Writing Life
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Who else, but a writer, is really able to interrogate the work of other writers? From Christina Stead, Les Murray and Patrick White to Proust, Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte, David Malouf reads and examines the work of writers who have challenged, inspired and entertained us for generations. He also e ...Show more
Fables Queer and Familiar by Margaret Merrilees
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Is your phone smarter than you are? Why does the weather map turn purple, and how do you protect your tomatoes when it does? And just what do you do with a lesbian grandmother? Fables Queer and Familiar is a wry, affectionate look at the lives of two lesbian grannies, their friends, family and community ...Show more
Australian Love Stories (Short Stories) by Cate Kennedy
$28.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
There are imaginary lovers, unattainable lovers, star-crossed lovers and predestined lovers. There is straight love, same sex love and some very curious love. And Love's attendants - cupid, lust, obsession, and betrayal - dance through this volume that contributes to the growing tradition of Australian ...Show more
Best Australian Poems 2014 by Geoff Page
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
'From London, some ten years ago, Clive James opined that we are living in "a golden age of Australian poetry." The quality of work between these covers suggests that Clive might still be right.' -Geoff Page In The Best Australian Poems 2014, award-winning poet Geoff Page compiles an anthology that ...Show more
The First Dismissal by Luke Slattery
$9.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Penguin Specials
While violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, far away in New South Wales, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of the 'fair go'. Macquarie was a reformer and an emancipator. He believed that a person's worth - be they gentry, infantry or convict - lay in ...Show more
Griffith Review 48: Enduring Legacies by Julianne Schultz
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Griffith REVIEW
'As a civil, pluralistic, liberal and democratic society, Australia did not pass the test of the crisis brought about by the war in Europe. The country suffered a setback in its political culture from which it did not recover until long after the next world war.' Gerhard Fische In the year that marks th ...Show more
When the Facts Change by Tony Judt
$65.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century, spanning a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement. Edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans. Tony Judt's first collection of essays, Re ...Show more
Macbeth (Arden Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: The Arden Shakespeare
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied tragedies. This major new Arden edition offers students detailed on-page commentary notes highlighting meaning and theatrical ideas and themes, as well as an illustrated, lengthy introduction setting the play in its historical, theatrical and cr ...Show more
Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow: Short Black 12 by Galarrwuy Yunupingu
$6.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Short Blacks
I will continue my work on my land, building a future. It is the only thing that is certain to me now and I want to advance while I can. I am trying to light the fire in our young men and women. We are setting fires to our own lives as we really should, and the flame will burn and intensify - an immense ...Show more
Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism, and Creative Nonfiction Exercises Fom Todays Best Writers and Teachers by Sherry Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
An essential handbook for nonfiction writers, featuring the trusted personal writing exercises of today's masters of creative non-fiction, including Gay Talese, Reza Aslan, John Matteson, Tilar Mazzeo, and many more! Beginners and seasoned writers alike will relish the opportunity to use the top-notch ...Show more
Best Australian Essays 2015 by Geordie Williamson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
In The Best Australian Essays 2015, Geordie Williamson compiles the year's outstanding short non-fiction. Read Helen Garner on condescension, DBC Pierre on travel, Ceridwen Dovey on autobiography, Tim Winton on injury, Anna Krien on first love, and Nicolas Rothwell on the northern coast. With bracing es ...Show more
Macbeth (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
$15.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: No Fear Shakespeare Ser.
This tragedy tells of a power-hungry Scottish nobleman and his lady, and the price they pay for violently seizing the royal throne. Books in this new, illustrated series present complete texts of Shakespeare's plays. However, the lines are set up so students can see the bard's original poetic phrases pr ...Show more