Drama Games for Classrooms and Workshops by Jessica Swale
$23.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Drama Games Ser.
A resource book, packed with 101 lively drama games for use in any classroom or workshop setting, suitable for players of all ages. These games explore a wide range of core drama skills: energy, focus, teamwork, trust, character, storytelling, imagination, and improvisation, as well as warming up and co ...Show more
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time by Robert McCrum
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The author's choice of the 100 best nonfiction books in English spanning 400 years. Each entry has a two page critique of the book in question.
Fire Flood Plague: Australian Writers Respond to This Extraordinary Year by Sophie Cunningham ed.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a ...Show more
This Is Why I Resist by Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
This book is the hard conversation we must have. Black people are still fighting for the right to be judged by the content of their character and not the colour of their skin, and in the words of the author, "there is no freedom without rights and no rights without the freedom to exercise those rights." ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading - Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books by Jennie Orchard (Curated by); Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris; William Boyd; Candice Carty-Williams; Chigozie Obioma; Philip Pullman; Imtiaz Dharker; Roddy Doyle; Pico Iyer; Andy Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayist ...Show more
Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit by Hay Ashley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Is empathy, like water, in increasingly short supply?Now more than ever we need empathy, and Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit explores and celebrates generosities and kindnesses, those uplifting and memorable experiences that illuminate our lives. Featuring inspiring despatches from the frontl ...Show more
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
From the author of the critically acclaimed and globally successful The Phantom Atlas, The Golden Atlas and The Sky Atlas comes a stunning new work. The Madman's Library is a unique, beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of literature, delving into its darkest territories to hunt do ...Show more
Lydia Davis - Essays by Lydia Davis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: near fine
Lydia Davis's writing is a masterclass in control- wry, lucid, penetrating, every word placed deliberately. Here she presents a dazzling collection of literary essays, each one as beautifully formed, thought-provoking, playful and illuminating as her critically acclaimed short fiction. Ranging across he ...Show more
More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
How to be an older woman? Who knows. Being a young woman can be challenging. But it turns out not even a fraction of the bullshit has happened to you by the time you turn thirty. Because your thirties, forties and beyond see you dealing with Real Life, the stuff you never thought would happen to you- gr ...Show more
Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and brilliant pieces from one of America's most significant left-leaning journalists and activists. A self-proclaimed 'myth buster by trade', over her long-ranging career as a journalist and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich has delved with devastatin ...Show more
The Dancing Face: Black Britain: Writing Back by Mike Phillips
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Black Britain: Writing Back Ser.
University lecturer Gus knows that stealing the priceless Benin mask, The Dancing Face, from a museum at the heart of the British establishment will gain an avalanche of attention.Which is exactly what he wants.But such a risky theft will also inevitably capture the attention of characters with more mon ...Show more