Weird but Normal - Essays by Mia Mercado
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Birth control. Body hair removal cream. Boobs. It's all weird, but also pretty normal. Navigating racial identity, gender roles, workplace dynamics, and beauty standards, Mia Mercado's hilarious essay collection explores the contradictions of being a millennial woman, which usually means being kind of ...Show more
Bronte Sisters: Life, Loss and Literature by Catherine Rayner
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Trailblazing Women
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall...these fictional masterpieces are all recognised as landmarks of English Literature. Still inspirational and challenging to readers today, upon release in the mid-nineteenth century they caused a veritable sensation, chiefly due to their subject ...Show more
F**k the Establishment - 101 Ways to Get Your Voice Heard and Change the World by The F. Team
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Category: Literary Studies
A helpful and positive illustrated guide to exacting the change in the world you want to see, using the tools you already have at your disposal. The mood in the world right now isn't good. Some of us might be feeling let down by our governments, or watching the rich and poor divide increase, or losing ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2020 by André Aciman (Editor); Robert Atwan (Editor)
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays selected by Andr Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. Andr Aciman "quite simply, one of the finest essayists of the last hundred years" (Los Angeles Review of Books) and one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, selects th ...Show more
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$9.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Americanah, "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama). In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
How Many More Women?: Exposing how the law silences women by Jennifer Robinson, Keina Yoshida
$36.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
This book is about a movement. A movement made up of women and men around the world who are no longer afraid to speak out about violence, abuse, harassment, sexism, abuse of power and patriarchy. A movement which started with the courage of a number of women in the media and advertising industries and h ...Show more
Meander, Spiral, Explode - Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison
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Category: Literary Studies
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 One of Poets & Writers' Best Books for Writers "How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read. . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in nature, and by defining these new styles she offers writers the freedom ...Show more
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
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Category: Literary Studies
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You. This is not an advice book. Samantha Irby doesn't know anything. Irby is working in Chicago when the pandemic hits. After fleeing the city and returning home to Michigan, she finds herself bleaching groceries and wondering if her uppe ...Show more
Shakespeare On The Double! Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
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Category: Literary Studies
End your struggle with the Bard's prose and indulge in a romantic comedy that's better than a soap opera. Shakespeare on the Double! Twelfth Night includes an easy-to-understand modern English translation alongside the original Shakespearian text so that you can read only the translation, read the trans ...Show more
Freeman's: Family: The Best New Writing on Family by John Freeman
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Category: Literary Studies
"Freeman's: Family" is the second literary anthology in the series reviewers are calling bold ("Minneapolis Star-Tribune") and refreshing (Chicago Literati). Following a debut issue on the theme of Arrival, Freeman circles a new topic whose definition is constantly challenged by the best of our writers: ...Show more
Best Australian Comedy Writing 2 by Luke Ryan (Editor)
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Category: Literary Studies
'...Comedy writing is a tough art. It requires concision, precision and an intuitive sense of how the reader is going to formulate your sentences in their mind. It needs a poet's grasp of language, an encyclopaedic knowledge of culture, high and low, and a vast array of euphemisms for embarrassing bodil ...Show more