Judith Wright: Selected Writings by Judith Wright; Georgina Arnott (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays
This first-ever collection of Australian poet Judith Wright's nonfiction is a compelling portrait of a prescient voice on modern Australia. Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of the best-known Australian poets of her generation. Born into a pioneering bush family, her commitments to environmental protect ...Show more
Letters from Alcatraz - A Collection of Real Letters, Interviews, and Views from Al Capone, James Whitey Bulger, Mickey Cohen and Many Others... by Michael Esslinger
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays
REVISED, EXPANDED AND UPDATED (Special Edition). Letters from Alcatraz now includes a new chapter of author interviews with James "Whitey" Bulger, discussing his years on the Rock. Alcatraz Island was home to some of the nation's most notorious criminals including James "Whitey" Bulger, Al Capone, Micke ...Show more
Literary Cats by JUDITH ROBINSON, SCOTT PACK
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Category: Literary Essays
‘Everything you ever wanted to know about cats in books. A wonderful idea, beautifully executed.’ - Viv GroskopCats have provided the inspiration for an incredible range of fiction, memoir and poetry, from ancient myths and fables to much-loved children’s books, and from classic tales to contemporary no ...Show more
Melbourne Circle: Walking, Memory and Loss by Nick Gadd
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary Essays
Over two years, writer Nick Gadd and his wife Lynne circled the city of Melbourne on foot, starting at Williamstown and ending in Port Melbourne. Along the way they uncovered lost buildings, secret places and mysterious signs that told of forgotten stories and curious characters from the past. Soon afte ...Show more
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays by Siri Hustvedt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays
'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, Guardian Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longliste ...Show more
My Country: Stories, Essays & Speeches by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays
David Marr is the rarest of breeds- one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr's hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time. My Co ...Show more
No Document by Anwen Crawford
$26.95 AUD
Category: Literary Essays
No Document is an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and expansive, Anwen Crawford's book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artw ...Show more
Now More than Ever: Australia's ABC by David Anderson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Literary Essays | Series: In the National Interest
Disregard the critics. Australia’s ABC, at ninety years of age, is demonstrably more valuable to Australians now than it has ever been. The ABC’s home-grown Managing Director, David Anderson, gives us a rare insight into the ABC he knows intimately: a cultural powerhouse where Australian identity is cel ...Show more
On Freedom by Tory Shepherd
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: On Ser.
They're labelled as selfish, as 'deliberately barren', and sometimes as crazy old cat ladies, but increasingly women are choosing to be childfree. Over the next few decades couples without children are set to outnumber those who have them. Tory Shepherd looks at how women's freedom to choose motherhood ...Show more
On Helen Garner: Writers on Writers by Sean O'Beirne
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Category: Literary Essays
In a brilliantly argued and very personal essay, Sean O'Beirne looks at the whole of Helen Garner's writing life so far - from Monkey Grip to the recently published Diaries - while trying to come to terms with the demands, and the rewards, of Garner's extraordinary, radical individualism and honesty. In ...Show more
On Life's Lottery by Glyn Davis
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: On Ser.
Birth is a throw of the dice. The consequences last a lifetime.We like to think of Australia as the land of the 'fair go', a land of choice and equal opportunity. But behind the facade of meritocracy lies an uncomfortable truth: much of your life is already decided by the lottery of where you are born a ...Show more
On Money by Rick Morton
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: On Ser.
Money makes the world go round, but does it make us happy? Money is one of the most fraught subjects; it raises powerful emotions in all of us. Too much money often corrupts people - too little can make people feel desperate. Growing up in rural Queensland, journalist Rick Morton has known poverty ...Show more