Close to the Subject : Selected Works by Daniel Browning
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning’s stellar career as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer. Alongside conversations wit ...Show more
Goodbye, Again - Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations by Jonny Sun
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The wonderfully original author of Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too gives us a collection of touching and hilarious personal essays, stories, poems--covering topics such as mental health, happiness, and what it means to belong. Jonny Sun is back with a collection of essays and other writings in ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions su ...Show more
Me, Her, Us by Yen-Rong Wong
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Memoir-essays from an award-winning writer, exploring race, sex, familial expectations, and identity. Raised by strict, religious, Malaysian Chinese parents in Brisbane's southern suburbs, Yen-Rong Wong internalised an idealised image of a Chinese-presenting girl at a young age. As she grew into young ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
$28.00 AUD
Category: Essays
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'Almost everybody I know has done it at least once. Some of my friends indulge on a regular basis. Women seem especially susceptible to giving it a go. I?ve been at it since I was at least five. What on earth do we imagine we?re doing??Many of us lack a talent for leisure. We are working longer hours as ...Show more
A House of Air: Selected Writings by Penelope Fitzgerald
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer - full of wit, feeling and illumination. Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer. She avoided the phone if she could, never even contemplated the possibility of going online. Her warmth, ...Show more
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP ACROSS THIS LINE From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey ...Show more
A Real Piece of Work: A Memoir in Essays by Erin Riley
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'Language gave to me the body I knew was mine and brought into existence so many possibilities for what my gender can be.' Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter most- family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and swimming, and the messy, hard g ...Show more
Red White and Blown Is the US a Cult? by Guy Rundle
$25.00 AUD
Category: Crikey Read | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
From renowned journalist Guy Rundle, Red, White and Blown is a piercing and provocative investigation into the United States' resolute failure to reckon with its own divisions and blind spots. Interrogating the political events of the 2022 midterm elections as well as their cultural and historical backd ...Show more
Prudish Nation by Paul Dalgarno
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
From its early settler days and Federation to the extreme literary censorship of the 20th century, from the 2017 Marriage Amendment Act to present-day morality and identity politics, it's tempting to ask- is 'fun-loving, laid-back' Australia actually a bit, well, prudish? Interviewing more than 30 Aust ...Show more
Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Collected for the first time celebrated author Ursula K. Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender. Witness to the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the civil rights movement and anti-war and environmental activism, Le Guin continued to fight for social and envi ...Show more