Animal Joy - A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Nuar Alsadir
$28.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, v ...Show more
Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance by Eda Gunaydin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
That there is no easy translation for ‘awkward’ in other languages suggests that I’m only myself in English. This feels like a loss, because I’d like to think of myself as Turkish, too.There is a Turkish saying that one’s home is not where one is born, but where one grows full – doğduğun yer değil, doyd ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
$20.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, p ...Show more
Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill by A.A. Gill
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and his writing illuminated from the page. This book, the second posthumous collection of his journalism, brings together pieces from near and far. He was feroci ...Show more
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Radical Change by Noam Chomsky
$13.00 AUD
Category: Essays
In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the problems of our world today, as we stand in this period of monumental change, preparing for a more hopeful tomorrow. 'For the left, elections are a brief interlude in a life of real politics, a moment to ask whether it's worth taking ti ...Show more
Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss by Delia Falconer
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us – all the delicate networks that ...Show more
No Document by Anwen Crawford
$29.95 AUD
Category: 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
Watsonia: A Writing Life by Don Watson
$50.00 AUD
Category: Essays
No other writer has journeyed further into the soul of Australia and returned to tell the tale... Watsonia collects the fruits of a writing life. It covers everything from Australian bush humour to America gone berserk; from Don Bradman to Oscar Wilde; from Animal Farmto the Australian parliament. Wher ...Show more
Coventry by Rachel Cusk
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism ...Show more
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
$24.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days she could work a full 11 hour shift on 4 hours of sleep, change her shoes and put mascara on in the back of a moving cab and go from drinks to dinner to the club without a second thoug ...Show more
On Secrets (On Series) by Annika Smethurst
$17.00 AUD
Category: On Series | Series: On Ser.
On June 4, Federal Police raided the home of Walkley award-winning journalist Annika Smethurst, changing her life forever. Police claim they were investigating the publication of classified information, her employer called it a 'dangerous act of intimidation', Smethurst believes she was simply doing her ...Show more