The Moronic Inferno by Martin Amis
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion makers, leaders and crackpots with character ...Show more
All the Lonely People: Conversations on Loneliness by Sam Carr
$37.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Empathetic, enlightening, deeply human' Michael Harris, author of Solitude In stories of love and loss, of trauma and hope, told from care homes, living rooms, classrooms and kitchens, All the Lonely People is an intimate portrait of loneliness. Over countless cups of tea, psychologist Dr Sam Carr has c ...Show more
Kintsugi by Marie O'Rourke
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Category: Essays
These essays are a poignant reminder that some things cannot be fixed but can still hold immense beauty and meaning. All her life, Marie O'Rourke has been a Good Girl, a perfectionist, using words to apply golden seams to an imperfect life in an attempt to make something beautiful out of things that are ...Show more
Safe Space: My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope through community by Alyssa Huynh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A collection of essays and advice about navigating racism in modern Australia, and creating your own safe space, for those who have faced racial discrimination and their allies. I’ve played the role of the quiet and embarrassed Asian girl who shyly laughs along more than I should have in my lifetime. ...Show more
Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections by Jenny Erpenbeck
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Category: Essays
A collection of intimate and explosive essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from the award-winning author of Go, Went Gone and The End of Days.
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
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Category: Essays
What is the relationship between Marie Kondo and many modern novels? Why do we get addicted to stories - particularly when they're about serial killers? Seven years after #metoo, how can we have the sex we really want? Is it ok to think Troll 2 is a good film? In All Things Are Too Small, virtuoso ...Show more
Abominations - Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
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Category: Essays
The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case she's cancelled by Christmas' THE TIMES (Book of the Year)'You may disagree with Lionel Shriver's bracing journalism, bu ...Show more
Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a sensuous, immersive memoir thatexplores the trans experience through a sequence of beguiling fragments Lars Horn's Voice of the Fish, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, is akaleidoscopic, hallucinatory memoir that explores the trans experience ...Show more
The Vast Extent - On Seeing And Not Seeing Further by Lavinia Greenlaw
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Category: Essays
From the renowned poet, novelist and memoirist, and ingenious constellation of writings on light, image, seeing . . . and the unseen. From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is an ingenious constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each i ...Show more
The Trauma Chronicles by Stephen Westaby
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Category: Essays
'Never, never, never give in', Winston Churchill's famous quotation best sums up the life of Stephen Westaby, the world-leading cardiothoracic surgeon. This book chronicles the triumphs and failures of his surgical life, the lives saved and extended, the innovations (such as artificial hearts) he develo ...Show more
Why Sex Doesn't Matter by Olivia Fane
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Category: Essays
Olivia Fane addresses the politics, the obsessions, the misconceptions of one of the most important aspects of human existence.Is Sex Natural? Is Sex Dirty? Is Sex Loving? Is Sex about Beauty? Is Sex Political?This is a necessary and controversial book in these confused, self-obsessed, sex-obsessed and ...Show more