Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Since the publication of her groundbreaking books Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society - state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy - alongside more individually personal ma ...Show more
I Will Write To Avenge My People by Annie Ernaux
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Category: Essays
Published in book form for the first time, Annie Ernaux's Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm inDecember 2022, translated by Alison L. Strayer. WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diar ...Show more
Notes from the Henhouse: Collected Essays by Elspeth Barker
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Category: Essays | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
In Notes from the Henhouse, you will find: A Gothic castle, a draughty Norfolk farmhouse and a malevolent Aga A pet pig, Portia with a penchant for drama, an obsession with geraniums and an addiction to wine (the Bulgarian vintage) George Barker, poet and beloved husband, warbling cowboy songs into h ...Show more
Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
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Category: Essays
'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation'. Olivia Laing. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tribute ...Show more
Intervals by Marianne Brooker
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Category: Essays
What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. She made a workshop of herself and her surroundings, combining creativity and activism in inventive ways. ...Show more
W. E. H. Stanner: Selected Writings by W. E. H. Stanner
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Category: Essays
'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
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Category: Essays
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more
Abracadabra by Robert Dessaix
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Category: Essays
'The first time around these pieces were not widely heard or read. A roomful of festival-goers in Sydney or Penang or Ballarat could well have heard me hold forth on the subject of Enid Blyton, say, or kissing, it’s true, and a few of my newspaper articles – my feuilletons, as I’m calling them – may hav ...Show more
Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift by Charmian Clift
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Category: Essays
‘I know it’s a daring suggestion, but I’ll make it anyway.’ Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical and fearless, her essays seamlessly the personal and the political. In 1964, Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston returned to Australia after living and writing for many years i ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
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Category: Essays
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
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 Upstairs Delicatessen by Dwight Garner
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Category: Essays
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal classic. Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book you're holding is ...Show more