The Nearest Thing to Life by James Wood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives, and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivi ...Show more
Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
Small Acts of Disappearance describes the author's affliction with an eating disorder which begins in university, and escalates into life-threatening anorexia over the next ten years. Fiona Wright is a highly regarded poet and critic, and her account of her illness is informed by a keen sense of its con ...Show more
There It Is Again: Selected Non-Fiction by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
Historian, essayist, speechwriter, humourist, anti-cant crusader; Don Watson has a gift for luring us to the nub of a matter, or at least to a new view of it, there to grin or grind our teeth at the spectacle. Over the years Don Watson has written on politics and politicians in Australia and the USA, sp ...Show more
On Borrowed Time by Robert Manne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
A stunning new collection of essays from Australia's leading public intellectual. In On Borrowed Time, Manne applies his brilliant mind to the topics that have shaped our world over the last five years, including climate change, the media, Australia's asylum seeker policy and Wikileaks. This provocative ...Show more
Books for Living: A Reader's Guide to Life by Will Schwalbe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
From the author of the international bestseller The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the enduring power of books - a must for all passionate book lovers, exploring books as diverse as The Girl on the Train, The Little Prince and David Copperfield.'I've always believed ...Show more
On Quiet by Nikki Gemmell
$14.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
International bestselling author Nikki Gemmell writes on the power of quiet in today's shouty world. Quiet comes as a shock in these troubled times. Quietism means 'devotional contemplation and abandonment of the will a a calm acceptance of things as they are'. Gemmell makes the case for why quiet is st ...Show more
En Garde by Sarah Hanson-Young
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Category: Essays & Letters
When Sarah Hanson-Young called out the abuse she received from male parliamentarians as slut-shaming, she sparked a national conversation about the rampant sexism in politics. Placing the responsibility on women to defend themselves is the same cheap trick as asking, why didn’t she just fight back? Afte ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 72: Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age by Sebastian Smee
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: QUARTERLY ESSAY 72 | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What is the inner life? And is it vanishing in the digital age? Throughout history, artists and philosophers have cultivated the deep self, and seen value in solitudeand reflection. But today, through social media, wall-to-wall marketing, reality television and theagitation of modern life, everything f ...Show more
Freeman's - Power by John Freeman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Freeman's Ser.
From the voices of protestors to the encroachment of a new fascism, everywhere we look power is revealed. This thought-provoking issue of the acclaimed literary annual Freeman'sexplores who gets to say what matters in a time of social upheaval. Margaret Atwood posits it's time to update the gender of w ...Show more
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time.‘Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning o ...Show more
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
$27.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
The extraordinary #1 bestseller - a word-of-mouth literary phenomenon 'Do not read this book in public: it will make you cry' Anne Enright 'Every line pulses with the pain and joy and complexity of an extraordinary life' Mark O'Connell 'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disr ...Show more
City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest by Sophie Cunningham
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Category: Essays & Letters
How do we take in the beauty of our planet while processing the losses? What trees can survive in the city? Which animals can survive in the wild? How do any of us-humans, animals, trees-find a forest we can call home? In these moving, thought-provoking essays Sophie Cunningham considers the meaning of ...Show more