Why Read by Will Self
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature.
Wandering with Intent: essays by Kim Mahood
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Category: Essays & Letters
To essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt -- and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life. In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Aust ...Show more
Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on ...Show more
Intimations - Six Essays by Zadie Smith
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about th ...Show more
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer
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Category: Essays & Letters
In this endlessly stimulating investigation into 'things coming to an end, artists' last works, time running out', Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who've mattered to him throughout his life. ...Show more
Kintsugi by Marie O'Rourke
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Category: Essays & Letters
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
Gladys: A Leader's Undoing by Paul Farrell
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Gladys Berejiklian was one of Australia's most popular premiers. Forging a path for New South Wales through the difficult early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, she seemed unstoppable. But it all came crashing down. In one of the most staggering falls from grace in Australian political history, Berejiklia ...Show more
Simple Act of Reading by Debra Adelaide
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Category: Essays & Letters
For it is in the simple act of reading where the living and the dead, the real and the imagined, meet. It is in the simple act of reading where we exercise those two most sacred of human vocations: compassion and creativity. For as we know, without either of these primes there is no possibility for a hu ...Show more
From the Heart Women of Letters by Marieke Hardy
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Category: Essays & Letters
'Letters, we have witnessed firsthand, stir some unusually beautiful things in people,' write Women of Letters curators Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire. In From the Heart, the full power of letter-writing is on display. Rock star Amanda Palmer thanks a song for reminding her of the importance of musi ...Show more
Conversations with Dickens: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts by Paul Schlicke
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Category: Essays & Letters
Sheltering from a summer downpour, you encounter the ghost of Charles Dickens. Join him for a chat in the inn beloved by Mr Pickwick and be swept away by his vigour, warmth and humanity. You'll feel as if you've known him all your life. The great novelist Charles Dickens attracted international adulati ...Show more
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write - An Autobiography Through Essays by Claire Messud
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Category: Essays & Letters
Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal essays - reflections on a childhood divided between cultures, and between dueling models of womanhood. It is here, in these early years, that we see the seeds of Messud's inquiry into th ...Show more
Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
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Category: Essays & Letters
From the author of The Empathy Exams comes a profound meditation on isolation, longing and the conflicts faced by all those who choose to tell true stories about the lives of others