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A Hundred Small Lessons by Ashley Hay
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
When Elsie Gormley falls and is forced to leave her Brisbane home of 62 years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, with their new life - new house, new city, new baby. Lucy and her husband Ben struggle to navigate their transformation from adventurous lovers to new parents and both seek to smooth the roug ...Show more
A Hundred Small Lessons by Ashley Hay
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Through the richly intertwined narratives of two women from different generations, Ashley Hay, known for her "elegant prose, which draws warm and textured portraits as it celebrates the web of human stories" (New York Times Book Review) weaves an intricate, bighearted tale of the many small decisions--t ...Show more
Best Australian Science Writing 2014 by Ashley Hay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year. Why are Sydney's golden orb weaver spiders getting fatter and fitter? Could sociology explain the recent upsurge in prostate cancer diagnoses? Why were Darwinites craving a good storm during 'The Angry Summer'? Is it tr ...Show more
Body in the Clouds by Ashley Hay
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The story of one extraordinary moment, a man falling from the sky, and surviving, and of three men who see it, in different ways and different times, as they stand on the same piece of land. An astronomer in the late 1700s, a bridgeworker in the 1930s, an expatriate banker returning home in the early 21 ...Show more
Griffith Review 63 - Writing the Country by Ashley Hay; Julianne Schultz
$27.99 AUD
Category: Business | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
How we speak of and to the world we live in requires us to make sense of where we are and where we?re going; it requires us to describe, interrogate and analyse our places from the smallest to the grandest of scales.In the second issue of Griffith Review, published fifteen years ago, Melissa Lucashenko ...Show more
Griffith Review 65: Crimes and Punishments by Ashley Hay (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
What is it about crime stories that make people hunger for them? The volume of content produced in these genres - from the pages of mysteries and thrillers to audio and visual dramas and reconstructions - hints at a primal and deeply ingrained fascination with the darker side of human nature. While crim ...Show more
Griffith Review 66: The Novella Project VII by Ashley Hay
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Griffith Review'sseventh annual edition dedicated to the novella eschews a set theme to showcase work across a spectrum of subjects. Open to both fiction and creative non-fiction, Griffith Review'sdedication to the novella form has been hailed by Nick Earls as central to the revival of the form in Austr ...Show more
Griffith Review 67: Matters of Trust by Ashley Hay
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
From our first experiences to our last, institutions structure our world - through education and medicine to politics, justice, civics and religion. But in recent years even the most entrenched of institutions are seemingly on the edge of implosion. Either through deliberate political attacks or as an e ...Show more
Griffith Review 68: Getting On by Ashley Hay
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
In a world where seventy is the new fifty, old age isn't what it used to be.By 2060, the ratio of Australians aged over sixty-five will have passed one in four. This unprecedented demographic transformation marks a quiet revolution with far-reaching consequences for both individuals and wider society.As ...Show more
Griffith Review 69: The European Exchange by Ashley Hay (Editor); Natasha Cica (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Europe has been thrown into sharp relief by the impact of a devastating pandemic. As country after country succumbs to the contemporary plague, deeply buried memories of death and destruction resurface.But Europe has emerged from devastation before, and become stronger and more connected. A year ago Fre ...Show more
Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit by Hay Ashley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Business
Is empathy, like water, in increasingly short supply?Now more than ever we need empathy, and Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit explores and celebrates generosities and kindnesses, those uplifting and memorable experiences that illuminate our lives. Featuring inspiring despatches from the frontl ...Show more
Griffith Review 72: States of Mind by Hay Ashley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
Ask yourself this: What state am I in? And how much is it a reaction to the state of the world today?Griffith Review 72: States of Mind examines the ways we think about our psychological, existential and political condition. Anxiety and depression are on the rise in Australia and across the globe. Digit ...Show more