The Years by Annie Ernaux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Shortlisted Man Booker International 2019 Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of workWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008, and ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: 2022 02 Feb New Release
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a cl ...Show more
Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk by Dominic Gordon
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A wild ride through a disaffected youth by a gifted writer. Dominic Gordon explores his memories in tight prose bursting with insight, audacious ideas and dark humour. What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds ...Show more
Styles Of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics "The Aesthetics of Silence", a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and "Trip to Hanoi", written during the Vietnam War. Here too is an excoriating acco ...Show more
How to Make a Basket by Jazz Money
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award. the end of the world was marked with beautiful light we should have known Simmering with protest and boundless love, Jazz Money's David Unaipon Award-winning collection, how to make a basket, examines the tensio ...Show more
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Americanah, "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama). In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers ...Show more
Oppositions - Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.
Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
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
A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material ...Show more
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
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Category: 2022 03 March New Release
Reflections on reading and writing from the author of My Brilliant Friend. 'Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world.' - The Sunday Times A delightful collection of essays exploring reading and writing from the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilli ...Show more
Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Pre-read / Used. Fair to Good Condition. inscription in front cover. spine creasing. He raises hackles or receives resounding cheers, he's loved or hated but never ignored. Christopher Hitchens is possibly the most provocative writer of our time, fearless and forthright with no subject off limits. T ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more