The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History by Rachel Smith, Barbara Vesey
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Category: Literary Essays
An intimate and inspiring collection of letters revealing some of the greatest queer love stories in history. A good love letter can speak across centuries, and reassure us that the agony and the ecstasy one might feel today have been shared by lovers long gone. In The Love That Dares, queer love speak ...Show more
The One Day by David Malouf
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: Short Blacks (Number 7) | Reading Level: very good
'Silence was a deeply established tradition. Men used it as a form of self-protection; it saved those who had experienced the horrors of war from the emotional trauma of experiencing it all over again in the telling. And it saved women and children, back home, from the terrible knowledge of what they ha ...Show more
The Outcast and the Rite - Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-38 by Helen de Guerry Simpson
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: The\Weirds Ser.
The Australian novelist and playwright Helen de Guerry Simpson (1897-1940) published many supernatural short stories. This new edition selects the best of her unsettling writing, adding some little-known stories to her 1925 collection The Baseless Fabric (1925). Featured stories include: 'An Experime ...Show more
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath; Karen V. Kukil (ed.)
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Category: Literary Essays
The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath-essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet's life and work. Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact an ...Show more
The Writing Life by David Malouf
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Category: Literary Essays
Who else, but a writer, is really able to interrogate the work of other writers? From Christina Stead, Les Murray and Patrick White to Proust, Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte, David Malouf reads and examines the work of writers who have challenged, inspired and entertained us for generations. He also e ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
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Category: Literary 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
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
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Category: Literary Essays
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
Wandering with Intent: essays by Kim Mahood
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Category: Literary Essays
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
Watsonia: A Writing Life by Don Watson
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Category: Literary Essays
No other writer has journeyed further into the soul of Australia and returned to tell the tale... Watsonia collects the fruits of a writing life. It covers everything from Australian bush humour to America gone berserk; from Don Bradman to Oscar Wilde; from Animal Farmto the Australian parliament. Wher ...Show more
Writing Life
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays
Who else, but a writer, is really able to interrogate the work of other writers? From Christina Stead, Les Murray and Patrick White to Proust, Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte, David Malouf reads and examines the work of writers who have challenged, inspired and entertained us for generations. He also e ...Show more
Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 by Various
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Category: Literary Essays
A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving ...Show more