Allnighter: Fiction That Burns at Both Ends by George Dunford
$22.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
New fiction meets pop culture in this collection that's all about getting postcards of your disappeared boyfriend, meeting Hemingway on the train, pretty exploding mosquito?s and winning the race to the mixing bowl. Drawing on writers across Australia this new collection of fiction captures some of the ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
$14.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Collecting two book-length essays, "A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas" is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist writing, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Mich ...Show more
Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson
$26.50 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't. Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, paintin ...Show more
An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger
$29.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule, according to the author, is that all the information must be verifiable. With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger ...Show more
Jungle,the by Upton Sinclair
$31.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounce ...Show more
Other Colours by Orhan Pamuk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
"Other Colours" is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art ...Show more
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
'On my desk sits a beautiful engraving, published in another century, that promises me: "Out of the chaos the future emerges in harmony and beauty." Promises and prayers contain their own kinds of answer, as consecrated aspiration. I need this one now...' In her new essay collection, written in the afte ...Show more
Mup Anthology Of Australian Colonial Gothic Fiction by Kenneth Gelder
$32.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Collects some of the best examples of Australian gothic short stories from colonial times. Demonic bird cries, grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate a colonial landscape which is the stuff of nightmare.
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger
$23.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A beautiful collection of fragments about time and space 'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless In our brief mortal lives, we are grinde ...Show more
Tolerance, Prejudice and Fear: Sydney Pen Voices The 3 Writers project by Christos Tsiolkas, Gideon Haigh, Alexis Wright
$24.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Three acclaimed writers explore the crucial issues facing contemporary Australia: fear, prejudice and tolerance.