Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers by Helen Elliott
34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
An anthology of essays by twenty-four Australian women, edited by Helen Elliott, about the many aspects of being a grandmother in the 21st century. It seems so different from the experience we had of our grandmothers. Although perhaps the human essential, love, hasn't shifted much? In thoughtful, provok ...Show more
The Flame by Leonard Cohen
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an intim ...Show more
Runaway by Alice Munro
22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. Here are men and w ...Show more
The River in the Sky by Clive James
22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'One of the most important and influential writers of our time' Sunday TimesClive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Sentenced to Life, he was clear-sighted as he faced the end, honest about his regrets. In Inju ...Show more
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators by Yu Chen, Regina Kanyu Wang
32.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction
An Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end ...Show more
Essays on World Literature : Aeschylus, Dante, Shakespeare by Ismail Kadare (trans. Ani Kokobobo)
9.99 AUD
29.99 (66% off)
Category: Essays
Description: The Man Booker International-winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania's most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare explores three giants of world literature - Aeschylus, Dante, and Shakespeare - through the lens of resisting totalitarianism. Revi ...Show more
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This elegant hardback edition presents Emily Dickinson's best loved work, featuring a silver-embossed cover design, gilded page edges and beautiful patterned endpapers. A deeply personal collection of poetry, the raw emotion and mastery of Emily Dickinson's poems cannot be denied. Her unique style ...Show more
Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood
22.99 AUD
27.99 (17% off)
Category: Poetry
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects ...Show more
Intimations - Six Essays by Zadie Smith
12.99 AUD
Category: Essays
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
TAKE CARE: Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Eunice Andrada
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Category: Poetry
TAKE CARE explores what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness. Bound in personal testimony, the poems situate the act of rape within the machinery of imperialism, where human and non-human bodies, lands, and waters are violated to uphold colonial powers. Andrada explores the mag ...Show more
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
24.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Following on from last year's Yellow Notebook, Helen Garner's much-anticipated second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the furore th ...Show more
A Short Affair by Simon Oldfield
9.99 AUD
22.99 (56% off)
Category: Short Stories | Series: An Anthology
'A dazzling anthology uniting the written word with the visual' STEPHEN FRY A Short Affair is a vibrant anthology that combines the best of original short fiction with remarkable work by contemporary artists from the Royal Academy Schools. In this visually stunning collection from Pin Drop, the reno ...Show more