The Young Man by Annie Ernaux; Alison L. Strayer (translator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literature
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." -Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle "Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigor ...Show more
W. E. H. Stanner: Selected Writings by W. E. H. Stanner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined ...Show more
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...Show more
A Therapeutic Library: 100 Essential Books That Teach Fulfilment, Calm and Wellbeing by The School of Life
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment. Books, however familiar, are amongst the strangest objects on the planet: little portals that open directly into the ideas, feelings, loves and sorrows of writers from all times and places. ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her waywa ...Show more
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92 by Alan Kohler
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
The School of Life: Collected Essays by The School of Life
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literature
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles; Fagles (trans)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.Collected here are Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at ...Show more
House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal by Ellen Parnavelas
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people. 'If you want a book in English that tells you about Nepalese thinking, and gives a taste of the country's contemporary literature, you could hardly do better ...Show more
The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems by David Brooks
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning new work of poetry combined with a selection of the best of David Brooks' award-winning career A bottle of Romanee Conti sells for $785,000, while bodies are dug by hand from earthquake rubble in Indonesia because the local government couldn't afford the earth-moving equipment to do so while ...Show more