Griffith Review 72: States of Mind by Hay Ashley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Ask yourself this: What state am I in? And how much is it a reaction to the state of the world today?Griffith Review 72: States of Mind examines the ways we think about our psychological, existential and political condition. Anxiety and depression are on the rise in Australia and across the globe. Digit ...Show more
Tree Story by Charlotte Day (Editor); Melissa Ratliff (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Monash University Museum of Modern Art Ser.
Tree Story brings together creative practices from around the world to create a 'forest' of ideas relating to critical environmental and sustainability issues. At its foundation--or roots--are Indigenous ways of knowing and a recognition of trees as our ancestors and family. The major international grou ...Show more
A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to accept what growing up means; it's about the small dishonest pacts that people make with their own futures; and it's about the rare and joyous refusal to be disillusioned. Everyone remembers what it's like to be seventeen. The conversati ...Show more
The Open: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Lucy Van
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Introduction by Merlinda Bobis. All doors are open in Lucy Van's poetry. Ingress and egress are multiple, even coincident. We've just touched what's here, or are about to touch it, when apprehension is quickly uns ...Show more
Martha Lloyd's Household Book: The Original Manuscript from Jane Austen's Kitchen by GEHRER JULIENNE
$59.99 AUD
Category: Literature
This is the first facsimile publication of 'Martha Lloyd's Household Book', the manuscript cookbook of Jane Austen's closest friend. Martha's notebook is reproduced in a colour facsimile section with complete transcription and detailed annotation. Introductory chapters discuss its place among other hous ...Show more
On Quiet by Nikki Gemmell
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
International bestselling author Nikki Gemmell writes on the power of quiet in today's shouty world.Quiet comes as a shock in these troubled times.Quietism means 'devotional contemplation and abandonment of the will ... a calm acceptance of things as they are'. Gemmell makes the case for why quiet is st ...Show more
Griffith Review 73: Hey, Utopia! by Ashley Hay (Editor)
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Category: Literature
Coined by Sir Thomas More in the sixteenth century, the word ‘utopia’ is a play on the Greek for no place and good place. But is an ideal society unattainable — or optimal?This edition of Griffith Review visits utopias old and new, near and far, to explore the possibilities and pitfalls of imagining a b ...Show more
Last Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane
$26.95 AUD
Category: Literature
A final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as ‘a genius on the level of Beckett’.A book which will appeal equally to Murnane’s legion of fans, and to those new to his work, a ...Show more
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literature
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, the father of science fiction, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H.G Wells' life shape a fantastic writer into a visionary? Claire Tomalin's remarkable and empathetic biography, focusing on HG Wells' early l ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 80, No 3 by Jonathan Green
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'I've never been too impressed with the metaphoric mountain-top that Black race scholars and civil rights activists have typically been concerned with, of a promised land and a dream . . . As appealing as it sounds I don't believe that such a world will ever be possible in a settler colonial state . . . ...Show more
Blood Relations by Sandy Jeffs
$21.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
These poems are an evocative documentation of the harrowing experiences of a child living in a hostile and unhappy home. Pain and bitterness accompany the conflicting emotions of growing up in a family torn apart by domestic violence and alcoholism.