An Ordinary Magic by Anna Foletta; Tilda Foletta (Illustrator)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
an ordinary magic is Anna Foletta's first book of original poetry and is a powerful and vulnerable exploration of the world around her. This book is a raw and intimate collection of musings, exploring the journey of finding magic in the perfect wonderfulness of ordinary life. It offers a deeply personal ...Show more
Unquiet by Linn Ullmann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters' RACHEL CUSK He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, by the actress he directed and once loved. Each summer of her childho ...Show more
Wild: Poems by Ben Okri
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist and poet, Ben Okri, explores the beauty contained in each one of us - the freedom of our spirit, the child ...Show more
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
One of our most beloved scientists, a fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, he follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage through science, literature, philosophy and politics.Written w ...Show more
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)
$27.99 AUD
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