Tales from Shakespeare: Illustrated Edition by William Shakespeare
$29.95 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions Ser.
'We are such stuff as dreams are made on…' While the language of William Shakespeare's plays can make them challenging for some readers, their plots are filled with fantastical, almost fairytale-like plot devices — misunderstandings involving identical twins, magical forests, ghosts and witches, and ...Show more
Letter to My Younger Self: 100 Inspiring People on the MomentsThat Shaped Their Lives by Jane Graham (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good
From The Big Issue's popular section, this collection features 100 remarkable people from the worlds of entertainment, politics, food, sport and business writing letters to their younger selves.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSIf a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to a ...Show more
The Flame by Leonard Cohen
$29.99 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
The Iliad: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition | Reading Level: very good
One of the epics in Western literature, "The Iliad" recounts the story of the Trojan wars. In his introduction, the author observes that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it co-exists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.
The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Monkey's Mask is a totally unique experience. It's poetry. It's a crime thriller. It's where high art meets low life, passion meets betrayal, and poetry faces profanity on the streets of a harsh modern city. Dorothy Porter's internationally bestselling verse novel holds you in its grip from the firs ...Show more
On Helen Garner: Writers on Writers by Sean O'Beirne
$17.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In a brilliantly argued and very personal essay, Sean O'Beirne looks at the whole of Helen Garner's writing life so far - from Monkey Grip to the recently published Diaries - while trying to come to terms with the demands, and the rewards, of Garner's extraordinary, radical individualism and honesty. In ...Show more
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling: First Nations Classics by Larissa Behrendt, Fiona Foley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island off the Queensland coast in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt uses Eliza's tale as a s ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 82, No 4
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Summer warms us, brings us together, opens our hearts. Meanjin's writers began 2023 imploring us to get our house in order and prepare for what comes next. At the end of this momentous year, Australia's journal of record offers that perfect art-fiction focus to accompany all your summer adventures. We b ...Show more
Wild Embers: Poems of rebellion, fire and beauty by Nikita Gill
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A stunning collection of poetry on feminism, trauma, survival and empowerment. You cannot burn away What has always been aflame WILD EMBERS explores the fire that lies within every soul, weaving words around ideas of feeling at home in your own skin, allowing yourself to heal and learning to embrace you ...Show more
Credo: Selected Essays by Imants Tillers
$26.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Credo brings together essays from different stages in Imants Tillers’ career, from ‘Locality Fails’ to ‘Metafisica Australe’ and ‘Journey to Nowhere’, and closes with an essay written especially for the collection, ‘The Sources’, on the artists and writers he has drawn on in his art. These essays expres ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet : Little Black Classic by Rainer Maria Rilke
$7.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a ...Show more