Mind the Country: Tim Winton's Fiction by Salhia Ben-Messahel
39.95 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The book is divided into three parts. The first looks at the themes in Winton's novels and the nature of the Wintonian character: a rootless being wandering in a hostile geographic and social space a fragmented but unique universe. The main themes are: family tales, loneliness, emptiness and voids, and ...Show more
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
19.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
George Orwell's essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is obscured by vague, cliched phrases and hackneyed metaphors. In it ...Show more
Twelfth Night: Illustrated by Eric Ravilious by William Shakespeare
49.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
A stunning facsimile of the 1932 edition of Twelfth Night illustrated by Eric Ravilious. Together with a newly commissioned introduction, this book includes a facsimile of one of Eric Ravilious’s finest illustrated works, first published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1932 in a limited print run and no ...Show more
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya
29.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST "Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells you to cheer up, but, by offering gentle companionship and a change of perspective, makes you feel bette ...Show more
Dinner with Joseph Johnson - Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age by Daisy Hay
29.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022*'Hugely engrossing... An exciting blend of ideas and personalities' John Carey, Sunday Times'As immersive and engaging as a multi-plot Victorian novel' Times Literary Supplement'Impressive... An elegant account... Dinner with Joseph Johnson reminds us of th ...Show more
Time, Tide and History - Essays on the Writing of Eleanor Dark by Brigid Rooney (Editor); Fiona Morrison (Editor)
60.00 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Time, Tide and History: Essays on the Writing of Eleanor Dark is the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark's fiction, advancing a recent revival of critical and scholarly interest in Dark's writing. This volume not only establishes a new view of ...Show more
Globetrotting : Writers Walk the World by Duncan Minshull
39.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
In Globetrotting: Writers Walk the World the UK's 'laureate of walking' Duncan Minshull brings together the recorded footfalls of more than fifty walker-writers who have travelled the world's seven continents. Following on from the success of Beneath My Feet - Writers on Walking and Sauntering - Writers ...Show more
Massimo Listri The Worlds Most Beautiful Libraries by Elisabeth Sladek, Georg Ruppelt
50.00 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space, the collection of knowledge, learning, and imagination offers a sense of infinite p ...Show more
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh
34.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Was Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might think . . . Shakespeare's work was profoundly influenced by the queer culture of his time - much of it totally integrated into mainstream society. From a relentless schooling in Latin and Greek homoeroticism, to a less form ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDYRestless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's career was shor ...Show more
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict by Andrew Pettegree
55.00 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Propaganda, pulp fiction, spies and censorship: the fascinating and action-packed story of books in wartime 'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.' David Kyna ...Show more
History of the World Map by Map by DK
65.00 AUD
Category: History
Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map. Come on a journey through global history, told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer a window on a key event. Step into the action and ...Show more