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When the pandemic hit Australia, and Victoria in particular, a then-unknown blog called The Shot emerged through the haze as a voice of reason, comfort, hope and swear words. As...

With humour, wisdom and tenderness, Ann Packer offers ten short stories about women and men--wives and husbands, sisters and brothers, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, friends, and lovers--who discover that life's...

Whether you're a veteran grandmother or a Granny-to-be, this collection of stories will warm your heart and make you laugh about the universal experiences of being a grandmother. This book...

Reports and dispatches from Ireland's finest writers: the first-ever anthology of Irish reportage. Alongside its world-famous tradition of great fiction, Ireland has a less well known but thrilling tradition of...

The first anthology of Australian women's speculative fiction, magic realism and fantasy A pregnant spaceman. A witch. A knight-errant princess. The nuns of St Mary Magdalene. A time-traveller. Love and...

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads...

Most readers associate fairy tales with the work of Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers, collectors of those traditional and much-loved folk tales retold to each new generation of children....

Coming to you from the barrels and breaks of Mexico, Australia and Fiji, these six pieces of narrative non-fiction invite you into the world of surf culture. A book that...

George Canning describes his maiden speech in 1974, Benjamin Disraeli the vote that brought down Sir Robert Peel's administration in 1845. William Jerdan witnesses the assassination of a prime minister,...

The book titled Description of a Struggle: Picador Book of Contemporary East European by the author Michael March. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

In this highly amusing collection of anecdotes, Chris Wallace-Crabbe brings together 270 tales of Australian literary life from penal times to the present day.

Millennium Eyewitness is a fascinating look at the last 1000 years. This anthology comprises over 250 eyewitness accounts of historical events and vanished ways of life throughout the world. What...

Black Lace - the leading erotic imprint for women Wicked Words - a collection of saucy and compelling short stories A uniform can make a man irresistible, especially if he's...

The acclaimed BARCELONA PLATES revealed Alexei Sayle as a writer with an outstanding ability to describe contemporary life in an unusual way. Now, in his new collection THE DOG CATCHER,...

This classic collection includes the title story, acclaimed as Asimov's single finest Robot tale, and now made into a Hollywood movie starring Robin Williams. Each of the eleven stories here...

Gilmore Girls hit our screens in 2000 and has been our autumn obsession ever since. There's a reason that Vogue calls it ' the quintessential autumn girl show' and that,...

The Mountie always gets his man. He asserts the law not by using violence but by denying it. He is a uniquely Canadian figure in the great stories of the...

Follow-up to the phenomenal international bestseller. Including letters from: Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis...

The 100 finest short stories ever written, collected in one gorgeous volume. Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of 100 of the...

The book titled Parnassus Mad Ward: Michael Dransfield and the New Australian Poetry by the author Livio Dobrez. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled The Dictionary of Australian Quotations by the author Stephen ed Murray-Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in...

Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The storytellers knew their craft and...

It takes a particular kind of man, writes Howard Jacobson, to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional, or consumed with...

The book titled They Went That-a-Way-- by the author Malcolm S. Forbes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Uplifting, passionate and compelling, From the Heart is a wonderful new collection from your favourite Australians of note. 'Letters, we have witnessed firsthand, stir some unusually beautiful things in people,'...

A selection of Classic texts that have inspired Paulo Coelho, carefully chosen and beautifully presented 'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers....

A mosaic of human connections in all their sexy and shameless shades - from breaking up to making out, quiet contentment to agonising loneliness, sexting to ghosting, friendships to 'fuckboys',...

The book titled Masterpieces by the author Kahlil Gibran. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Vengeful spirits, mysterious revenants and haunted objects stalk the pages of Wilkie Collins' short fiction, and yet his reputation as a sensation and detective novelist has long overshadowed his inventive...

This anthology demonstrates to the full just how rewarding an art form the aphorism can be, and just how brilliantly the aphorist can illuminate the hidden truth, or lay bare...

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason...

'A gorgeous collection: if you savour words quite as much as food, this is for you!' NIGELLA LAWSON A deliciously moreish collection of the finest pieces of writing on food....

LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to share...

A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative...

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason...

The second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second World War to decriminalization in 1967...

As long as people have been writing, they have been writing about nature. But nature - as we know it - is changing. Economic migration, overpopulation and - most significantly...

SOMEWHERE A BIRD IS SINGING Sally is an orphan living in Plymouth's Barbican, where a vile trade flourishes in young girls, duped and shipped off to the brothels of Europe....

Indigenous Tales of Nature from Around the World An array of vivid responses to nature from indigenous oral traditions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas.

The relationship between a mother and daughter is one of the most profound bonds in life. A mother feels her daughter's first kick during pregnancy, labors to bring her daughter...

Cycling? It's one of my life's constants, it feeds my need for beauty, for delight and for aimless exploring. It makes my body hum and brings me safely back to...

From Ernest Hemingway's perfect hamburger to Beatrix Potter's home-made gingerbread, The Writer's Table presents 50 of the world's best-loved authors' favourite recipes.In the style of books including A Room of...

This collection brings together general lectures and specific researches conducted among the Sama and Sama Dilaut in Tawi-Tawi; the Tala-andig Bukidnon in Mindanao; and the Ifugao, the Itneg, and the...

With a sprightly dose of insightful inspiration, a sprinkling of practical advice, and a bounty of exuberant stories by great writers, O's Little Book of Happiness features some of the...

'Captures moments in time like nothing else.' RICHARD E. GRANT 'Intimate . . . and rarely predictable.' MICHAEL PALIN 'Completely fascinating and inspiring. Completely addictive.' STEPHEN FRY 'A volume to...