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Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

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An outstanding and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle, Edward Said and the power of narrative FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION-SHORTLISTED AND RSL ENCORE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF ENTER GHOST...
How Fiction Works

How Fiction Works

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A deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the...
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary

The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary

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The hidden history of the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary **LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024** 'Unmissable' Stephen Fry 'A delight' Katherine Rundell 'Illuminating' Susie...
Handwritten: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Treasures from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Handwritten: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Treasures from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

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In an era when the practice, indeed the art, of writing by hand is fast giving way to the keyboard, it is timely to pause and to consider the volume...
Oscar Wilde: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Oscar Wilde: Pulitzer Prize Winner

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Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by...
Rereadings

Rereadings

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Is a book the same book--or a reader the same reader--the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer:...
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary

The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary

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The people's history of the first great crowdsourcing experiment of the Victorian age- the Oxford English Dictionary What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in...
Literary Theory: An Introduction

Literary Theory: An Introduction

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Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

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Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1880-1920

Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1880-1920

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Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life

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A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023 * * THE FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS...
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than

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One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on science, history and humanity One of our most beloved...
Books that Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure

Books that Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure

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A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in books Here are forty texts to read at some stage in your life- forty texts that can enrich...
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

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A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP ACROSS THIS LINE From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie,...
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

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A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. 'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A...
Mao's Last Dancer

Mao's Last Dancer

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Before you can fly, you have to be free. A new edition of the phenomenal international bestseller. From bitter poverty to the stardom of the West - this is the...
The Bookseller's Tale

The Bookseller's Tale

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A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller 'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.' This is the story of our...
Classical Literary Criticism

Classical Literary Criticism

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Recently updated and expanded volume of the landmarks of ancient literary criticism The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world- they...
Poetics

Poetics

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Penguin Classics relaunch A penetrating account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce 'pity and fear' - and why we derive...
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling: First Nations Classics

Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling: First Nations Classics

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Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction by Fiona Foley, Finding Eliza is a vital Indigenous perspective on colonial storytelling. Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa...
AZADI: Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus

AZADI: Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus

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With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is...
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

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Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology

Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology

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Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World

Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World

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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

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The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde

The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde

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Heroines: The essential feminist manifesto and 'One of the 50 greatest books by women' (Buzzfeed):  'Sharp, finely-structured, and meticulously researched' Maggie Nelson

Heroines: The essential feminist manifesto and 'One of the 50 greatest

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'I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order - pretending...
The Great Australian Novel: A Panorama

The Great Australian Novel: A Panorama

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The Elsewhere Community: A Grand Tour of the World, and the Mind

The Elsewhere Community: A Grand Tour of the World, and the Mind

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Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion

Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion

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Between the Leaves: Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens

Between the Leaves: Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens

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Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Conversations with David Foster Wallace

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Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life

Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life

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Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value

Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value

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If You Have Two Loaves of Bread, Sell One and Buy a Lily and Other Proverbs of China

If You Have Two Loaves of Bread, Sell One and Buy a Lily and Other Proverbs of China

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States of Emergency

States of Emergency

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The Modern Movement

The Modern Movement

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Creative Lives: Personal papers of Australian writers and artists

Creative Lives: Personal papers of Australian writers and artists

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Kerouac's Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction

Kerouac's Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction

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Idle Talk: Gwen Harwood, Letters 1960-1964

Idle Talk: Gwen Harwood, Letters 1960-1964

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Shakespeare: For All Time

Shakespeare: For All Time

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Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident

Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident

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In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up at the execution ground proclaimed their crime: they were devotees of the "pernicious creed"...
Meanjin Vol 64, No. 1&2: Portraits Of Artist

Meanjin Vol 64, No. 1&2: Portraits Of Artist

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Mistaken Identity

Mistaken Identity

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Rooms of Their Own

Rooms of Their Own

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Strong Man from Piraeus and Other Stories

Strong Man from Piraeus and Other Stories

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How to Live, What to Do: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wallace Stevens

How to Live, What to Do: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wallace Stevens

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English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

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