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Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
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
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 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
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
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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
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 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
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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
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Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology
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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
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The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde
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Heroines: The essential feminist manifesto and 'One of the 50 greatest
'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
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The Elsewhere Community: A Grand Tour of the World, and the Mind
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Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion
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Between the Leaves: Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens
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Conversations with David Foster Wallace
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Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life
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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
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States of Emergency
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The Modern Movement
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Creative Lives: Personal papers of Australian writers and artists
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Kerouac's Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction
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Idle Talk: Gwen Harwood, Letters 1960-1964
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Shakespeare: For All Time
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Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident
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
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Mistaken Identity
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Rooms of Their Own
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Strong Man from Piraeus and Other Stories
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How to Live, What to Do: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wallace Stevens
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English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
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