Essays, Anthologies, Letters & Prose

Cicero's reflections upon the way to a live a good life For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and...

Sometimes, we all need to get away... Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes plots the course of our daydreams, our transformations and our jailbreaks. It takes us across borders and through...

This is a collection of new and previously published articles written by Raybon Kan. It brings together a collection of pieces from columns featured in the 'Sunday Star Times' and...

Weaving a complex tapestry drawn from interviews, anecdotes, moments from Beard's own life, and sheer imagination, these extraordinary pieces embody the hospitality of spectacular writing: they are spaces you fall...

Stories for Today , a special summer fiction edition, presents a fresh and candid reinterpretation of the Australian character, with stories from the writers who are making an impact at...

Big as in substantial, powerful, famous; men as in weak, wicked, and notorious. Gitta Sereny on Albert Speer, the tyrant as survivor; Caroline Alexander on the classical tyrant, Hastings Banda;...

No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven. The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from...

A man vilified by society and condemned to death for his crime wakes every morning knowing that this day might be his last. With the hope for release his only...

The internet has shaken the foundations of life: public and private lives are wrought by the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week news cycle that means no one is ever off duty. On Disruption...

'Powerful and profound' Deirdre Purcell 'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom learned the tough way' Joseph O'Connor For almost fifty years, Michael Harding has been...

In his new collection of essays Subhash Jaireth traverses the globe in an exploration of the personal and collective memory held within natural and built landscapes. His roving curiosity takes...

I heard this crazy story, and I want you to know. It is the age of internet gossip; of social networks, repackaged ideas and rating everything out of five stars....

'I loved her ruthless, impatient thinking, her ferocious attention' Adam Thirlwell, New Statesman Books of the Year 2025 From one of the most talented young thinkers in the US, a...

This is a book of the thoughts, philosophies, humour and favourite sayings of Australia's most listended to talk radio commentator, John Laws. A selection of the best from his popular...

A collection of stirring, poignant personal essays from Tony Judt, one of our leading historians. It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a...

'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' A powerful, joyous, stunningly illustrated collection of essays by queer icons about the LGBTQ+ trailblazers throughout history who...

For the last three decades Gary Younge has had a ringside seat during the biggest events and with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora: accompanying Nelson Mandela...

The book titled The White Review Anthology by the author Jacques Testard. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Puffin Classics- the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this legendary edition...

We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks. In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between...

"Golding makes Ovid both dreamy and robust. Here we can listen to the English language as it moves confidently into the highest eloquence" - Tom Paulin Bringing together a series...

'One of the most important books to have been published since the war' Daily Telegraph In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society...

Author: Louise Kenward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'An anthology to treasure and return to' ELINOR CLEGHORN 'Uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful' LUCY JONES 'Deeply affecting' TOM SHAKESPEARE 'Promises...

Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated - or mocked - as the master...

'Pure balm for your soul. Savor one at a time every morning, this summer, or wolf them all down en masse on a gorgeous sunny day.' CELESTE NG, author of...

This collection of occasional writing 'reveals a consistency, a subtlety, a creativeness springing from tradition . . . For David Jones every sentence is wrought with artistry; and as compared...

The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer The conclusion to one of...

The book titled Truman Capote Reader by the author Truman Capote. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This collection of writing about flying spans the 20th century, featuring poems and prose by pioneer aviators, war pilots, amateurs and writers from Julian Barnes to Nicholson Baker.

Forest fires, terrorism, war: thrilling adventure writing, as the bestselling author of THE PERFECT STORM brings his talents for exhilaration to new and overawing life-threatening situations. The millions of readers...

Composer, pianist and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Epoque Paris. Known for his unvarying image of bowler hat, three-piece suit and umbrella, Satie was...

I have invented nothing, but memory weaves its own histories. These are travel stories, ranging in time and place. Some are memories of a re-imagined past, others more personal. Simon...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to...

"The Conspiracy of Catiline" (his first published work) contains the history of the memorable year 63. Sallust adopts the usually accepted view of Catiline, and describes him as the deliberate...

The astonishing story of a young man's upbringing in a remote tribal village in Burma and his journey from his strife-torn country to the tranquil quads of Cambridge. In lyrical...

'Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is' i Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's...

'Brims with ideas and insights . . . Ghosh is at his sparkling best' IRISH TIMES Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed...

A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the No.1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favourite Humorist. A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd...

From Harriet Jacobs and Jane Addams to Gloria Steinem and Maxine Hong Kingston, 25 American women tell the stories of their lives. Jill Ker Conway, author of "The Road from...

The book titled The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations by the author Ron Rosenbaum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

'wide-ranging, defiant and impassioned' - Fiona Wright, author of The World Was Whole What does it mean to terminate a pregnancy? In Tissue, Madison Griffiths turns her keen eye to...

" "Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America." " - Publishers Weekly "[These contributions] touch on so many different...

This is a literary journey of an Australian writer's encounter with the culture and people of China, particularly its young writers and artists, and of the evolving influence of China...

This is a personal and perceptive confrontation of racial intolerance in Scotland and notions of Englishness and Scottishness.

A collection of sermons entered into the Times newspaper's competition for the best sermon in the UK. For the second consecutive year the competition now includes sermons from the Jewish...

I'm A Little Special- A Muhammad Ali Reader collects 30 of the best pieces ever written about this sporting legend in an anthology by the greatest about the Greatest. Muhammad...