Essays, Anthologies, Letters & Prose

Sort by:
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1

Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
A richly enthralling and evocative account of King Arthur Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy...
Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is for Hawk

Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is

$26.99 AUD
From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world' Observer...
Green Hills of Africa

Green Hills of Africa

$26.99 AUD
Hemingway's journal of a month on safari in East Africa. This is Hemingway's East African safari journal. 'All I wanted to do was get back to Africa' Green Hills of...
City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest

City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest

$19.99 AUD$16.99 AUD
How do we take in the beauty of our planet while processing the losses? What trees can survive in the city? Which animals can survive in the wild? How do...
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer

$16.99 AUD$14.44 AUD
'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' How can...
The Narrative of Trajan's Column

The Narrative of Trajan's Column

$16.99 AUD$14.44 AUD
When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous essays are not great ideas in themselves but commentaries on great...
The Decay of Lying

The Decay of Lying

$16.99 AUD$14.44 AUD
'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde's most comprehensive - and witty - explorations of his aesthetic philosphy- 'The Decay...
Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London

$16.99 AUD$14.44 AUD
Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for his great works 'You have talked so often of going to...
AZADI: Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus

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

$14.99 AUD$12.74 AUD
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...
Labyrinths: Popular Penguins

Labyrinths: Popular Penguins

$14.99 AUD$12.74 AUD
Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence....
The Art of War: Popular Penguins

The Art of War: Popular Penguins

$14.99 AUD$12.74 AUD
Offering ancient wisdom on how to use skill, cunning, tactics and discipline to outwit your opponent, this bestselling 2000-year-old military manual is still worshipped by soldiers on the battlefield and...
The Use of Photography

The Use of Photography

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
The Use of Photographyrecounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive...
I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture

I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture

$19.99 AUD$16.99 AUD
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her...
Shame - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Shame - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
'My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June,in the early afternoon.' Thus begins Shame , the probingstory of the twelve-year-old girl who will become AnnieErnaux, and the...
A Very Easy Death

A Very Easy Death

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death 'shows the power of compassion when it...
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
Searingly political, extravagantly stylish dispatches from the margins by a queer Latin American icon, in English for the first time'When everyone who has treated him like dirt is lost in...
The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories

The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories

$26.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
My Russia: War or Peace?

My Russia: War or Peace?

$29.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
Idle Talk: Gwen Harwood, Letters 1960-1964

Idle Talk: Gwen Harwood, Letters 1960-1964

$29.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's

$32.99 AUD$26.39 AUD
'Gay has an ability to blend the personal and political in a way that feels simultaneously gentle and brutal . . . you look at a cultural moment through Gay's...
Festival Days

Festival Days

$29.99 AUD$23.99 AUD
A New York Times Notable BookA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Boston Globe and LitHub Best Book of the YearWhen "The Fourth State of Matter," her now famous...
Souvenir

Souvenir

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
A vivid eulogy for London of the late 1970s and early 80s - the last years prior to the rise of the digital city.An elliptical, wildly atmospheric remembrance of the...
Winter: Five Windows on the Season

Winter: Five Windows on the Season

$27.00 AUD$21.60 AUD
Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. We learn how...
Package 2 (Volumes C+D+E) Volume D

Package 2 (Volumes C+D+E) Volume D

$46.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
The Peaceful Army

The Peaceful Army

$12.95 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
I Have A Bream

I Have A Bream

$39.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
War Stories

War Stories

$19.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
A.J.A.Symons: His Life and Speculations

A.J.A.Symons: His Life and Speculations

$14.50 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction

Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case she's...
The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings

The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings

$29.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
In time for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, a specially curated collection of Mahatma Gandhi's writings on nonviolent resistance and activism. A Penguin Classic In time...
Season of Death: A Memoir

Season of Death: A Memoir

$29.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag

My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag

$36.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's

$32.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
'Gay has an ability to blend the personal and political in a way that feels simultaneously gentle and brutal . . . you look at a cultural moment through Gay's...
The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings

The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings

$29.99 AUD$23.99 AUD
In time for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, a specially curated collection of Mahatma Gandhi's writings on nonviolent resistance and activism. A Penguin Classic In time...
When I Was A Child I Read Books

When I Was A Child I Read Books

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Author: Marilynne Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Of Marilynne Robinson, Michael Arditti said that there is 'no contemporary novelist whose work I would rather read'. However she is...
The Adventure of Food: True Stories of Eating Everything

The Adventure of Food: True Stories of Eating Everything

$32.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
My Squirrel Days

My Squirrel Days

$29.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World

Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad'Recalls the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan and the late David Foster Wallace, with a dash...
The Discovery and Conquest of Peru

The Discovery and Conquest of Peru

$52.95 AUD$25.00 AUD
Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasures being unloaded at Seville's docks in 1537, Pedro de Cieza de Leun decided to join the Spanish effort in the New World,...
Oh, To Be a Painter!

Oh, To Be a Painter!

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Virgina Woolf's collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual...
Melbourne Subjective - An Anthology of Contemporary Melbourne Writing

Melbourne Subjective - An Anthology of Contemporary Melbourne Writing

$27.50 AUD$12.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword: Skoob Pacifica Anthology No.2

Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword: Skoob Pacifica Anthology No.2

$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Wild Minds

Wild Minds

$27.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Small Wonder: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

Small Wonder: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, adolescence, genetic engineering, TV watching, the history of civil rights, or the future of a nation founded on the...
Granta 165: Deutschland

Granta 165: Deutschland

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
The autumn issue of Granta will include fiction by Judith Hermann and Clemens Meyer (tr. Katy Derbyshire) and essays by Lauren Oyler, Lutz Seiler (tr. Martyn Crucefix) and Peter Richter....
Bear Woman: The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authors

Bear Woman: The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authorsA beautifully written and astonishing...
The Givenness Of Things

The Givenness Of Things

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her trilogy of novels - Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, Orange-Prize winning Home and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Lila - and...
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral,...