Essays, Anthologies, Letters & Prose

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...

Still the Two is an hilarious selection of interviews with the nation's leaders and prominent citizens. Based on John Clarke and Bryan Dawe's appearances on 'A Current Affair' and 3AW,...

Auberon Waugh has been compared to Jonathan Swift. He was an outrageous satirist who slaughtered whole herds of sacred cows and turned people's heartfelt convictions on their heads. The best...

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This is the prose masterpiece of the Heian era of the 10th and 11th centuries, which is recognized as a great period in Japanese literature. It is an account of...

You've had The Big Read, now here comes The Big Think. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each...

In this book the author seeks to understand the political causes and psychological effects of the conflicts in the Middle East. He sketches the prelude to the troubles, and places...

The 1000 years between Alexander the Great's invasion in 332 BC and the Arab conquest in AD 642 was a period of enormous change in the history of Egypt. The...

This is a collection of essays in celebration of the Trust's centenary. The wide range of subjects embraced by the Trust (conservation, preservation, education, access for leisure, archaeology, natural history,...

A preeminent philosopher and historian of ideas, Isaiah Berlin is a fascinating figure who has known virtually everyone and influenced much of the intellectual development in this century. The Proper...

"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," ( The Christian Science Monitor ) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever...

'To be taught to write or to speak - but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think - nay, what...

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...

Reissue First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young...

Folly exists because good literature should turn you on a little. Intellectually, emotionally - sometimes viscerally. We're not here to bore you. We're here to dazzle you, disturb you, make...

These essays, many of them presidential addresses to the John Clare Society, form a unique series of `meetings' between the Northamptonshire labourer who became England's finest nature poet and our...

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A curated collection of essays that shaped Australia's culture and society Since the 1940s, Meanjin essays have set the national cultural agenda. Arthur Phillips' idea of 'cultural cringe' has become...

What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This innovative and wide-ranging study argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect...

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...

Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world....

Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999, but alongside his work as a poet he also had a significant career as a prize-winning biographer and an illuminating critic. Ways...

In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour , Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a...

'A sheer delight' Times Literary Supplement Ferdinand Mount has spent many years writing articles, columns and reviews for prestigious magazines, newspapers and journals. Whether reviewing great published works by some...

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...

With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired Reflections on...

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...

An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of...

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...

Her classic personal essay carries a message about the value of truth, scrutiny and accountability-a much-needed, pocket-sized antidote to fake news. Donald Trump, the post-truth world and the instability of...

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Lit Hub Chicago Review Ms. Magazine March pick A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer...

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...

Author: James Bailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to...

'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the mostfascinating of the tradition's torch bearers.' - New York From one of the most...

'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...

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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...

In The Call of the Tribe , Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that haveshaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years.The Nobel...

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....

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...

Author: Louise Kenward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A first-of-its-kind anthology of nature writing by authors living with chronic illness and physical disability WITH A FOREWORD BY SAMANTHA WALTON...

Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Brian Dillon, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing) Diana Evans, Wiam El-Tamami, Tabitha Lasley, Adele Rosenfeld (tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman), Anjan Sundaram, Ed Vulliamy, Ada Wordsworth. Fiction...