Browse by category
Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-Century Grandmothers by Helen Elliott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
An anthology of essays by twenty-four Australian women, edited by Helen Elliott, about the many aspects of being a grandmother in the 21st century. It seems so different from the experience we had of our grandmothers. Although perhaps the human essential, love, hasn't shifted much? In thoughtful, provok ...Show more
Incidental Inventions (HB) by Elena Ferrante; Ann Goldstein (Translator); Andrea Ucini (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
"This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me." With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian. For a full year she penned short pieces, the subjects of which were suggested by edit ...Show more
The Coal Curse: Quarterly Essay 78 by Judith Brett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter, accounting for over a third of coal exports worldwide. In 2018, coal overtook iron ore as our most valuable export. Scott Morrison’s government has embraced coal, doubling down on supporting the industry, calling climate-based boycotts of coal companies “i ...Show more
Heartsick for Country: Stories of Love, Spirit, and Creation by Blaze Kwaymullina, Tjalaminu Mia, and Sally Morgan
$27.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies
The stories in this anthology speak of the love between Aboriginal peoples and their countries. They are personal accounts that share knowledge, insight and emotion, each speaking of a deep connection to country and of feeling heartsick because of the harm that is being inflicted on country even today, ...Show more
Remembered By Heart: An Anthology Of Indigenous Writing by Sally Morgan
$17.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
A collection of powerful, true stories of Aboriginal life This anthology brings together 15 memoirs of growing up Aboriginal in Australia and includes works from Kim Scott, Australia's first indigenous Miles Franklin winner; bestselling author Sally Morgan; and the critically acclaimed artist, autho ...Show more
A Country Too Far by Rosie; Keneally Scott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
"I don't think I've seen a more impressive collection of Australian writers in a single book.'aStephen Romei,aThe Australian One of the central moral issues of our time is the question of asylum seekers, arguably the most controversial subject in Australia today. In this landmark anthology, twenty-seven ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$39.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies | Reading Level: near fine
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more
Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher (Compiled by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Q ...Show more
Beloved Land: Stories, Struggles and Secrets from Timor-Leste by Gordon Peake
$29.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies
No Marketing Blurb
Griffith Review 67: Matters of Trust by Ashley Hay
$27.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
From our first experiences to our last, institutions structure our world - through education and medicine to politics, justice, civics and religion. But in recent years even the most entrenched of institutions are seemingly on the edge of implosion. Either through deliberate political attacks or as an e ...Show more
Purple Prose by Liz Byrski, Rachel Robertson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
Purple Prose introduces fifteen new works of non-fiction by Australian women writers, each responding to the colour purple. In their hands, purple takes on many meanings. From a story about King George's coronation gown to pigeon fanciers and the Dockers' Purple Haze, this is a book for women readers ev ...Show more
Fight of the Century - Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
$45.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies
A unique collaboration between the American Civil Liberties Union and authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, Fight of the Century features original essays by the most influential writers at work today--including Jennifer Egan, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Salman Rushdie, Jesmyn Ward ...Show more
