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Quarterly Essay 78: The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future 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
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
Meet Me at the Intersection by Ezekiel Kwaymullina; Graham Akhurst; Jessica Walton; Ambelin Kwaymullina; Rebecca Lim; Amra Pajalic; Kelly Gardiner; Alice Pung; Omar Sakr; Jordi Kerr; Ellen van Neerven
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
With works by Ellen van Neerven, Graham Akhurst, Kyle Lynch, Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Olivia Muscat, Mimi Lee, Jessica Walton, Kelly Gardiner, Rafeif Ismail, Yvette Walker, Amra Pajalic, Omar Sakr, Wendy Chen, Jordi Kerr, Rebecca Lim, Michelle Aung Thin and Alice Pung, this anthology is designed to challeng ...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
Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. "Displaced" returns us to a y ...Show more
Beloved Land: Stories, Struggles and Secrets from Timor-Leste by Gordon Peake
$29.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies
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Things a Map Won't Show You: Stories from Australia and Beyond by Susan La Marca; Pam Macintyre (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
An unforgettable collection of short fiction, poetry and comic art from Australia and beyond . . . A boy who tries to fly, a cricket game in a refugee centre, a government guide to kissing, the perils of hunting goannas, an arranged marriage, an awkward blind date, a girl who stands on her head, an impr ...Show more
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid th ...Show more
The Best of A. A. Gill by A A Gill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age', as Lynn Barber put it. This is the definitive collec ...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
The Red Hand: Stories, Reflections and the Last Appearance of Jack Irish by Peter Temple
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews. When Temple died in March 2018 there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. It is included in The R ...Show more