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Quarterly Essay 77: Cry Me a River, The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin by Margaret Simons by Margaret Simons
$23.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies | Series: Quarterly Essay
The Murray-Darling Basin is the food bowl of Australia, and it's in trouble. What does this mean for the future - for water and food, and for the people and towns that depend on it? In this Quarterly Essay, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through the basin, all the way from Queensland ...Show more
My Tidda, My Sister: Stories from Australia's First Women by Marlee Silva
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Category: Anthologies
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and society has existed on this continent for millennia. It is a culture that manifests as the ultimate example of resilience, strength and beauty. It's also a culture that has consistently been led by its women. My Tidda, My Sister shares the experiences of ...Show more
Growing up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
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Category: Anthologies
'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.' 'I didn't grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.' 'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.' 'The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.' 'Don't fear the labe ...Show more
Watsonia - A Writing Life by Don Watson
$54.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies
'When you write speeches for other people for a living, any audience is a good audience. I address walls and poultry: I stand on a wheelbarrow and give after-dinner speeches as the moon rises over the fowl yard. I say, Eight and a half generations of you fowls I have known. The chooks treat it as a dive ...Show more
Griffith Review 67: Matters of Trust by Ashley Hay
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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
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
GRANTA 153: Second Nature by SIGRID. RAUSING
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
Guest-edited by Isabella Tree, author of Wilding, this nature issue touches on every continent in the world and features award-winning writers, expert scientists and activists from the frontlines of the climate crisis.
Maeve Binchy's Treasury by Maeve Binchy
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Category: Anthologies
Over 40 delightful stories drawn from The Return Journey and This Year it will be Different, plus eight new autobiographical stories.
Can We Trust America: Australian Foreign Affairs Issue 8 Australian Foreign Affairs 8 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Anthologies
The eighth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the changing status of the United States as its dominance in the Asia-Pacific faces challenge from China and its "America First" foreign policy marks a shift away from global engagement. Can We Trust America? looks at the uncertainties for Austral ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 79 No 2
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Category: Anthologies
Intimacy Author and essayist Lucia Osborne-Crowley examines the cost of intimacy for women in a world where men demand exclusive access to the closeness of their female partners, often without returning the emotional labour involved. Other essays include- Academic and author Toby Miller looks at the st ...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