Trouble - Evolution of a Radical: Selected Writings 1970-2010 by Kate Jennings
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally into silence with a pull-no-punches speech calling for women's empowerment. Brave, impassioned and searingly funny, it set the tone for an unconventional life. A few years later she was on her way to New York, where she would make her na ...Show more
Angry at Breakfast: Ten Years of Editorials from The Saturday Paper by Erik Jensen
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Some of Australia's best political writing- a dazzling chronicle from the editor of The Saturday Paper Drawn from the first ten years of The Saturday Paper, these editorials tell the story of a country in trouble. They are a penetrating account of the people who have led Australia, fusing character stu ...Show more
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Never has a publication been more timely' - Dazed 'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbule ...Show more
Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation'. Olivia Laing. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tribute ...Show more
The White Album by Joan Didion
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
An extraordinary report on the aftermath of the 1960s in America by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own "bad dreams" with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of ...Show more
Get Signed: Find an Agent; Land a Book Deal; and Become a Published Author by Lucinda Halpern
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Discover the secret strategies debut authors have used to sign with literary agents and get book deals.In this first-of-its-kind book, Lucinda Halpern (founder of Lucinda Literary) walks aspiring authors of fiction and non-fiction through every stage of the process - from conception to getting signed.Pu ...Show more
Happening by Annie Ernaux
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. I ...Show more
Shame by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (translator)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the 12 year old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. Wi ...Show more
On Writing by Charles Bukowski
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A collection of previously unpublished letters from America's cult icon on the art of writing. Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On Writing collects Bukowski's reflections and rumina ...Show more
W. E. H. Stanner: Selected Writings by W. E. H. Stanner
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Shortlisted Man Booker International 2019 Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of workWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008, and ...Show more