Australia Day by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Australia is poised at a critical moment of its history - but the time to act is now. Since publishing Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows ...Show more
The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
$19.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in--or spent time--in the greatest of American ...Show more
On Us by Mark Scott
$14.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
How do we step outside our own echo chamber to understand others? What are we losing when we share fewer and fewer national moments? The new media is enabling despots and disempowering democracy. So when every opinion seems to matter equally, On Usoffers a few more on choice in a concentrated media worl ...Show more
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
$16.99 AUD
Category: Essays
An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller. Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medus ...Show more
Larrikan Bush Tales by Graham Seal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
From one of our master storytellers, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories, comes another collection of yarns, tall tales, bush legends, and colorful characters. Taking us from the deep outback to the glistening sea, they go to the heart of what makes us distinctively Australian.
An Inconvenient Genocide - Who Remembers the Armenians? by Geoffrey Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays
The most controversial issue left over from the First World War - was there an Armenian Genocide? - comes to a head on 24 April 2015, when Armenians throughout the world commemorate the centenary of the murder of 1.5 million - over half - of their people, at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government. ...Show more
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.' In these funny a ...Show more
On Living by Kerry Egan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
A hospice chaplain's lessons on the meaning of life, from those who are leaving it What are the top regrets of the dying? That's what Kerry Egan, a hospice chaplain, learned as she listened to her patients on their deathbeds, witnessing what she calls the "spiritual work of dying" - the work of finding ...Show more
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
Life Lessons from Remarkable Women: Tales of Triumph, Failure and Learning to Love Yourself
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays
We asked remarkable women from all walks of life to reveal the one life lesson they want all women to know. Lessons covering issues that all women face including finding confidence within ourselves, dealing with failure, building long-lasting and meaningful relationships, pursuing a fulfilling and succe ...Show more
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
$39.99 AUD
Category: Essays
A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary--appearing in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New York ...Show more
Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion by Louise Swinn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Edited by Louise Swinn, Choice Words is a timely collection of stories, essays, rants and raves from high profile women that seeks to demystify abortion and its surrounding stigma.