Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech by Julia Gillard
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Category: Literary Studies
Ten years on from the speech that stopped us all in our tracks – Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech. Where were you then? And where are we now? Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did pla ...Show more
Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
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Category: Literary Studies
Here's what started the phenomenon: the best seller, for over 15 years, that's been used by screenwriters around the world Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie business. "Save the Cat" is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and you ...Show more
On Money by Rick Morton
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: On Ser.
Money makes the world go round, but does it make us happy? Money is one of the most fraught subjects; it raises powerful emotions in all of us. Too much money often corrupts people - too little can make people feel desperate. Growing up in rural Queensland, journalist Rick Morton has known poverty ...Show more
Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra (1955 - 1964) by Paul Genoni, Tanya Dalziell
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Biography Ser.
WINNER OF 2019 NONFICTION PM'S PRIZE Half the Perfect World is a social and literary account of the expatriate artist community on the Greek island of Hydra from 1955 to 1964, and is richly illustrated by LIFE Magazine eye-witness photographer James Burke. Fostered by celebrated Australian literary cou ...Show more
Anonymous Sex by Hillary Jordan & Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (edited by)
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Category: Literary Studies
Twenty-seven well-known writers, their imaginations unleashed by anonymity… A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference · Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire · In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be · A young ...Show more
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
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Category: Literary Studies
Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing--of being--articulated by ten pathfinding women writers. "A wild portrayal of the passion and spirit of female walkers and the deep sense of 'knowing' that they found along the path."--Raynor Wi ...Show more
Richard III (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of"Richard III"on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.Each No Fear Shakespeare containsliThe complete text of the original play/liliA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language/lil ...Show more
As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body by Kaya Wilson
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Category: Literary Studies
When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father's death, he was met with a startling family history of concealed queerness and shame. As Beautiful As Any Other weaves this legacy together with intimate examinations of ...Show more
Children of the Black Skirt by Angela Betzien
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Teenage S.
Three lost children discover an abandoned orphanage in the bush. They become trapped in this timeless world, haunted by spirits of the past and perpetually tormented by the ominous Black Skirt, the cruel governess who floats up and down the orphanage corridors wielding her enormous scissors. Soon, the c ...Show more
Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: No Fear Shakespeare Ser.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness-from overwh ...Show more
In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World by Padraig O Tuama
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Category: Literary Studies
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.Drawing on this Irish saying, poet, storyteller and theologian Pádraig Ã? Tuama relates ideas of shelter and welcome to journeys of life, using poetry, story, biblical refelction and prose to open up gentle ways of living well in a troubled world. ...Show more
Reading the Holocaust by Inga Clendinnen
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Category: Literary Studies
In this searching and eloquent book, Inga Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' point of view in an attempt to extract the comprehensible - the recognisably human - from the unthinkable. Winner of the 1999 New South Wales Premier's History Award ...Show more