Guest House for Young Widows - Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
An intimate, deeply reported account of the women who made a shocking decision- to leave their comfortable lives behind and join the Islamic State. In early 2014, the Islamic State clinched its control of Raqqa in Syria. Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, urged Muslims around the world to come join the calip ...Show more
After Australia by Sweatshop Anthology
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: edited Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, eleven of Australia's most daring Indigenous writers and writers of colour provide a glimpse of Austral ...Show more
She I Dare Not Name by Donna Ward
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A compelling memoir about the single life and the courage to live alone in a world made for couples and families.
A History of Women in Medicine - Cunning Women, Physicians, Witches by Sinead Spearing
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
'Witch' is a powerful word with humble origins. Once used to describe an ancient British tribe known for its unique class of female physicians and priestesses, it grew into something grotesque, diabolical and dangerous.A History of Women in Medicine: From Physicians to Witches? reveals the untold story ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 78: The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future by Judith Brett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: QE78
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
Intrepide - Australian Women Artists in Early Twentieth-Century France by Clem Gorman; Therese Gorman
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Biography Ser.
It is hard for us to imagine the oppressed lives of single women in the first half of the twentieth century. Yet a few Australian women took a leap into the unknown and carved careers for themselves in Paris. They studied, painted, and haunted galleries and salons. They had a little fun too, at social g ...Show more
Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
When New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first prime minister and treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on their roles while bringing up young children, this detail passed larg ...Show more
Vesper Flights - New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
How to Read World Literature by David Damrosch
$69.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: How to Study Literature Ser.
The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching the literature of other cultures and eras. Fully revised to address important developments in World Literature, and generously expanded with new material, this sec ...Show more
The Details: On Love, Death and Reading by Tegan Bennett Daylight
$26.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
In this deeply intimate and insightful work, Daylight describes how her rich storehouse of reading has nourished her life, and how her life informs her reading. In both, she shows us that it's the small points of connection - the details - that really matter: what we see when someone close to us dies, w ...Show more
New Australian Fiction 2020 : new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings by Rebecca Starford (Editor); Laura McPhee-Browne; Sophie Overett; K. A. Rees; Mirandi Riwoe; Mykaela Saunders; Laura Stortenbeker; Jessie Tu; Jack Vening; Madeleine Watts; Maame Blue; Claire G. Coleman; Elizabeth Flux; Katerina Gibson; Jack Kirne; Daria Lebedyeva; Donna Ma9780241408513zza
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: FILED UNDER K FOR KILL YOUR DARLINGS
New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct experiences, voices and styles from all corners of Australia. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian short fiction at its best.
The Best Australian Science Writing 2020 by Sara Phillips (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The annual collection – now in its tenth year – celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Can fish feel pain? Does it matter if a dingo is different from a dog? Is there life in a glob of subterranean snot? Science tackles some unexpected questions. At a time when the world is buffeted ...Show more