Griffith Review 63 - Writing the Country by Ashley Hay; Julianne Schultz
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
How we speak of and to the world we live in requires us to make sense of where we are and where we?re going; it requires us to describe, interrogate and analyse our places from the smallest to the grandest of scales.In the second issue of Griffith Review, published fifteen years ago, Melissa Lucashenko ...Show more
Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing by David Leser
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
One of the most talked-about and widely praised articles of 2018, expanded into the water-cooler book of the #MeToo era. 'How to find the right words to frame this horror? How to understand why men do what they do to women? How to comprehend this malign force that seems to seep from the male psyche and ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 76: Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge by Peter Hartcher
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: QUARTERLY ESSAY 76
China has become a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions and strategy when it comes to Australia? In this gripping account, Peter Hartcher shows that we are entering an era of undeclared contestation, whether for hearts and minds, mi ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 77: Cry Me a River, The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin by Margaret Simons by Margaret Simons
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Category: Literary Studies | 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
She I Dare Not Name by Donna Ward
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Category: Literary Studies
A compelling memoir about the single life and the courage to live alone in a world made for couples and families.
The Details: On Love, Death and Reading by Tegan Bennett Daylight
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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
The Novel Project: A Step-by-Step Guide to Your Novel, Memoir or Biography by Graeme Simsion
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Category: Literary Studies
The no-drama novel writing method behind Graeme Simsion's global bestsellersSave the drama for the story.'Writing is easy- all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.' Variously attributed to Thomas Wolfe, Paul Gallico and Ernest Hemingway, the quote p ...Show more
Critical Revolutionaries - Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read by Terry Eagleton
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Category: Literary Studies
Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature
Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift by Charmian Clift
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Category: Literary Studies
‘I know it’s a daring suggestion, but I’ll make it anyway.’ Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical and fearless, her essays seamlessly the personal and the political. In 1964, Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston returned to Australia after living and writing for many years i ...Show more
All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman
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Category: Literary Studies
Why do men do so little at home? Why do women do so much? Why don't our egalitarian values match our lived experiences?Journalist-turned-psychologist Darcy Lockman offers a clear-eyed look at the most pernicious problem facing modern parents--how progressive relationships become traditional ones when ch ...Show more
And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Literary Studies
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. The collected short pieces of nonfiction from one of Australia's best novelists. 'And what do you do, Mr Faulkner?' asked Clark Gable after being introduced to William Faulkner at a party. 'I write,' replied Faulkner. 'And what do you do, Mr Gable?' Over the year ...Show more
Award Winning Australian Writing 2012 by Adolfo Aranjuez
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Category: Literary Studies
Now in its fifth edition, Award Winning Australian Writing (AWAW) continues its commitment to showcasing the best short stories and poems that have won competitions around the country. This year, Melbourne Books is again expanding the project, increasing the number of featured pieces to over fifty. AWAW ...Show more