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Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
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
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 79: The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
What has the coronavirus pandemic revealed about Scott Morrison, and where is he taking Australia? Epidemics are mirrors. What has COVID-19 revealed about Australia, and about Scott Morrison and his government? In this gripping essay, Katharine Murphy goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the res ...Show more
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be par ...Show more
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
$13.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better.
Yes to Life Inspite of Everything by Viktor E. Frankl
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Extraordinary uncovered work by the 16 million copy bestselling author of Man's Search For Meaning Just months after his liberation from Auschwitz renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl delivered a series of talks revealing the foundations of his life-affirming philosophy for which he would become world ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more
The Details: On Love, Death and Reading by Tegan Bennett Daylight
$27.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A long and intimate relationship with reading has taught acclaimed writer Tegan Bennett Daylight that - in life as in books - the delight is in the details. Tegan Bennett Daylight has led a life in books - as a writer, a teacher and a critic, but first and foremost as a reader. Reading has been her insp ...Show more
2020: The Year That Changed Us by The Conversation; Molly Glassey (Contribution by)
$22.00 AUD
Category: Essays
In January 2020, Australia went from battling one of its worst-ever bushfire seasons to preparing for COVID-19 to hit its shores. What ensued was crisis: a pandemic, political upheaval, an international human rights movement, global recession and localised emergencies dwarfed by a world spinning on an a ...Show more
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader by Vivian Gornick
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
I sometimes think I was born reading ... I can't remember the time when I didn't have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me. A celebration of the delights of rereading from the acclaimed author of The Odd Woman and the City In nine essays that meld criticism and memoir, Gornick retur ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 78: The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
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
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television."--Esquire "A whip-smart, challenging book."--Zadie Smith * "Jia Tolentino could be the Joan D ...Show more