Simple Passion - UK ed. by Annie Ernaux
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, she attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married man where every word, event, ...Show more
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more
Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance by Eda Gunaydin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
That there is no easy translation for ‘awkward’ in other languages suggests that I’m only myself in English. This feels like a loss, because I’d like to think of myself as Turkish, too.There is a Turkish saying that one’s home is not where one is born, but where one grows full – doğduğun yer değil, doyd ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
$20.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, p ...Show more
Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays
One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one’s self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick’s essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal ex ...Show more
Watsonia: A Writing Life by Don Watson
$50.00 AUD
Category: Essays
No other writer has journeyed further into the soul of Australia and returned to tell the tale... Watsonia collects the fruits of a writing life. It covers everything from Australian bush humour to America gone berserk; from Don Bradman to Oscar Wilde; from Animal Farmto the Australian parliament. Wher ...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
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for Zadie Smith's insatiable curiosity. From social media to the environment, Tarantino to Jay-Z to Knausgaard, she has endless fascination and the boundless wit, insight and wisdom to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political ...Show more
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their ow ...Show more
Nobody's Looking at You - Essays by Janet Malcolm
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Janet Malcolm's previous collection, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, was 'unmistakably the work of a master' (New York Times Book Review). Like Forty-One False Starts, Nobody's Looking at You brings together previously uncompiled pieces, mainly from The New Yorker and the New Yor ...Show more
The Best of A. A. Gill by A A Gill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays
For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age', as Lynn Barber put it. This is the definitive collec ...Show more
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
$24.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Garner is a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for her non-fiction writings. The judges praised Garner's work as 'intelligent, lucid and often disturbing.' PRAISE FOR EVERYWHERE I LOOK'A captivating collection...No matter the topic, Garner is a charming and courageous writer whose distinctive voice ...Show more