No, You're Not Entitled to Your Opinion: And 49 Other Essays That Got the World Talking by Alexandra Hansen
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Category: Literature
From its early days as an unknown start-up, The Conversation published landmark essays such as Patrick Stokes's 'No, you're not entitled to your opinion', which saw the organisation grow into an important and valued part of the news media. It has since expanded to eight regions around the world and is p ...Show more
Invisible Ink - A Novel by Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti (Translator)
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Category: Literature | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in a "mesmerizing, enigmatic novel" (Publishers Weekly) "Nobel Prize winner Modiano's title smartly ties together the theme, plot, and ambience of his latest book . . . The past overlaps and memories half-emerge in classic Modiano fashion, just as ...Show more
Losing Face: An unforgettable novel about family and Western Sydney (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by George Haddad
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Category: Literature
Joey is young, indifferent. He's drifting around Western Sydney unaware that his passivity is leading him astray. And then one day he is involved in a violent crime, one that threatens to upend his life entirely.Elaine, his grandmother, is a proud Lebanese woman with problems of her own. When Joey is ar ...Show more
Faithless: Shortlisted for The Age Fiction Book of the Year Awards 2023 by Alice Nelson
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Category: Literature
A passionate love story and an honest depiction of the deceptions woven to sustain the idea of connection. Set between England and India, Faithless tells the story of Cressida, a writer and translator, and her consuming love for Max, an enigmatic older writer - and a married man. Faithless charts the co ...Show more
Swimming Back to Trout River: A Novel by Linda Rui Feng
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Category: Literature
A “beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration…and love” (Jean Kwok, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation) set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution that follows a father’s quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter’s ...Show more
An A-Z of Jane Austen by Michael Greaney
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Category: Literature
Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words. Using a lively A-Z structure, Greaney provides fresh angles on familiar Aust ...Show more
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors by Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie
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Category: Literature
DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. For centuries past, and all across the world HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. there are words that have defined and decried us. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. Words that raise our hackles VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. fire up our blood; FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. words that tell a story I ...Show more
Object Coach by Tom Lee
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Category: Literature
Tom, our narrator, is a stranger in an intellectual community whose members experience the world by wondering how things are made and how they might be made differently. Instead of characters undergoing dramatic changes, Tom's life in this world is defined by the changing plans for these things- objects ...Show more
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Literature
Spring Snow is the first book of Mishima’s masterpiece tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. The novel is set in Tokyo in 1912, in the closed circles of the imperial court and the ancient aristocracy, a world beginning to be breached by newcomers, the rich provincial families whose money and vitality makes t ...Show more
On Peter Carey: Writers on Writers by Sarah Krasnostein
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Category: Literature
Award-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned Kelly of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Carey, who moved from Australia to America, conjured Kelly after seeing Sidney Nolan's paintings of the bushranger at the Met. In this moving essay Krasnostein, ...Show more
New Australian Fiction 2023 by Suzy Garcia (Editor)
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Category: Literature
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.
Handwritten Remarkable People on the Page by Lesley Smith
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Category: Literature
The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection of treasures from the Bodleian Library introduces remarkable individuals through documents written by their own hands. From the second century BCE to the present, individual lives and relationships a ...Show more