Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wislawa Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
"Both plain-spoken and luminous . . . [Szymborska's] is the best of the Western mind--free, restless, questioning." --New York Times Book Review ANew York TimesEditors' Choice "Vast, intimate, and charged with the warmth of a life fully imagined to the end. There's no better place for those unfamiliar ...Show more
March by Geraldine Brooks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick. From the author of the acclaimed 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book', a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War. Set during the American Civil War, 'March' tel ...Show more
Mr Salary: Faber Stories by Sally Rooney
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Category: Literature | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable. Sally Rooney is on ...Show more
Networks - Being a Part and Apart by staff and students Sydney University alumni, staff and students; Larissa Behrendt (Foreword by)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literature
Nineteen Eighty-Four [w Glover corrected last para] by George Orwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
It is 1984. The world is in a state of perpetual war and Big Brother sees and controls all. Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party and propaganda-writer at the Ministry of Truth, is keeping a journal he should not be keeping and falling in love with Julia, a woman he should not be seeing. Outwardly ...Show more
POW! by Mo Yan
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Category: Literature
In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Van, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama-in which nearly everyone dies-unfurls. But in this tale of sharp hatchets, bad water, and a rusty WWII ...Show more
Rumi Collection by Jelaluddin Rumi
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Category: Literature | Series: Shambhala Library
This comprehensive anthology of the great mystic poet, Rumi, features leading literary translations of his work. This Shambhala Library edition contains translations by nine leading poets and scholars such as Robert Bly, Coleman Barks, and Andrew Harvey, and provides a balanced overview of the poet's wo ...Show more
Selected Poems from Christina Rossetti by Rossetti Christina
$11.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Methuen Shilling S.
The Methuen Shilling series present the works of the finest poets in an accessible and popular format. Based on an original series from early in the last century, the shillings reproduce the attractive Edwardian format of those books, reflecting a prestigious publishing history and making some of the gr ...Show more
Smoke Encrypted Whispers by Samuel Wagan Watson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
Exhilarating road poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties are the hallmarks of this popular young poet. Smoke Encrypted Whispers contains poems from all of Samuel Wagan Watson's publications, as well as his unpublished new work. This generous collection opens with his 1999 Unaipon-winning volume Of Mu ...Show more
Swan Song: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
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Category: Literature
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'The new Donna Tartt.' Vogue 'Brilliantly captures Capote's acid wit and his dramatic downfall.' The Times, Books of the Year 'A dazzlingly assured first novel... This clever book, with the moreish astringency of a negroni, is a perfect summer cocktail. ...Show more
That Sight by Marjon Mossamaparast
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literature
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Women's Studies. "As I discovered in putting this collection together, the central impulse in my poetry is duality--what it means to be both body and spirit, alone and together, certain and unsure, permanent and sti ...Show more
The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
$6.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
In 1869, at the age of twenty-four, Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel, a remarkable position for one of his age. The Birth of Tragedy, published in 1872, was his first significant publication. It did little, however, to help his reputation as ...Show more