The Australian Long Story by Mandy Sayer
$39.95 AUD
Category: Essays
A TREASURE TROVE OF THE FINEST AUSTRALIAN WRITING In this collection, acclaimed writer Mandy Sayer brings together nine of the best Australian examples of the long story - tales that combine the intensity of the short story with the complexity of a novel. In these stories, characters grow up, hook ...Show more
The Atlantic Ocean : Essays on Britain and America by Andrew O'Hagan
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Category: Essays
As he grew up, Andrew O'Hagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of British industry and the rise of Blair and the tabloids. This collection of essays tells the story of that period in our cultural and political life. Through the reported essays that first made O'Hagan's n ...Show more
Griffith Review 25: After the Crisis by Schultz Julianne Various Authors
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review
The global financial crisis is different to other recessions. It challenges many economic fundamentals. Its resolution will fundamentally change the world and the way business is done. After the Crisis projects this new future, analyses the causes and historic parallels, examines the limits of the grow ...Show more
Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant
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Category: Essays
When Joe Bageant returned to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, he rediscovered his redneck roots: 'the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks'. But he soon realised that these were the very people who had carried George W. Bush to victory. ...Show more
The Brain-Dead Megaphone by George Saunders
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Category: Essays
In this, his first collection of essays, Saunders trains his eye on the real world rather than the fictional and reveals it to be brimming with wonderful, marvellous strangeness. As he faces a political and cultural reality saturated with lazy media, false promises and political doublespeak, Saunders in ...Show more
Guilt About the Past by Bernhard Schlink
$26.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Guilt is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how events of the past can affect a nation's future. Written in Bernhard Schlink's eloquent but accessible style, it taps in to worldwide interest in the aftermath of war and how to forgive and reconcile the various legacies of the past.
Best Australian Essays 2008 by MARR David
$29.95 AUD
Category: Essays
These essays capture and illuminate the themes of an eventful year, demonstrating the quality of our writers across a range of topics as well as the vitality of the essay as a form of commentary, analysis and exploration.
Bamboo by William Boyd
$29.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Throughout his career as a novelist, William Boyd has never stopped writing non-fiction, providing a fascinating counterpoint to the world of his novels. Bamboo gathers together Boyd's writing on literature, art, the movie business, television, people he has met, places he has visited and autobiographi ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 31 - Now or Neve r: A Sustainable Future for Australia? by Tim Flannery
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth's regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge? This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the twe ...Show more
On Rage by GERMAINE GREER
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Category: Essays | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
A passionate and powerfully worded essay about Aboriginal rage is a provocation that will cause heated and intense debate. The author is at her best here in this exploration of the seeds of rage and its corollary - grief.
My Reading Life by Carr Bob
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Carr is renowned for his erudition, but what are his favourite books and why does he read them? What does he believe all thinking citizens of the West should read? He speaks of his profound love of reading, examining the reasons why certain books have so captured his attention.
The Paris Review Interviews: vol. 2 by Philip Gourevitch
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Category: Essays | Series: The Paris Review
Volume One received blanket review coverage and was acclaimed by readers and critics alike. Word about "The Paris Review" is spreading more and more widely. Canongate is now the UK distributor of "The Paris Review Magazine". Graham Greene, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip Larkin, Raymond ...Show more