What's it Like to be Chased by a Cassowary? Fascinating answers to perplexing questions: The most informative and entertaining explainers from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald by Felicity Lewis (ed.)
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Category: Literature
Ever wondered what happens to us as we die? Or how the Esky became an Aussie cultural icon? Or why we have leap years? Then look no further - and even if you haven't wondered, you'll want to find out. This anthology is a diverse collection of explainers by some of the finest writers from The Age and The ...Show more
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
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Category: Literature
From the winner of the Windham Campbell Prize Winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Longlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards for Non-Fict ...Show more
The Poetry of W B Yeats by W B Yeats
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Category: Poetry
W.B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 for his inspired poetry.
Dark As Last Night by Tony Birch
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Category: Short Stories
A multi-award-winning story collection from bestselling Indigenous writer Tony Birch.Dark as Last Night confirms, once again, that Tony Birch is a master of the short story. These exceptional stories capture the importance of human connection at pivotal moments in our lives, whether those occur because ...Show more
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
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Category: Poetry
The #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. This clothbound edition features deckled edg ...Show more
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
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Category: Poetry
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and th ...Show more
Robert Burns: The Great Poets Series by Robert Burns
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert Burns Robert Burns, poet and lyricist, also known as Rabbie Burns, is widely regarded as the National Poet of Scotland - and much of his work has become part of everyday modern language: 'The best laid schemes o' m ...Show more
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey
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Category: Poetry
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY. "Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each wo ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Essays
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Old Seems to be Other People by Lily Brett
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Category: Literature
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gently ...Show more
Pas de Deux by Indrani Perera
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Category: Poetry
Twenty-two years after her first book of poetry was published, award-winning author Indrani Perera is back with her second, much anticipated collection of poems. Indrani invites us to dance with the rhythm of her words - to sway, twist and twirl through them on a journey deep into the heart of creativit ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
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Category: Literature
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. <b><i>Somewhere Becoming Rain</b></i> gathers all of James’s writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time. The greatness of Larkin’ ...Show more