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  • Intimate Antipathies

    by Luke Carman ...
    IntimateAntipathiesis the much-anticipated new book by Luke Carman, the award-winning author ofthe cult classic An Elegant Young Man. The essays in this collectionfollow the writer in his oscillations through anxiety, outrage and ecstasy, andin the process explore the connections between writing and dreaming, writingand mental illness, writing and the complications of family life.Fromhis famous ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Second City

    New Essays from Western Sydney

    Edited by Luke Carman, Catriona Menzies-Pike ...
    Second City is a showcase of the diverse literary talents that make Sydney's Western Suburbs such a fertile region for writers. Beginning with Prime Minister's Award-winning author Felicity Castagna's warning about the dangers of cultural labelling, this collection of essays takes resistance against conformity and uncritical consensus as one of its central themes.From Aleesha Paz's call to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • An Ordinary Ecstasy

    by Luke Carman ...
    A new collection of stories by the award-winning author of An Elegant Young Man and Intimate Antipathies**.**The seven stories that make up An Ordinary Ecstasy explore the lives of people whose days are awash with enigma, wonder, and epiphany: a musician who rides the winding railway up into the mountains at dusk, the lost retiree who walks the streets of his suburb at dawn, the new lover... ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Gerald Murnane

    Another World in This One

    by Tristan Foster, Luke Carman, Shannon Burns, Samantha Trayhurn, Emmett Stinson, Brigid Rooney, Mark Byron, Suzie Gibson, Arka Chattopadhyay, Ivor Indyk, Gerald Murnane ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Gerald Murnane is one of Australia's most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as "the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of" and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner.Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

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    A Personal Meditation on the Dangers of Identity

    by Elif Shafak ...
    Series series Penguin Specials
    The Happiness of Blond People by bestselling, multi-award-winning novelist Elif Shafak, author of The Bastard of Istanbul, is a powerful essay on immigration, multiculturalism and the experience of Muslims in Europe - available only as a Penguin Short."You know, I never understand. How come their children are so quiet and well disciplined?""Yeah," said the distressed father, his voice suddenly ... Read more

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  • Woke

    A Guide to Social Justice

    by Titania McGrath ...
    'The book everyone's talking about' The Times (Book of the Year)'Titania McGrath is a genius' Spectator (Book of the Year)'Beautiful classic satire' Ricky Gervais'Hilarious . . . the most artful form of subtle parody' Joe Rogan'Just as Bridget Jones was the embodiment of the anxiety-ridden Nineties feminist, a creation whose diary entries encapsulated all our hopes,... ... Read more

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  • Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra - the irresistible story of an irrepressible woman

    by Anne Aly ...
    From Cairo to Canberra -- the irresistible story of an irrepressible woman'Anne Aly's ... influence will be felt for years to come ... It sinks in how significant she may be to public life.' -- The Good WeekendIn 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and the first counter-terrorism expert to be elected to federal parliament. She was also most probably ... Read more

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  • Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah

    by Alana Valentine ...
    What do you do when you profoundly disagree with someone you love? Wearing a hijab is a touchstone of religious identity, but it is also imbued with a complex array of historical and contemporary meanings. The cultural meaning of the hijab has become a wedge between generations.At the heart of Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah is the relationship between an aunt and her niece. Both devout Muslims, the ... Read more

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  • Fifty Shades of Feminism

    by Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach, Rachel Holmes ...
    Half a century after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink?In this volume, fifty women young and old - writers, politicians, actors, scientists, mothers - reflect on the shades that inspired them and what being woman means ... Read more

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  • Growing Up African in Australia

    Edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke ...
    I was born in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.My dad was a freedom fighter, waging war for an independent state: South Sudan.We lived in a small country town, in the deep south of Western Australia.I never knew black people could be Muslim until I met my North African friends.My mum and my dad courted illegally under the Apartheid regime.My first impression of Australia was a housing commission in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism

    by Titania McGrath ...
    'Fabulously smart and entertaining . . . If virtue-signalling wokery drives you as nuts as it drives me, you will love it' Piers Morgan'Required reading for anyone needing an antidote to the mass hysteria of humanity's latest religion' Entertainment FocusAfter the success of her debut Woke: A Guide to Social Justice, radical slam poet and intersectional feminist Titania McGrath has turned her ... Read more

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  • The Lot

    by Michael Leunig ...
    Musings from a truly original thinker on eveything under the sun and many things over the moon.There are few aspects of existence to which Michael Leunig has not turned his renaissance mind, as a bemused and committed member of the human plight. From his cartoonist's sensibilities comes a peculiar journalism made of parable, memoir and soliloquy, on subjects ranging from the sublime to the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD