Essays

Explore bold ideas, personal reflections, and powerful commentary in our Essays collection at Harry Hartog Bookseller. Shop online or in-store for celebrated authors and emerging voices across every subject and style.

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An Inconvenient Place by Jonathan Littell - 9781804271124
$12.00
An Inconvenient Place
Jonathan Littell
What is a place? A place where things happened, horrible things, the traces of which...
The Ruin of Magic by Kate Holden - 9781760644918
$36.99
The Ruin of Magic
Kate Holden
A poetic, roaming work of creativity and intellect Is it possible to live wondrously by...
Blind Spot by Michael Wesley - 9781760645793
$29.99
Blind Spot
Michael Wesley
Australia has forgotten what keeps it safe. So argues Michael Wesley in this sharp and...
Wildwood by Roger Deakin - 9780141010014
$24.99
Wildwood
Roger Deakin
A powerful and yet intimate celebration of trees and all they mean to us Wildwood...
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks - 9781035068371
$24.99
Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks
With his trademark compassion and erudition, Dr Oliver Sacks examines the power of music through...
Greyhound by Joanna Pocock - 9781804271384
$32.99
Greyhound
Joanna Pocock
In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across...
$14.95
The Position of Spoons
Deborah Levy
A feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table,...
Opinions by Roxane Gay - 9780063341463
$16.95
Opinions
Roxane Gay
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, "a strikingly fresh cultural critic" (Washington Post) comes...
89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem by Milan Kundera - 9780571393237
$26.99
89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem
Milan Kundera
89 Words, published in 1985, is an expanded version of the dictionary of sorts that...
Everything in Its Place by Oliver Sacks - 9781035068364
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Everything in Its Place
Oliver Sacks
From the bestselling author of On Gratitude, On the Move and The Man Who Mistook...
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks - 9781035068357
$24.99
An Anthropologist on Mars
Oliver Sacks
In An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways...
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz - 9780679761808
$14.95
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Fran Lebowitz
In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City-The Fran Lebowitz...
Wallflower at the Orgy by Nora Ephron - 9780553385052
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Wallflower at the Orgy
Nora Ephron
A bitingly funny, provocative, and revealing look at our foibles, passions, and pasttimes-from one of...
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole - 9780812989786
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Known and Strange Things
Teju Cole
A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and...
Light and Thread
$29.99
Light and Thread
Han Kang
What is love? It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts. In this light-filled...
The Good Fight by Sean Kelly - 9781760645021
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The Good Fight
Sean Kelly
The 100th issue of Australia's leading agenda-setting journal of politics, culture and debate In Quarterly...
Living Peacefully by Zachary Seager - 9781035045648
$24.99
Living Peacefully
Zachary Seager
In today's turbulent world, it's harder and harder to find a place of calm and...
Attention by Anne Enright - 9781787335783
$36.99
Attention
Anne Enright
A timely, moving, and piercingly intelligent essay collection from one of our finest contemporary writers...
Leaving Home by Zachary Seager - 9781035045631
$24.99
Leaving Home
Zachary Seager
Leaving a place we call home is an experience that we carry with us throughout...
Falling in Love by Zachary Seager - 9781035045655
$24.99
Falling in Love
Zachary Seager
The great subject of love - finding it, keeping it, losing it - has fascinated...
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille - 9780141195575
$26.99
Literature and Evil
Georges Bataille
An extraordinary collection of essays arguing for literature's complicity with evil, new to Penguin Modern...
Calendar by Vanessa Berry - 9781763733114
$34.99
Calendar
Vanessa Berry
A collection of essays in the form of a daybook, written in real-time over a...
Second Hand
The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name In The Street; The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin - 9781841594248
$39.99
The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name In The Street; The Devil Finds Work
James Baldwin
A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's most brilliant essayists, timed to...
No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit - 9781803511641
$36.99
No Straight Road Takes You There
Rebecca Solnit
This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration....
Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman - 9781804271537
$32.99
Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
Ian Penman
Composer, pianist and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Epoque...
Why Read by Will Self - 9781611854213
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Why Read
Will Self
'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's...
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Ruptured by Lee Kofman - 9780646714363
$34.99
Ruptured
Lee Kofman
In this powerful collection of personal essays, thirty-six Australian Jewish women, including Ramona Koval, Dani...
The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman - 9781472208019
$12.00
The View from the Cheap Seats
Neil Gaiman
THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS draws together, for the first time ever, a myriad...
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