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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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Lost at Sea
Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson is fascinated by madness, extraordinary behaviour and the human mind. He has spent...
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Dead and Alive
Zadie Smith
An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers...
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Hard New World
Hugh White
What is Australia's place in the new global landscape? Are we ready for our post-American...
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Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit
Published as a standalone on International Woman's Day, the essay that became a touchstone of...
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Silent Catastrophes
W. G. Sebald
From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings...
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Homer's Odyssey
Gwen Cooper
ONCE IN NINE LIVES, SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENS. The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another...
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Losing It
Jess Hill
What will it take to stop gendered violence? What went wrong? Australian governments promised to...
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What's the Big Idea?
Various Authors
Leading thinkers from Australia and around the world outline how we can make change for...
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Fran Lebowitz
Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without...
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Intimations
Zadie Smith
The New York Times Bestseller "[Smith's] slim collection of essays captures this peculiar moment with...
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Talk Stories
Jamaica Kincaid
'Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing' - Chicago Tribune Talk Stories is a collection of...
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October, or Autumnal Tints
Henry David Thoreau
Originally delivered as a lecture shortly before the writer's own death, Henry David Thoreau's classic...
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How to Spot a Fascist
Umberto Eco
HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on the themes...
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Lost at Sea
Jon Ronson
'Funny and thought provoking' - Financial Times Fascinated by madness, strange behaviour and the human...
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The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
The complete edition of Sylvia Plath's prose including much unpublished and previously uncollected material, edited...
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Essays That Changed Australia
Esther Anatolitis
A curated collection of essays that shaped Australia's culture and society Since the 1940s, Meanjin...
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More Big Questions
Paul Davies
Based on the TV series of the same name, this book identifies and teases out...
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The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 4
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth...
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The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 1
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth...
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Them: Adventures with Extremists
Jon Ronson
'Funny and compulsively readable' - Louis Theroux What if a tiny, shadowy elite rule the...
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The Foreigner
Richard Sennett
Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this...
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The Thinking Heart
David Grossman
A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul,...
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
David Graeber
Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's...
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A Silent Language
Jon Fosse
'If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have...
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Who Killed My Father
Edouard Louis
The non-fiction companion to The End of Eddy- a short, powerful personal-political essay addressed to...
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Where My Feet Fall
Duncan Minshull
The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022Where can a walk take you? It goes without...
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What Are We Doing Here?
Marilynne Robinson (University of Iowa)
New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson...
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Through the Children's Gate
Adam Gopnik
Not long after Adam Gopnik returned to New York at the end of 2000 with...
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