Essays

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Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson - 9781447223900
$12.00
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
$36.99
Dead and Alive
Zadie Smith
An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers...
Hard New World by Hugh White - 9781760645007
$29.99
Hard New World
Hugh White
What is Australia's place in the new global landscape? Are we ready for our post-American...
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit - 9781803512341
$14.99
Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit
Published as a standalone on International Woman's Day, the essay that became a touchstone of...
Silent Catastrophes by W. G. Sebald - 9780241144190
$55.00
Silent Catastrophes
W. G. Sebald
From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings...
Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper - 9780385343985
$9.00
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 by Jess Hill - 9781760644994
$29.99
Losing It
Jess Hill
What will it take to stop gendered violence? What went wrong? Australian governments promised to...
What's the Big Idea? by Various Authors - 9781763662124
$34.99
What's the Big Idea?
Various Authors
Leading thinkers from Australia and around the world outline how we can make change for...
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz - 9780349019628
$22.99
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Fran Lebowitz
Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without...
Intimations by Zadie Smith - 9780593297612
$9.95
Intimations
Zadie Smith
The New York Times Bestseller "[Smith's] slim collection of essays captures this peculiar moment with...
Talk Stories by Jamaica Kincaid - 9781529077049
$24.99
Talk Stories
Jamaica Kincaid
'Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing' - Chicago Tribune Talk Stories is a collection of...
October, or Autumnal Tints by Henry David Thoreau - 9780393081886
$13.95
October, or Autumnal Tints
Henry David Thoreau
Originally delivered as a lecture shortly before the writer's own death, Henry David Thoreau's classic...
How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco - 9781787302662
$12.99
How to Spot a Fascist
Umberto Eco
HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on the themes...
Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson - 9781035039203
$24.99
Lost at Sea
Jon Ronson
'Funny and thought provoking' - Financial Times Fascinated by madness, strange behaviour and the human...
The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath - 9780571377640
$75.00
The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
The complete edition of Sylvia Plath's prose including much unpublished and previously uncollected material, edited...
Essays That Changed Australia by Esther Anatolitis - 9780522880977
$34.99
Essays That Changed Australia
Esther Anatolitis
A curated collection of essays that shaped Australia's culture and society Since the 1940s, Meanjin...
More Big Questions by Paul Davies - 9780733306686
$9.00
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 by T. S. Eliot - 9780571295548
$65.00
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...
The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 1 by T. S. Eliot - 9780571295487
$89.99
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...
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson - 9781035039036
$24.99
Them: Adventures with Extremists
Jon Ronson
'Funny and compulsively readable' - Louis Theroux What if a tiny, shadowy elite rule the...
The Foreigner by Richard Sennett - 9781907903083
$10.50
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 by David Grossman - 9781787335509
$26.99
The Thinking Heart
David Grossman
A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul,...
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
$39.99
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...
A Silent Language by Jon Fosse - 9781804271230
$14.99
A Silent Language
Jon Fosse
'If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have...
Who Killed My Father by Edouard Louis - 9781787301221
$10.50
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 by Duncan Minshull - 9780008414146
$10.50
Where My Feet Fall
Duncan Minshull
The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022Where can a walk take you? It goes without...
$16.95
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...
Through the Children's Gate by Adam Gopnik - 9781400075751
$10.95
Through the Children's Gate
Adam Gopnik
Not long after Adam Gopnik returned to New York at the end of 2000 with...