How to Live. What To Do.: In search of ourselves in life and literature by Josh Cohen
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Category: Literature
'This is a really beautiful book...It's a genuinely therapeutic read - it takes your particular sorrows and by sharing them seems to halve them' Nick Laird'By the end of this wonderful book, we have learned to read its title not as a prescription but as a set of questions. Neither novels nor psychoanaly ...Show more
Talking About a Revolution by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
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Category: Literature
With her trademark optimism, sass, boldness and search for answers, across a collection of new and revisited essays, Yassmin Abdel-Magied explores resistance, transformation, and revolution. Yassmin Abdel-Magied started out a dynamic, optimistic, naive, youthful grass-roots organiser and oil rig worker ...Show more
The Road to Middlemarch - My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead
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Category: Literature
What would happen if I stopped to consider how Middlemarch has shaped my understanding of my own life? Why did the novel still feel so urgent, after all these years? And what could it give me now, as I paused here in the middle of things, and surveyed where I had come from, and thought about where I was ...Show more
Odd Hours by Ania Bas
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Category: Literature
Odd Hours is a whip-smart social comedy for those of us who feel that life is a game where someone else has stolen the rules... 'Odd Hours wove a spell on me, by the end my heart was VERY full of love and happiness' - Marian Keyes For Gosia, life is something that happens to other people. About to turn ...Show more
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Literature
A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP ACROSS THIS LINE From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey ...Show more
Killing Darcy by Melissa Lucashenko
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Category: Literature
First published in 1998 and written for young adults, a tale of murder and prejudice from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Too Much Lip.Angry young Koori Darcy Mango is on parole and looking for his mob in Northern New South Wales. Befriending the Menzies family wasn't at all what he had in mi ...Show more
The Joy of Small Things by Hannah Jane Parkinson
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Category: Literature
Drawn from the popular Guardian column these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you through dismal days.Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown ('like bathing in marshmallow'), finds calm in solo cinema trips, is ...Show more
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
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Category: Literature
This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real life collides with the world accessed through a screen. It's about where we go when existential threats loom and high-stakes reality claims us back. It's about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof tha ...Show more
Dark As Last Night by Tony Birch
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Category: Literature
A masterful new story collection from award-winning 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 of ...Show more
Heart of the Grass Tree by Molly Murn
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Category: Literature
When Pearl's grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly, Pearl and her family - mother Diana, sister Lucy - return to Kangaroo Island to mourn and farewell her. Each of them knew Nell intimately but differently, and each woman must reckon with Nell's passing in her own way. But Nell had secrets, too. As Pearl, ...Show more
Women I Know by Katerina Gibson
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Category: Literature
Unpicking the stitches of gender and genre, the stories in this searing, funny, haunting debut explore how our ideas of womanhood shape us, and what they cost us.'My God darling - the women I know.'A young woman tries to cheat her algorithm, creating a wholesome online persona while her 'real' life diss ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the Kings Muske ...Show more