The Sounds of Poetry - A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literature
The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art, Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 80 No 1 by Jonathan Green
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Australia is the fourth biggest country in the world for QAnon social media content and discussion, and its fans are a wide ranging group, from celebrity chef Pete Evans to federal MP's like George Christensen. Margaret Simons wonders what brings them all together, why ideas like the theories promoted b ...Show more
Shakespeare Biographic Great Lives in Graphic Form by Viv Croot
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Biographic
The Biographies series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots. The result is a quickfir ...Show more
Phantom of the Opera by LEROUX Gaston
$12.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
'...the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death's-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were face to face with Satan...' Erik, the Phantom of the Paris Opera House, is one of the great icons of horror literature. This tormented and disfigured creature has ...Show more
Jason and Medea: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #18 by Apollonius (Rhodius)
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Category: Literature | Series: Little Black Classics
'The Argonauts were terrified at the sight. But Jason planting his feet apart stood to receive them, as a reef in the sea confronts the tossing billows in a gale.' The tragic, epic love affair that allowed Jason to get the Golden Fleece. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th b ...Show more
Shelf Respect - A Book Lover's Defence by Little Brown Little Brown Book Group UK
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Decluttering is all the rage, but what do you do when your preferred style of interior decor is miles of overstuffed bookshelves? If you can't bring yourself to KonMari your collection, SHELF RESPECT will validate your life choices. The perfect gift for the book lover in your life: a celebration of the ...Show more
The Family by Naomi Krupitsky
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself. Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate. Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ev ...Show more
A Glass Of Blessings by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLARE CHAMBERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'The subtlest of her books . . . the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art' PHILIP LARKINWilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, go ...Show more
Resilience: A Celebration of Poetry, Fiction and Essays From Mascara Literary Review by Michelle Cahill, Monique Nair, Anthea Yang
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Resilience looks upwards to the ever-changing, ever-present skies, where fingers and fist touch the horizon. Resilience is often deeply imagined and hard won. Resilience, by turn, is fervent, supple, rhizomatic, generative. Like the beguiling evenness of an orchid, resilience is enduring and delicate. T ...Show more
The Beautiful Fall by Hugh Breakey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Read this now. Right now. Don't even think of going near that door. Not until you know what's going on. Your name is Robert Penfold. Age 31. The apartment you're standing in is your home. Every 179 days Robbie forgets everything. He knows this because last time it happened he wrote himself a letter expl ...Show more
Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts by Kathryn Harkup
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
An in-depth look at the science behind the creative methods Shakespeare used to kill off his characters. In Death By Shakespeare, Kathryn Harkup, best-selling author of A is for Arsenic and expert on the more gruesome side of science, turns her expertise to William Shakespeare and the creative methods ...Show more
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library editionWhen Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead m ...Show more