The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
Category: Literature
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blo ...Show more
On Reckoning by Amy Remeikis
Category: Literature | Series: On Ser.
What happens when the usual political tactics of deflect and dodge are no longer enough? A reckoning. The Guardian's political reporter Amy Remeikis has spoken before about being a survivor of sexual assault, but Brittany Higgins going public with her story ripped the curtain back not just on political ...Show more
Always Will Be: Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the Futures of the Tweed by Mykaela Saunders
Category: Literature
From the 2022 David Unaipon winner comes an outstanding and timely collection of speculative fiction imagining futures where Indigenous sovereignty is fully reasserted. In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question- what might country, community and c ...Show more
Books that Made Us: The companion to the ABC TV series by Carl Reinecke
Category: Literature
A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction. Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the ABC TV series, Carl Reinecke looks at th ...Show more
Gatherings by the Lighthouse - An Anthology Poets' Corner 2017 - 18 by POETS' CORNER
Category: Literature
Such A Sweet Singing: Poetry To Empower Every Woman by Kirsty Gunn (edited by)
Category: Literature
A beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the people who read them. Here is poetry for those no longer being spoken to but speaking, no longer being looked at but looking, from the contemporary voices of Fiona Benson and Jane Yeh to the evocative imagery of Christina Rossetti, Anna ...Show more
Robert Burns: The Great Poets Series by Robert Burns
Category: Literature | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert Burns Robert Burns, poet and lyricist, also known as Rabbie Burns, is widely regarded as the National Poet of Scotland - and much of his work has become part of everyday modern language: 'The best laid schemes o' m ...Show more
The Mirror And The Light: RSC Stage Adaptation by Hilary Mantel, Ben Miles
Category: Literature | Series: Wolf Hall Ser.
Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles' exhilarating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021's must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn's fate has been sealed by a hired French executioner. it now be ...Show more
PENinsula Literary Journal Issue One by PENinsula Literary Journal (Editor, Introductions and notes by Emily Westmoreland and Celeste Deliyiannis, Prepared for Publication by Emily Westmoreland)
Category: Literature
PENinsula is an annual literary journal celebrating writing and landscape photography from the Mornington Peninsula. From the back beaches to the foreshore, issue one is a blend of nature writing, personal essays and short fiction. Showcasing twelve local writers and seven photographers, PENinsula is th ...Show more
Old Seems to be Other People by Lily Brett
Category: Literature
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gently ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine by Various
Category: Literature
Poets have always looked to the skies for inspiration, and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in the cosmos. This anthology serves as a truly holistic and global survey to a lyric conversation about the divine that has been going on fo ...Show more
She Is Haunted by Paige Clark
Category: Literature
I know lots of things now that I'm dead. Peter from Apartment Two has a spastic bladder. My former boss Morgan keeps her toenails in a gold jewellery box. My brother and his wife are trying for a baby. I always excuse myself before things get too heated.I don't know much about my mother yet. I am waitin ...Show more