William Blake: The Great Poets Series by William Blake
Category: Literature | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour' William Blake William Blake was a poet and artist. Born in Soho in the eighteenth century, the son of a shopkeeper, he is now acclaimed as a radical left-field ar ...Show more
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
Category: Literature
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is an ember storm of a novel. This is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pit ...Show more
Dark As Last Night by Tony Birch
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
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
Category: Literature | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
Riots I Have Known by Ryan Chapman
Category: Literature
"Dazzling...Supremely mischievous and sublimely written, this is a stellar work."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) An electric, uproarious, and biting debut novel set during a prison riot, told in a high-comic pitch in the tradition of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. An ...Show more
Dancing By The Light of The Moon: Over 250 Poems to Read, Relish and Recite by Gyles Brandreth
Category: Literature
Pre-order Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion Includes an updated chapter of poems to bring you hope and happiness this year 'Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness' ...Show more
Women of Troy by Euripides
Category: Literature | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family members are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translatio ...Show more
The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems by David Brooks
Category: Literature
A stunning new work of poetry combined with a selection of the best of David Brooks' award-winning career A bottle of Romanee Conti sells for $785,000, while bodies are dug by hand from earthquake rubble in Indonesia because the local government couldn't afford the earth-moving equipment to do so while ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
Category: Literature
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. <b><i>Somewhere Becoming Rain</b></i> gathers all of James’s writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time. The greatness of Larkin’ ...Show more
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems by Wanda Coleman
Category: Literature
'Hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent' Mary Karr 'Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent' Washington Post Nobody wrote about police hassle like she did. Nobody wrote about making ends meet, about the history of the slave trade or the comedy of the daily grind, with the sa ...Show more