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By: Richard Holloway
ISBN: 9781805302919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Publisher: Canongate Books
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Holloway, an inspiring and profound collection of essays reflecting on art, faith, forgiveness, grief and home
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By: Elisabeth Wynhausen
ISBN: 9780733644368
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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Elizabeth Wynhausen tells the story of an extraordinary inspirational character and reflects on the mysterious quality that is resilience. A humorous, irreverent essay that arrives at contentment and joy.
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By: Annika Smethurst
ISBN: 9780733644993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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Little books, big ideas: On June 4, Federal Police raided the home of Walkley award-winning journalist Annika Smethurst, changing her life forever.
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By: Fleur Anderson
ISBN: 9780733644023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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ON SLEEP is the story of our love-hate relationship with slumber. Part-time insomniac Fleur Anderson ponders the big questions: Why can't I sleep Do politicians and other high-fliers ever admit they too are exhausted Do they get enough sleep to make sensible decisions Where is society heading, and why did I have that glass of cab sav
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By: Michel De Montaigne
ISBN: 9780141043852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of reading, and the importance of sleep.
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By: Tony Wheeler
ISBN: 9780733643965
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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By: Mark Scott
ISBN: 9780733643873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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By: George Scialabba
ISBN: 9781804292006
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Verso Books
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Essays on politics, power, and culture from one of America's most eminent critics
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By: Catriona Menzies-Pike
ISBN: 9780648062165
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Sydney Review of Books
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By: David Pryce-Jones
ISBN: 9781641772570
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
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By: Roxane Gay
ISBN: 9781472158642
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, 'a strikingly fresh cultural critic' (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between.
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By: Mary Gaitskill
ISBN: 9781788168151
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.
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By: Hermann Palsson
ISBN: 9780140443837
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1981
UK Publication Date: 30th April 1981
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A Norse saga recounts the conquest of the northern Scottish isles by the Viking kings of Norway during the ninth century.
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By: Ovid
ISBN: 9780906515457
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Contains a continuous running commentary suited to short poems. This book contains the commentary to promote in sixth-formers and undergraduates, not just an understanding of the Latin but also an appreciation of literary quality.
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By: Ovid
ISBN: 9780862921446
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This intermediate reader offers text, vocabulary, and notes. The notes focus on fine points of grammar and rhetoric, shades of meaning, and allusions to both classical and modern literature.
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By: Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN: 9781784877040
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Wolfram Eschenbach
ISBN: 9780140443615
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1988
UK Publication Date: 28th August 1980
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A modern translation of the twelfth century German poem tells of Parzival's quest for the Holy Grail and self-perfection as a knight in the resplendent court of King Arthur.
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By: Dr. Martin Paul Eve
ISBN: 9781501314872
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The ubiquitous password is the usually accepted standard for identity in the digital era--this book traces its history, development, and potential futures.
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By: Dr John Beston
ISBN: 9781920899370
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2010
Publisher: Sydney University Press
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Representing the author's interest spanning over thirty-five years, the essays expose White's evocation of dimensions other than material reality, his preoccupation with epiphanies and mythmaking, and his constant forging of a poetic style.
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By: Carol Beggy
ISBN: 9781501392245
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Cher Tan
ISBN: 9781742237992
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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By: Albert Camus
ISBN: 9780241400272
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Plato
ISBN: 9780140449747
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780140434316
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1998
UK Publication Date: 29th January 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Italy's famous sights are all to be found here - St Peter's in Rome, Naples with Vesuvius smouldering in the background and canals of Venice. In this book, the author portrays a nation of great contrasts: between grandiose buildings and squalid poverty, and between past and present, as he observes everyday life beside ancient monuments.
