After the Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007 [PB] Available
Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman
Provocative and compelling, After the Celebration captures the key themes and issues in Australian fiction: where we have been and what we have become.
The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction [PB] Available
Ken Gelder & Rachael Weaver (eds)
A unique collection of disturbing mysteries and gruesome tales that tap into the fears and anxieties of Australian life.
The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction [PB] Available
Ken Gelder & Rachael Weaver (eds)
This anthology collects the best examples of Australian gothic short stories from colonial times.
Australian Children's Books: A Bibliography, Volume 1, 1774-1972 [HB] Available
Marcie Muir
An essential reference for all those who have come to appreciate the extraordinary richness of Australian writing for children.
Miegunyah
Australian Children's Books: A Bibliography, Volume 2, 1973-1988 [HB] Available
Kerry White
An essential reference for all those who have come to appreciate the extraordinary richness of Australian writing for children.
Miegunyah
Crème de la Phlegm: Unforgettable Australian Reviews [HB] Available
Angela Bennie
Awards: 2007 APA Book Design Awards Shortlist: Best Designed Non-fiction book (text)
'This book is stupendously bad, the crème de la phlegm of memoirs. . .'
Miegunyah
Departures: How Australia Reinvents Itself [PB] Available
Xavier Pons (ed.)
Departures of every kind have shaped Australian culture. This stimulating and energetic collection of essays investigates how Australia reinvents itself.
Explorations in Creative Writing [PB] Available
Kevin Brophy
This is a book for anyone who has ever tried to write a poem, a story, or an account of their life (nearly everyone?).
A Foucault Primer: Discourse, Power and the Subject [PB] Available
Alec McHoul and Wendy Grace
Concentrates on some of the central concepts in Foucault's voluminous and complex writings.
Interpretations
Green Pens: A Collection of Garden Writing [HB] Available
Katie Holmes, Susan K. Martin, Kylie Mirmohamadi
A charming selection of clippings from gardeners who love to write and writers who love their garden.
Marcus Clarke's Bohemia: Literature and Modernity in Colonial Melbourne, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Andrew McCann
An in-depth study that unearths the richness of Marcus Clarke's writing and brings nineteenth-century Melbourne to life.
Academic Monograph
Marcus Clarke's Bohemia: Literature and Modernity in Colonial Melbourne, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Andrew McCann
An in-depth study that unearths the richness of Marcus Clarke's writing and brings nineteenth-century Melbourne to life.
Academic Monograph
Meanjin: Blak Times: Indigenous Australia, Vol. 65, No 1 [PB] Available
Meanjin: Rock 'n' Roll, Vol. 65, No 3 [PB] Available
A dazzling variety of leading musicians and writers explore the nature of rock 'n' roll , what it means to them--personally, aesthetically, culturally, politically--and what it means to us as a country.
Meanjin: Poco/Globo, Vol. 66, No 2 [PB] Available
Meanjin: The Best of New Writing in Australia, Vol. 67, No 2 [PB] Available
Sophie Cunningham (ed.)
You might notice a few changes in the next edition of Meanjin, now that new editor Sophie Cunningham has taken the helm.
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Meanjin, Vol 67, No. 4 [PB] Available
Sophie Cunningham (Ed.)
The December edition of Meanjin includes David Astle on cryptic crosswords, Morris Gleitzman on the dark side of writing for kids and James Bradley on Battlestar Galactica.
Meanjin, Vol 68, No. 1 [PB] Available
Sophie Cunningham (Ed.)
Features new writing by Declan Kelly, Nam Le, Mark Dapin, Lynden Hyatt, John Kinsella, Louise Swinn, Clive James, Dorothy Porter, and more.
Meanjin, Vol 68, No. 2 [PB] Available
Sophie Cunningham (Ed.)
Includes new writing by Sian Prior, Marcus Westbury, Mark Dapin, Bruce Pascoe, Caroline Lee, and more.
Meanjin, Vol 68, No. 3 [PB] Available
Sophie Cunningham (Ed.)
Includes new writing by Sian Prior, Mark Mordue, Carolyn Fraser, Ben Eltham, Georgia Blain, and more.
Meanjin, Vol 68, No. 4 [PB] Available
Sophie Cunningham (Ed.)
Features new writing by Jane Gleeson-White, Ben Eltham, Charlotte Wood, David Hansen, Stephen Downes, Morris Lurie, Maya Linden, and more.
Meanjin, Vol 69, No. 1 [PB] Available
Sophie Cunningham (Ed.)
The March edition of Meanjin looks at charisma: of religion, of science, of teachers.
Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2005 [PB] Available
Nobel Foundation
Times may change, but the dramas of existence don't. Nobel Minds attests to the power of literature to shape the world.
Patrick White, Painter Manqué: Paintings, Painters and their Influence on his Writing [HB] Available
Helen Verity Hewitt
It is a little-known fact that a vital source of inspiration for Patrick White was the art of painting. This brilliantly original and revealing book is the first study of this potent source in White's life.
Miegunyah
Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature [PB] Available
Clare Bradford
Awards: Winner of Children's Literature Association Book Award, US
International Research Society of Children's Literature (IRSCL) Award 2003
Reading Race looks at the changing ways in which Australia's indigenous peoples have been--and continue to be--represented in books for children.
Readings/Writings [HB] Available
Greg Dening
Greg Dening has prepared a collection of wonderfully accessible reflections on the meaning and significance of the acts of reading and writing.
Wise Thoughts for Every Day: On Love, Spirit and Living a Good Life [HB] Available
Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Peter Sekirin
A treasury of timeless wisdom by Leo Tolstoy that the author of War and Peace considered his greatest and most enduring contribution to humankind.
