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Defending God
By Harvestime Books. 2002
David Malouf
By Ivor Indyk. 1993
David Malouf is one of Australia's most popular novelists, and also one of its most elusive. Drawing on the whole…
range of his work - fiction, poetry, essays, his plays and his libretti - Ivor Indyk presents Malouf as both a primitive and a romantic, a writer who draws deeply on the rhythms of nature in his expression of dark desires which go largely unrecognised in the social domain.Under the wintamarra tree
By Doris Pilkington. 2002
Doris Pilkington Garimara was born on traditional birthing ground under the Wintamarra tree. This is her life story, which follows…
on from the story of her mother Molly, told in Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. Taken from her family by authorities as a three-year -old, Doris tells her story as an institutional orphan through to her training as a nurses' aide, and finally, her decision as an adult to trace her mother and father.Agamemnon's kiss: selected essays
By Inga Clendinnen. 2006
In this selection of essays, Inga Clendinnen writes about everything from the books that terrified her as a child to…
what history can teach us about ourselves and our own times. She describes visits to the beach and to a museum dedicated to the Holocaust. She recounts the experience of falling ill and the prospect of death. And she writes movingly about other people who have changed her own life. Many of the themes which are central to Clendinnen's work are teased out in Agamemnon's Kiss: the question of black/white relations in Australia, the way we think about the Holocaust and its perpetrators, and the investigative power of history.Alan Marshall's battlers
By Alan Marshall, Gwen Hardisty. 1983
Alan Marshall writing on the poor, the dispossessed, and those who suffered the Great Depression of the 1930's. We meet…
Rattly Bob, the boxer who was paid to lose, a pieman, a street photographer, prostitutes, the 'seagulls', who lived on the food thrown out from ships and the Collingwood poor who heated themselves on "Collingwood Coke" and took their food from rubbish bins. There are Aborigines in the far North and in the city, and the men of the cattle stations; further afield, a Chinese peasant girl, Mongolian tribesmen and the old men of Abkhazia. Marshall also writes of himself, of delerium in hospital, and of his old friends - his crutches.Stories, journalism and criticism by: Kate Grenville, Barbara Hanrahan, Beverley Farmer, Thea Astley, Elizabeth Jolley, Jessica Anderson, Olga Masters and…
Helen Garner - eight voices representing a decade in Australian literature dominated by women.Into the woods: the battle for Tasmania's forests
By Anna Krien. 2010
For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of…
old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage political games are played in the courts and parliaments.In Into the Woods, Anna Krien, armed with a notebook, a sleeping bag and a rusty sedan, ventures behind the battlelines to see what it is like to risk everything for a cause. She speaks to ferals and premiers, sawmillers and whistle-blowers. She investigates personalities and convictions, methods and motives. This is a book about a company that wanted its way and the resistance that eventually forced it to change. Into the Woods is intimate, intrepid reporting by a fearless new voice.Trouble: evolution of a radical : selected writings 1970-2010
By Kate Jennings. 2010
In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally with a pull-no-punches speech that put 'women's lib' on the…
map. Brave, impassioned and searing, the speech set the tone for the idiosyncratic career that was to follow. A few years later, she was on her way to New York, where she would make her name as a writer and enjoy a ringside seat at some of the most confronting events of our time. With a polemical anger tempered by a keen sense of the absurd and a fiercely independent streak, she writes incisively about politics, morality, finance, feminism and the writing life. She describes America with the keen eye of an outsider and looks back at Australia with an expatriate's frankness. Trouble is both an unconventional autobiography and a record of remarkable times. From the protest movements of the 1970s, via Wall Street's heyday and dramatic collapse, to the historic election of Barack Obama, Jennings captures the shifts - seismic and subtle, personal and political - that brought us to where we are now. After four decades, Kate Jennings' work is as exhilarating and impossible to categorise - shocking with the shock of recognition - as the day it was written.Life lines: Australian women's letters and diaries 1788-1840
By Dale Spender, Patricia Clarke. 1992
Leading religion scholar Philip Jenkins reveals a vast Christian world to the east of the Roman Empire and how the…
earliest, most influential churches of the East-those that had the closest link to Jesus and the early church-died. In this paradigm-shifting book, Jenkins recovers a lost history, showing how the center of Christianity for centuries used to be the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, extending as far as China. Without this lost history, we can't understand Islam or the Middle East, especially Iran, Iraq, and Syria.Another day in the colony
By Chelsea Watego. 2021
A ground-breaking work - and a call to arms - that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations…
people.In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out.Drawing on her own experiences and observations of the operations of the colony, she exposes the lies that settlers tell about Indigenous people. In refusing such stories, Chelsea tells her own: fierce, personal, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished. She speaks not of fighting back but of standing her ground against colonialism in academia, in court, and in media. It's a stance that takes its toll on relationships, career prospects, and even the body. Yet when told to have hope, Watego's response rings clear: Fuck hope. Be sovereign.Well hello: meanderings from the world of Chat 10 Looks 3
By Annabel Crabb, Leigh Sales, Miranda Murphy. 2021
In 2014, two of Australia's most high-profile journalists sat at a kitchen table, hit record on a phone and started…
a rambling conversation that's still going on (and on). From books to TV, music to cooking, friendship to films, there's little cultural terrain Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales haven't traversed in their oddly named but nonetheless wildly popular podcast Chat 10 Looks 3.Now, in their first book together, the pair takes a stroll through some of the issues of our time, offering advice for would-be writers, thoughts on developing a rich reading life, tips for navigating the perilous world of social media, and the secrets of a great friendship, all with the digressions that listeners of their podcast have come to love. Here Crabb and Sales discuss kindness, success and failure, and not taking yourself - or others - too seriously, with a liberal sprinkling of fairy wrens, granny pants, show tunes, creative insults, diabolical mum bags and CLANGs.Whether you're a devoted listener of Chat 10 Looks 3, curious as to what all the fuss is about, or simply looking to cry-laugh on public transport, Well Hello is the book for you.Bedtime story
By Chloe Hooper. 2022
Let me tell you a story...When Chloe Hooper's partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she has to…
find a way to tell their two young sons.By instinct, she turns to the bookshelf. Can the news be broken as a bedtime tale? Is there a perfect book to prepare children for loss? Hooper embarks on a quest to find what practical lessons children's literature-with its innocent orphans and evil adults, magic, monsters and anthropomorphic animals-can teach about grief and resilience in real life.As she discovers, 'the right words are an incantation, a spell of hope for the future.' From the Brothers Grimm to Frances Hodgson Burnett and Tolkien and Dahl-all of whom suffered childhood bereavements-she follows the breadcrumbs of the world's favourite authors, searching for the deep wisdom in their books and lives. Both memoir and manual in an age of worldwide uncertainty, here is a profound and moving exploration of the dark and light of storytelling.How we love: notes on a life
By Clementine Ford. 2021
Clementine Ford is a person who has loved deeply, strangely and with curiosity. She is fascinated by love and the…
multiple ways it makes its home in our hearts and believes that the way we continue to surrender ourselves to love is an act of great faith and bravery. This tender and lyrical memoir explores love in its many forms through Clementine's own experiences. With clear eyes and an open heart, she writes about losing her adored mother far too young, about the pain and confusion of first love - both platonic and romantic - and the joy and heartache of adult love. She writes movingly about the transcendent and transformative journey to motherhood and the similarly monumental path to self-love. 'We love as children, as friends, as parents and, yes, sometimes as sexual beings, and none of it is more important than the other because all of it shows us who we are.' How We Love is heartfelt, funny, confessional, revelatory, compassionate - and essential reading. It shows us to ourselves in moments of unwavering truth and undeniable joy.My friend the fanatic: travels with an Indonesian Islamist
By Sadanand Dhume. 2008
My Friend the Fanatic is a portrait of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, painted through the travels of…
a pair of unlikely protagonists. Dhume is a foreign correspondent, an Ivy League-educated Indian with a fondness for John Updike and an interest in economic development. His companion, Henri Nurdi, is a young Islamist who hero-worships Osama bin Laden.Patrick White: a life (Quick Fix Ser.)
By David Marr. 1991
Authorised biography of the famous Australian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize. The central fact of White's life as an…
artist, his homosexuality, which formed the view of himself as an outcast, a stranger, is explored in detail.Provocateur: a life of ideas in action
By Clive Hamilton. 2022
Clive Hamilton has spent a life asking why. In his unique memoir, Provocateur, he shows us why questioning the status…
quo matters, how powerful arguments can change the country, and how the life of ideas in action actually works. From why climate change matters to how we understand ourselves as Australians and the dangers to us of the new authoritarianism - all this and more has been shaped, for better or worse, by public researchers and writers like Hamilton. His work, and that of the Australia Institute he founded, made him many friends as well as powerful enemies. He's been denounced in federal parliament, black-handed by the Chinese Communist Party and sued by an angry corporation. He's had to call in the police after death threats and take a crash course in counter-surveillance techniques. But he has also influenced the quality of the air Australians breathe, the cost of our education and how we see Australia's place in the world. In Provocateur, we see the passions, the doubts, the strategizing, the fears, the victories, the mistakes and the questioning. Here is a blueprint for changing public debate in our increasingly uncertain times - proof that ideas are powerful and that a different way into the future is possible.With the falling of the dusk
By Stan Grant. 2021
History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of…
the 'end of history' and the triumph of liberal democracy in 1989. Now, with the inexorable rise and rise of China, the ascendancy of authoritarianism and the retreat of democracy, the world stands at a moment of crisis. This is a time of momentous upheaval and enormous geopolitical shifts, compounded by global pandemics, looming world depression, Islamist and far right terror, and a resurgent white supremacy. The world is in lockdown and the showdown with China is accelerated - and while the West has been at the forefront of history for 200 years, it must now adapt to a world it no longer dominates. At this moment, we stand on a precipice - what will become of us? Stan Grant is one of our foremost observers and chroniclers of the world in crisis. Weaving his personal experiences of reporting from the front lines of the world's flashpoints, together with his deep understanding of politics, history and philosophy, he explores what is driving the world to crisis and how it might be averted. From China to North Korea and Northern Ireland to South Africa and the Middle East - Stan captures this moment of democracy in retreat and authoritarianism on the march. He fears for the worst, but begins to chart the way forward. There is bitterness, anger and history here, but there is also the capacity for negotiation, forgiveness and hope.The whispering wall: Lethal House, Silent Witness, Talking Wall
By Patricia Carlon. 1992
Sarah is a stroke victim who has lost the power of speech and movement. Lying in her bed she overhears…
through the walls of a plan by her tenants to murder someone. Sarah must warn the other members of the household before it is too late.