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The best Australian essays 2006
By Drusilla Modjeska. 2006
It has been a good year for essays. The latest Best Essays annual contains life and travel stories, explorations of…
art and politics, that will illuminate and divert. There is Robert Hughes on Rembrandt, and Gideon Haigh on Google. J.M. Coetzee on translation, and David Malouf on Shakespeare. Robyn Davidson goes to Tibet, and Hazel Rowley to Brazil in search of Sartre and de Beauvoir. And there are pieces on many of the year’s key political and social stories that bring depth and eloquence to the public conversation.The best Australian essays 2004
By Robert Dessaix. 2004
A rich and diverse collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's most respected writers, Robert Dessaix. It ranges across…
a variety of styles: some selections are quirkily seductive, others urgent and persuasive, still others spell-binding lieterary performances. Richard Flanagan writes an impassioned piece on Tasmania's forests, Thomas Keneally charmingly recounts the beginnings of "Schindler's Ark", and Marion Halligan and Ane-Marie Priest provide two different takes on the erotics of reading. Other contributors to this edition include: John Birmingham, J.M. Coetzee, M.J. Hyland, Peter Mares and Chris Wallace-Crabbe as well as many more.The best Australian essays 2017
By Anna Goldsworthy. 2017
The Best Australian Essays showcase the nation's most eloquent, insightful and urgent non-fiction writing. In her first time as editor,…
award-winning author Anna Goldsworthy chooses brilliant pieces that provoke, unveil, engage and enlighten, and get to the heart of what's really happening in Australia and the world. Previous contributors include Helen Garner, J.M. Coetzee, Karen Hitchcock, Tim Flannery, Robyn Davidson, Richard Flanagan, Clive James, Don Watson, Tim Winton and Caroline Baum.The best Australian essays 2016
By Geordie Williamson. 2016
In The Best Australian Essays 2016, Geordie Williamson curates the year’s best non-fiction writing from Australia’s finest writers. The result…
is a collection that reads as a wake-up call: from Jo Chandler on the devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and Richard Flanagan on the Syrian exodus to Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani’s inside account of life on Manus Island. There is also space for Bowie, TV box-sets and Aussie rules. Spanning politics, music, literature, art, ecology, linguistics and more, this anthology showcases the nation’s most eloquent and insightful writing.The best Australian essays 2015
By Geordie Williamson. 2015
In The Best Australian Essays 2015, Geordie Williamson compiles the year’s outstanding short non-fiction. Read Helen Garner on condescension, DBC…
Pierre on travel, Ceridwen Dovey on autobiography, Tim Winton on injury, Anna Krien on first love, and Nicolas Rothwell on the northern coast. With bracing essays on politics, music, literature, history, art, sport and more, this impressive anthology will entrance, stimulate and entertain.The best Australian essays 2013
By Robert Manne. 2013
In The Best Australian Essays 2013, Robert Manne draws out this year’s most distinctive voices. This superb collection encompasses the…
personal, with Robert Dessaix’s distant summer of love and touch-typing and Helen Garner’s reaction to the death of Jill Meagher; and the political, with Chloe Hooper and Pamela Williams reflecting on the last days in office of Gillard and Rudd, while Christos Tsiolkas tells us why we hate asylum seekers and Julian Assange warns of the internet’s threat to civilisation. In the spaces between, Richard Flanagan and Murray Bail peer into the world of art, David Free savours the legacy of Monty Python, Julian Meyrick remembers Margaret Thatcher, and Tim Flannery reveals the terrors of jellyfish.The best Australian essays 2011
By Ramona Koval. 2011
The Best Australian Essays 2011 offers up bliss and illumination in equal measure - from the pleasures of the flesh…
to the events that convulsed the world in a year of change. Paul Kelly meditates on Frank Sinatra, and Robert Manne excavates the past and thoughts of Julian Assange. Inga Clendinnen dreams on cricket memories, and Anna Krien delves into the saga of the St Kilda schoolgirl. There is Peter Robb on Italian food, Anthony Lane on News of the World, Gail Bell on rats and Richard Flanagan on photography. This is a collection with something for everyone that never wavers in its quality. Contributors include: Gillian Mears, David Malouf, Nicolas Rothwell, Robert Manne, Anthony Lane, M.J. Hyland, Craig Sherborne, Anna Krien, Inga Clendinnen, Gail Bell, Helen Elliott, Morris Lurie, Maria Tumarkin, Andrew Sant, Shakira Hussein, Lian Hearn, Amanda Lohrey, Paul Kelly, Peter Robb, Clive James, Delia Falconer, Richard Flanagan and Andrew O'Hagan.The best Australian essays 2005
By Robert Dessaix. 2005
The Best Australian Essays 2005 is a rich and diverting collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's finest writers,…
Robert Dessaix. It ranges across a variety of styles: some selections are quirkily seductive, others urgent and persuasive while still others are spellbinding literary performances. This selection includes visits to Freud's art collection, to the beach and to the end of the world. There are film-star portraits and political dissections, quirky stories, nostalgic journeys and up-to-the-minute social analyses.Anything we love can be saved: a writer's activism
By Alice Walker. 2005
From the author of The Color Purple, a unique collection of essays about her life and her activism. In a…
world where cynicism and political apathy is commonplace, Alice Walker believes that the things we treasure, and the world we live in, can all be saved if only we will act. Beginning with an autobiographical essay about the roots of her own activism, she then goes on to explore diverse public issues such as single parenthood, freedom of the press, civil rights and religion.White limbo: the first Australian climb of Mt Everest
By Lincoln Hall. 1985
The author chronicles the mountaineering hazards and joys experienced by the first four Australians on Everest. Menaced constantly by avalanches…
and treacherous ice, they also suffered altitude intoxication, which made the author foolishly jump a bottomless crevasse.No job for a girl
By Susan Swaney. 1993
When the author set up a veterinary practice in Western Victoria, there was resistance because she was a woman and…
there was the rugged climate to get used to. This is a diary of twelve months in the author's life as a vet, farmer and mother.Shearers' motel
By Roger McDonald. 1992
Set in the hard-living world of travelling shearers in the Australian outback, Roger McDonald cooks for a team of New…
Zealand shearers travelling through N.S.W., S.A. and Victoria and searches for a sense of belonging.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.Killer Koala: Humorous Aussie Short Stories
By Kenneth Cook. 1986
In "The Killer Koala" the author has gathered a selection of hilarious stories culled from his various experiences while travelling…
all over Australia, from the red deserts, to the jungles, to remote parts of the Great Barrier Reef.Empire, war, tennis and me
By Peter Charles Doherty. 2022
For those who look, and think deeply, new connections emerge. Peter Doherty, one of the world's foremost authorities on immunology,…
recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine, and an active and respected commentator on public health, reflects in this book on empire, war and tennis. Doherty identifies the origins of modern tennis within its imperial context, relating seemingly unlikely connections between the sport, its players and national militaries. He traces the fate of tennis-and its players-as a nascent force for internationalism and cultural tolerance within the context of World War II. And he personalises this account through an unsentimental but revealing depiction of his tennis-loving Queenslander uncles, at war and in captivity in the Pacific. As Doherty shows, tennis and war have threaded their way through the lives of many people since the nineteenth century, in a way intriguingly unique to this sport. This is part of Peter's story. And, as we come to realise, it is also part of the story of our world.