The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
'There is no jail that can imprison the free word, nor is there a siege tight enough that can prevent the spread of information.' - Mazen Darwish, Syrian human rights activist, in a speech given on April 23, 2016, following his release from jail in 2015. In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus w ...Show more
Tree Beings by Raymond Huber
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
We depend on trees for our survival, yet few of us understand just how fascinating these beings really are. With a foreword by the world-renowned anthropologist Jane Goodall, Tree Beings is an adventure through the secret world of trees. Challenging the perception that trees are just ‘silent statues’, i ...Show more
Wandering with Intent: essays by Kim Mahood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
To essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt -- and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life. In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Aust ...Show more
The Gleaner Song: Selected Poems by Song Lin, Dong Li
$24.00 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
Song Lin is one of China’s most innovative poets. When the Tiananmen protest exploded in Beijing in June 1989, Song led student demonstrations in Shanghai and was imprisoned for almost a year. He left China soon afterwards. This selection of poems, made by the translator Dong Li and the poet himself, sp ...Show more
Second City - New Essays from Western Sydney by Luke Carman (Editor); Catriona Menzies-Pike (Editor)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
Second City is a showcase of the diverse literary talents that make Sydney’s Western Suburbs such a fertile region for writers. Beginning with Prime Minister’s Award-winning author Felicity Castagna’s warning about the dangers of cultural labelling, this collection of essays takes resistance against con ...Show more
BIG BLACK THING CHAPTER TWO by SWEATSHOP VARIOUS
$19.95 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
The Big Black Thing: Chapter. 2 is the second issue in a new series of prose and poetry by emerging and established writers from Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds.
BIG BLACK THING CHAPTER ONE by SWEATSHOP VARIOUS
$19.95 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
The Big Black Thing: Chapter 1 is the first issue in a new series of poetry and prose from emerging and established writers of Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds.
The Theory of Flight by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
$27.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
'On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment of her death, Imogen Zula Nyoni – Genie – was seen to fly away on a giant pair of silver wings ...' As Imogen Zula Nyoni, aka Genie, lies in a coma at Mater Dei Hospital after ha ...Show more
Searching for Charlotte: The Fascinating Story of Australia's First Children's Author (Charlotte Waring Atkinson) by Kate Forsyth; Belinda Murrell
$34.95 AUD
Category: Teaching Tools & Resources
In Searching for Charlotte, Forsyth and Murrell tell Charlotte's story along with that of their own journey to discover her. In an intriguing account, the sisters join the reader in reacting to Charlotte's actions: wondering what could have motivated certain choices; admiring the strength of spirit that ...Show more
The Little Green Grammar Book (PB) by Mark Tredinnick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, where is your verb, what is its tense, where is your modifier, and why does it matter? Where do you need a comma, and where do you not? Why are dashes and semicolons so misunderstood? When is it which and when is it that? In The Little Green G ...Show more
The Little Red Writing Book by Mark Tredinnick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
"The Little Red Writing Book" is a book on technique, style, craft and manners for everyone who writes and wants to do it better. It is a manual of good diction, composition, sentence craft, paragraph design, structure and planning. Enriched by examples of fine prose from great writers including Tim Win ...Show more
Love Marriage in Kabul - A Memoir by Sanaz Fotouhi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good