Australia's great modern writer, Frank Moorhouse, has collected Australia's finest short fiction from the last twelve months, showcasing the art of the well-crafted story, from the poetic and experimental to the classic. The contributors to this collection display the best fiction writers at the top of their form, demonstrating the enduring ...
In a political system that renders them largely voiceless, Australia's Aboriginal people have used the written word as a powerful tool for over two hundred years. "Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature" presents a rich panorama of Aboriginal culture, history, and life through the writings of some of the great Australian Aboriginal authors. ...
Dark-eyed beauty, Paquita Delprat and dashing explorer Douglas Mawson became engaged on the eve of his 1911 Antarctic expedition. Mawson was to be away for fifteen months, and their life together would begin after this long separation. But the trek was a disaster. Two men perished and Mawson staggered back to the base only to find that the waiting ...
An anthology of the writing of Wilfred Burchett, perhaps the greatest journalist and war correspondent Australia has ever produced. He was also one of the most controversial figures of the Cold War, both in Australia and overseas. Burchett published more than 30 books, and this volume brings together extracts from most of these, spanning the ...
David Foster is the most original, challenging, contradictory, risk-taking and infuriating Australian novelist of his generation. To date he has published twelve novels, three collections of novellas and short stories, two books of poetry, and a collection of essays, with several produced radio plays. Foster writes in an Australian tradition of ...
Katie Mitchell is a well brought up Catholic girl in the dark ages of the nineteen fifties. Her father loves her very much. Her mother values piety and chastity above all. This is a brave and funny novel about falling rapturously in love and being condemned for it; about wakening sensibility and constraint, and about finding oneself growing up in ...
More than two dozen contemporary novelists, essayists, and poets are collected in this remarkable collection of work from Australia, a complex country with a multi layered history. Among these outstanding writers is a growing number of Indigenous authors, whose voices are included here. Their stories - many of them previously untold in literature ...
In this attractive, intelligent and lively book well-known New Zealand writers - poets, novelists, even an economist - write about their favourite local artist. While much art history and criticism is mired in jargon, dullness or obscurity, this book offers fresh, articulate, personal responses that also deepen our perceptions of some major ...
This theoretically-informed monograph provides a book-by-book analysis of the novelist's ouvre and gives a full picture of his Weltanschauung. A valuable reference for scholars in Australian Studies as well as those researching postcolonial, psychoanalytic and literary theories.
This handsome book celebrates the rich variety and depth of the Special Collections of the Auckland City Libraries. These amazing collections are full of rare, valuable and beautiful items that are not widely known. One hundred treasures are featured, each pictured in full colour with accompanying text written by Iain Sharp and grouped in sections ...
Trust everyone, but brand your calves.It always rains and spoils a good drought.Most of the time, crow low and roost high.Never say die till a dead horse kicks you. - There is much wisdom and many a laugh to be found in this delightful collection of Au
Dan Davin, Rhodes scholar, for many years Academic Publisher at the Clarendon Press in Oxford, and one of New Zealand's acknowledged masters of the short story, was born in Invercargill in 1914. The Gorse Blooms Pale gathers together twenty-six stories and a selection of poems reflecting his experiences while growing up in an Irish-New Zealand ...
Engaging and spirited, this essay collection examines Australian national humor--from the high and low to the classic and the cutting-edge--in literature, performances, and daily life. Leading scholars in Australian literature and culture additionally explore how this humor affects Australian national identity and worldview and what overall role ...
Proving that the short story is alive and well in Australia, this eclectic anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected vignettes showcases some of the finest authors from Down Under--from seasoned practitioners to rising and emerging stars of the short story firmament. At once poignant, tender, introspective, and funny, the volume includes ...
The Victoria University, Wellington, writing course directed by Bill Manhire, has become famous for producing brilliant new writers, but what makes this course so successful, and what really happens in the classes. This book offers a glimpse behind the scenes, an insight into the class of 2000.
The fourth and final volume of this major collaborative national project details all separately published works of creative literature by Australian writers whose last names begin with P through Z, from European arrival in Australia to the end of the 20th century. Regardless of genre or perceived literary merit, each entry contains a comprehensive ...
"Incisive, strange, and often philosophically compelling."--Time Out (Critics' Pick) "It takes a rare gift to write in the aphoristic form, which must be witty and modest at once, and must state in a fresh, arresting way observations which the reader will recognize at once as true. It goes without saying that the aphorist must work out of an ...
A collection of stories behind the news, collected over many years as a senior journalist in Darwen. Ken White throws a new light on news stories -- including some which were covered in the national press -- and captures the special feeling of the Top End, enjoyed by all who live in the Northern Territory, and fascinating to all who visit there.
This is a lively anthology of autobiographical stories and short fiction about the lives of ordinary Australians by some of Australias most famous writers, including A.B. Facey, Sally Morgan, Elizabeth Jolley, T.A.G. Hungerford, Kim Scott and Simone Lazaroo. From childhood through adolescence, work and marriage, to old age, these stories provide a ...
This book illustrates the contribution made to New Zealand letters by our oldest and most prestigious literary fellowship. Edited and introduced by Professor Lawrence Jones, the anthology, by turns playful and serious, celebrates the Fellowship's golden jubilee. Beginning with novelist Ian Cross in 1959 and ending with the 2008 Burns Fellow, poet ...
The most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, this exceptional collection has been chosen from the four different volumes released during her lifetime. Featuring the best of her stories, the book includes pieces that were written over four decades, including stories from her debut collection, "The Lagoon and Other ...
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