Women, Oxford and Novels of Crime by Alison Hoddinott
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Category: writing poetry literature
Alison Hoddinott writes about the history of crime fiction set in Oxford from the early decades of the 20th century to the present. Her emphasis is on novels written by women and the ways in which their fiction deals with both the mystery and its solution and with the situation of women within the unive ...Show more
Gary's House by Debra Oswald
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Plays Ser.
Gary has failed in everything he has attempted. But when he inherits a block of land, he gets an urge to build a nest with Sue-Ann, his angry and pregnant girlfriend... This is a story about Aussie battlers -- battling with each other, the elements and the world in their quest to turn a dream into reali ...Show more
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson
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Category: writing poetry literature
Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Don Watson's Death Sentenceis scathing, funny and brilliant.' ... in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politic ...Show more
The Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: PLAYS
In 1945 Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese POW camp. Now after a half-century separation, the filming of a TV documentary forces them to relive the past. Woven into their fifty years of separation are a shoe-horn and the threads of loyalty and love which form their 'uncommon bond' (2 acts, 2 w ...Show more
Complete Poems Of Banjo Paterson by A B Paterson
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Category: writing poetry literature
Australia's most-loved bush poet, Banjo Paterson, is the writer who in many ways defined what it was to be Australian. When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'the Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. today Banjo Paterson is still one of A ...Show more
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
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Category: writing poetry literature
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blo ...Show more
Poems of Henry Lawson: With Illustrations by Pro Hart by Lawson Henry
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Category: writing poetry literature
In any part of Australia, almost in any company, the mere mention of Henry Lawsons name will bring an immediate response. Whether it gives rise to an anecdote or a recitation of a few lines of his verse or leads to a discussion of his place in Australian literature it will not pass unnoticed. The poems ...Show more
Elements of Style (4th revised edition) by E.B. White; William Strunk
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Category: writing poetry literature
This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. This 'little' book can help students communicate more effectively, showing them how to enliven their sentences, put statements in the positive form and write in a clear and simple style.
Book of Longing: Popular Penguins by Leonard Cohen
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
Hamlet: Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: The\Pelican Shakespeare Ser.
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world o ...Show more
Fearless by Mirra Todd
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Category: writing poetry literature
Fearless investigates the many portals of loneliness. Ten characters inhabit the world of Fearless. Each character flinches at a point in their lives. In that moment, each life is unexpectedly hurled off its normal pat into an emotional abyss. Fearless begins at this juncture where redemption, recover ...Show more