Mcsweeney's Issue 22 by Eggers Dave (ed)
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This new and brilliant issue of McSweeney's comes in three parts, held together by a magnet.In the first, poets including Michael Ondaatje and Denis Johnson initiate poet-chains, picking a poem of their own and one by another poet, who then does the same, and so on.In the second, F. Scott Fitzgerald pro ...Show more
Dancing in the Streets : A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: New Hardbacks
Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance. Although sixteenth-century Europeans began to view mass festivities as foreig ...Show more
How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
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Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
As editor of McSweeney's ('America's most interesting publication' in the words of Time Out), Dave Eggers has been partly responsible for a rejuvenation of short fiction in the USA. At the same time he has also developed his own unique, funny, endlessly inventive take on the short story form. How We ...Show more
Curtin's Gift : Reinterpreting Australia's Greatest Prime Minister by John Edwards
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Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Brief Lives Ser.
A fresh and thoughtful look at one of Australia's greatest prime ministers, John Curtin.
Bloodbath by Patricia Edgar
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In the course of her extraordinary public career, Edgar has inspired many followers and provoked some bitter enemies. This important, and candid, memoir, which coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of television broadcasting in Australia.
On Ugliness by Umberto Eco (ed.)
$95.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
This book is the follow up to the previous volume, "On Beauty". Apparently beauty and ugliness are concepts that imply each other, and by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty, so all we need do is define the first to understand the nature of the second. But the various manifestations of uglin ...Show more
Honey and Dust by Piers Moore Ede
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Category: New Hardbacks
A celebration of honey and the regenerative powers of natureSeriously injured after a hit and run, Piers Moore Ede went to work on an organic farm in Italy. There he met a beekeeper, Gunter, who showed him, for the first time, the wonders and magic of the beehive. Inspired by this, and by Gunter's dream ...Show more
Turning Back the Clock by Umberto Eco
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Category: New Hardbacks
"Turning Back the Clock" is a brilliant collection of essays by one of the leading intellectuals of our time. With his customary sharpness and wit, Eco explains the tragic steps backwards that have been taken since the end of the last millennium. After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback i ...Show more
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana : An illustrated novel by Umberto Eco
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Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: near fine
This remarkable illustrated novel is set to become Eco's most accessible and bestselling book since The Name of the Rose. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana has two acts. Each act revolves around a stroke. The first stroke - the opening - takes away the protagonist's lived memory. In other words, Yambo ...Show more