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A book about how language shapes us, from the Nobel and Booker-prizewinning author and his Spanish translator,
This is a book about languages, what languages ...
A vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels
Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today's ...
A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists
Homer's Iliad is the famous epic ...
A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer ...
A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's most
brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenary
Novelist, essayist, and public ...
Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties.
We tell ourselves ...
An insightful exploration of one of Australia's most acclaimed writers, the award-winning Alexis Wright
'Do you have a heart? her books ask. Is it ...
Orwell's memoir of living in poverty in Paris during the 1920s.
'You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know ...
A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account-and how they became a cultural sensation
From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of ...
A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking
Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and ...
From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writer
In ...
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction by Fiona Foley, Finding Eliza is a vital Indigenous perspective on colonial storytelling ...
In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and ...
Explore the fictional topography of the most inspiring world cities - including London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo - in this new book from the ...
