The Australian Long Story by Mandy Sayer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
In this collection, acclaimed writer Mandy Sayer brings together nine of the best Australian examples of the long story - tales that combine the intensity of the short story with the complexity of a novel. In these stories, characters grow up, hook up and break up, endure calamitous loss and discover de ...Show more
Patchwork: Penguin African Writers by Ellen Mulenga Banda-Aaaku
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
Destined from birth to inhabit two very different worlds - that of her father, the wealthy Joseph Sakavungo, and that of her mother, his mistress - this emotive tale takes us to the heart of a young girl's attempts to come to terms with her own identity and fashion a future for herself from the patchwor ...Show more
Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan
$24.74 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | Series: Oxford Paperbacks | Reading Level: very good
In tellng the story of his youth, Maurice O'Sullivan uses a style derived from the folk tales he learned from his grandfather, and sharpened by his own lively imagination. Though he wrote simply for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends--without any thought of a wider audience--O'Sul ...Show more
Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The definitive 25th-anniversay edition of Burroughs's legendary second novel. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-gro ...Show more
The New Penguin Book Of American Short Stories, From Washington Irving To Lydia Davis by BODDY KASIA
$9.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a richly diverse cast of characters, including convicts, artists, farm labourers, slaves, soldie ...Show more
A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell by Jonathan Safran Foer
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
Presents pieces of prose and poetry that engage literature with art.
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble - Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | Reading Level: very good
A treasure trove of Schama's writing with subjects ranging from cookery to Barack Obama.
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York Times Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers, and The Ballad of the Sad Ca ...Show more
Burn This Book by Toni Morrison
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | Series: Pen Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word
In "Witness: The Inward Testimony" Nadine Gordimer discusses the role of the writer as observer, and as someone who sees 'what is really taking place'. She looks to Proust, Oe, Flaubert, Graham Green to see how their philosophy squares with her own, ultimately concluding 'Literature has been and remains ...Show more
Tiny Book of Tiny Stories Volume 1 by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
From hitRECord, the immensely popular open collaborative production company, and its founder, Golden Globe-nominated actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, comes The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1. The universe is not made of atoms; it’s made of tiny stories. To create The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume ...Show more
The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories 2 by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (ed.)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | Reading Level: very good
The universe is not made of atoms; it's made of tiny stories. Featuring 62 contributors from the 14,946 contributions to the Tiny Stories collaboration on HITRECORD.ORG