What would it be like to live in Paris for six months? This collection of writing by authors who have lived in a place that overlooks the Seine, allows us to see Paris through the eyes of some of Australia's best contemporary writers, including Gillian Mears, Brian Castro, Jean Kent, Marion Halligan and Gary Catalano.
The book contains the final Chapter of Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock, removed before publication, despite it giving the reader knowledge of what happened to the schoolgirls lost at the St Valentine's Day picnic in 1900. First illustrated edition.
The best book to discuss the creative work of Aboriginal author, playwright and poet (1917-2000). First published in 1994, including essays by Ooodgeroo.
The Feminist Politics of Form in Australian Fiction. Realism, Feminism a
Examines a century of realist fiction and challenges a contemporary feminist assumption that realist writers speak for patriarchal liberalism. In the work of writers such as Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead and Sally Morgan, Susan Lever finds new perspectives on sex and fictional forms.
Science fiction has hosted some of the greatest minds and most innovative thinkers in human history. From Orson Wells to Octavia Butler, Star Trek to Star Wars, in books, on television, and at the movies, science fiction has shaped our future, pushed the limits of human imagination, and guided us within ourselves to examine the universal truths of ......
Half of Joseph Conrads body of work is set in late 19th-century Southeast Asia and his favourite destinations were Singapore and the remote ports of the Dutch East Indies. Burnet connects the fictional and real worlds in this fascinating introduction to Conrads life in the Malay archipelago.
From early prostheses to present-day transhumanism, this graphic novel addresses one of the most remarkable challenges in the history of medicine: how we repair and even enhance the body.
A young man wakes up in the hospital to discover that one of his arms has been amputated. Then a portrait on the wall of his ......
Jean Giraud (1938-2012) started drawing comics in the late 1950s for a variety of French comics magazines. Under his real name, he found success in 1963 with the western series Blueberry, written by Jean-Michel Charlier and published in Pilote magazine. In the 1970s, he started producing science fiction works under the name of Moebius, which ......
What is sex? Has it always existed? What purpose does it serve? Why are there penises and vaginas? These questions are at the very core of Dirty Biology, an erudite (and hilarious) graphic novel that aims to teach you everything you wanted to know about sex—and then some.
