Readings Recommends: Anthologies & Journals
Songs Of The Dying Earth
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge. The sun is feeble and red. A million cities have fallen to dust. Here live a few thousand souls, dying, as the Earth dies beneath them. Just a few short decades remain to the long h... Buy or find out more →
The Granta Book Of The African Short Story
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Granta
The Granta Book of the African Short Story introduces a group of African writers described by its editor, Helon Habila, as 'the post-nationalist generation'.
Introducing a diverse and dazzling collection from all over th... Buy or find out more →
The Penguin Book Of Australian Bush Writing
$32.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
A selection of our finest writing about the mystery and majesty of the Australian bush.
Since settlers and explorers first started recording their experiences of the Australian bush, is has loomed as large in our imagina... Buy or find out more →
Meanjin Volume 70 Number 4
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
The literary magazine, Meanjin reflects the breadth of contemporary thinking and writing through essays, interviews, memoir, fiction, poetry and visual art. Buy or find out more →
Kill Your Darlings Issue 7
$18.00 – Paperback book / Kill Your Darlings Pty Ltd
- Ben Eltham on the demise of Australian political journalism
- Rebecca Howden on Andrej Pejic
- KYD in conversation with Val McDermid
- Ben Pobjie on hating Julia Gillard
- Rochelle Siemienowicz and Krissy Kneen on pornography a...
The Lifted Brow No 12
$9.00 – Magazine /
Our 2011 Food Issue. From Hungry Jacks to Noma. Buy or find out more →
early harvest Magazine
$16.95 – Magazine /
Psst! You! Yes, you.
Want to know a secret?
Well, actually, want to know a whole bunch of secrets?
Take a look at this magazine — it’s full of some of the best-kept
secrets in Australia.
Presenting early harvest, an ... Buy or find out more →
The Penguin Book Of Australian War Writing
$39.95 – Hard back / Penguin
From the cliffs of Gallipoli, through the jungles of Vietnam, to the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq, Australia's short history is a story of war.
The battlefield has shaped the way we define ourselves - the Australian v... Buy or find out more →
Griffith Review 34: The Annual Fiction Edition
$27.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Griffith REVIEW's highly anticipated third annual new fiction collection explores islands, both geographical and personal.
This assortment of new fiction from the best emerging and established writers from Australia and ... Buy or find out more →
Overland 204: Progressive Culture Since 1954
$14.95 – Paperback book / Overland Magazine
Overland, the most radical of Australias long-standing literary and cultural magazines, celebrated its 50th year in 2004. Publishing features, fiction, poetry, reviews, comment, artwork and opinion pieces, Overland is co... Buy or find out more →
Granta 117 Horror
$27.99 – Paperback book / Granta
Horror is everywhere - in cinema, in fiction, in real life. In this issue Paul Auster writes about the death of his mother, Will Self on his own rare blood-disease, and Mark Doty on desire, addiction and literature. We h... Buy or find out more →
Granta 116: Ten Years Later
$27.95 – Paperback book / Granta
A street vendor in Tunisia, an American marine going home and a signals operator on a North Korean fishing trawler. From the battlefields of Afganistan to the streets of Mogadishu and Toronto, these are just a few of the... Buy or find out more →
Meanjin Vol 70 No 3
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
The September Meanjin is elegantly redesigned and awash with the creative conversations from writers around the country. Tom Keneally argues that the garden of our national identity is a capacious and adaptable one that ... Buy or find out more →
The Lifted Brow No. 11
$9.00 – Magazine /
The August Brow is here! with Caro Cooper, Anna Krien, Tom Cho, Tom Ballard, Rebecca Giggs, Eric Dando, Sean Kilpatrick, Eddie Campbell, Emmett Stinson, Ruby Murray, Estelle Tang, Liam Pieper, Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, Nata... Buy or find out more →
Griffith Review 33: Such Is Life
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Carrie Tiffany, Frank Moorhouse, Debra Adelaide, Raimond Gaita, Lloyd Jones, Maria Tumarkin, Marion Halligan, Peter Bishop, Sheila Fitzpatrick, John Tranter and more
Whatever you call it—memoir, personal essay, biography... Buy or find out more →
Blue Collar, White Collar No Collar: Stories Of Work
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial
Edited by Richard Ford and featuring stories by Russell Banks, Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, Jhumpa Lahiri, John Cheever, and many others, Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar is a profound and groundbreaking anthology expl... Buy or find out more →
Kill Your Darlings Issue 6
$18.00 – Paperback book / Kill Your Darlings Pty Ltd
COMMENTARY
Sophie Cunningham A Prize of One’s Own: Flares,
Cock-forests and Dreams of a Common Language
Gillian Terzis For Everything Else There’s
Mastercard: Anonymous and 21st-Century Hacktivism
Dmetri Kakmi My Fac... Buy or find out more →
Don't Peak At High School: From Bullied To A-List
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
For the one in four Australian kids affected by bullying, the so-called ‘best days of your life’ can feel more like Guantanamo Bay for Teens. In Don’t Peak At High School, Australia’s most talented, successful and popula... Buy or find out more →
Granta 115: The F Word
$27.99 – Paperback book / Granta
From Ghana to Great Britain, New Delhi to New York, the balance of power remains tipped towards men. Granta 115: The F Word explores the ways in which feminism continues to inform, address and complicate that balance.
IN... Buy or find out more →
Antarctica: That Sweep Of Savage Splendour
$39.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Throughout history, Antarctica has captivated and overwhelmed with its stunning landscapes and wildlife, and extremes of climate and isolation.
The massive seventh continent has witnessed feats of human endurance in the ... Buy or find out more →
The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction
$39.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Marauding bushrangers, lost explorers, mad shepherds, new chums and mounted troopers: these are some of the characters who populate the often perilous world of colonial Australian adventure fiction. Squatters defend thei... Buy or find out more →
The Lifted Brow No.10
$9.00 – Magazine /
Under a cover that's essentially an involved dance between tigers, eyeballs, and the colour pink, this issue is heavy on the FICTION - specifically, a portfolio guest-wrangled by Sam Cooney (who wrote the Wal Mart piece ... Buy or find out more →
Meanjin Vol 70 Number 2
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
IN THE JUNE EDITION of Meanjin, the irrepressible Ben Pobjie takes on the topic of controversial comedy, and explains why he doesn’t particularly care if you’re offended. Maria Tumarkin makes a potent argument for the ro... Buy or find out more →
New Irish Short Stories
$24.99 – Paperback book / Faber
The latest in the acclaimed Best New Irish Short Stories collections.
Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) The News from Dublin is a stunning collection of new Irish short stories from a ... Buy or find out more →
Overland 202
$14.95 – Paperback book / Overland Magazine
The theory of WikiLeaks; the art of Shaun Tan; volunteerism and neoliberalism in literary culture; and much, much more.
Contents
Regulars
Jeff Sparrow − Editorial
Correspondence
Alison Croggon
Essays
Guy Rundle − ‘Open... Buy or find out more →
Voracious: The Best New Australian Food Writing
$29.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
This is the first volume of an annual series that celebrates the best in newly commissioned food writing. The first of its kind in Australia, this series aims to be bold and unique - and to start the conversation about f... Buy or find out more →
The Kid On The Karaoke Stage
$27.95 – Paperback book / Freemantle Press
Acclaimed author Robert Drewe says; ‘These stories do more than just strike a chord: they resonate with the WOW! factor’. Brenda Walker says ‘This whole collection is brimming with original and vibrant writing’ while Boo... Buy or find out more →
Griffith Review 32: Wicked Problems, Exquisite Dilemmas
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Anyone who has attempted a crossword understands wicked problems. One letter wrong and the whole solution collapses, and what was elegant becomes a mess.
So too in life: as complexity increases, so does the number of var... Buy or find out more →
The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
$22.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them G... Buy or find out more →
The Lifted Brow No.9
$9.00 – Magazine /
Cover
Cody Hoyt
Comment
Luke Ryan
On Fiction
Mark Chu
America
Sam Cooney
1969
Chris Currie
The Myth of the Human w/r/t David Foster Wallace’s
Mister Squishy
Blake Butler
Bonds
Alice Pung
Maths
Leesa Wockner
Travel
Patr... Buy or find out more →
Kill Your Darlings Issue 5
$18.00 – Paperback book /
The Kill Your Darlings April issue opens with Matthia Dempsey's 'Meaning-of-Life Type Stuff: The Survival of Australian Bookshops', in which she reflects on book-buying habits and how they shape the future of bookshops. ... Buy or find out more →
The Wilful Eye: Tales From The Tower Book One
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Six of the world's most exciting and best-loved writers have chosen fairytales as inspiration for this spellbinding and subversive short-story collection.
Six writers - Margo Lanagan, Rosie Borella, Isobelle Carmody, Ric... Buy or find out more →
The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection
$34.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
The best of the best …
This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country’s finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matte... Buy or find out more →
The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection
$34.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
The best of the best …
This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Essays and selects the cream of the crop. These are the pieces that have captured key events – from September 11 to Victoria’s fires – change... Buy or find out more →
Etchings 9: Love And Something
$24.95 – Paperback book / Ilura Press
ETCHINGS is a quality publication with an international focus, dedicated to showcasing new work by emerging and established writers and artists.
Founded in 2006, ETCHINGS has already established itself as one of the prom... Buy or find out more →
Heat 24: That's It For Now
$26.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
That’s it, for now… is likely to be the final issue of HEAT in print form. It opens with Freud and Mahler strolling through the pleasant Dutch town of Leyden in Andrew Riemer’s ‘Four Glimpses of the Zeitgeist’, and close... Buy or find out more →
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The fairy tale lives again in these forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Lydia Millet, and more than thirty other extraordinary... Buy or find out more →
Visible Ink 22, An Anthology of New Writing
$16.95 – Paperback book / Visible Ink
Forget about American novels recommended by Oprah. Delve into some eye-opening new Aussie writing and art. The Visible Ink anthology is a collaborative project, run out of RMIT for 22 years. Each year a fresh team of edi... Buy or find out more →
Best European Fiction 2011
$22.95 – Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press
Best European Fiction 2011 is the second installment of an annual anthology of stories from across Europe. Edited by acclaimed Bosnian novelist and MacArthur "Genius-Award" winner Aleksandar Hemon, with a preface by Iris... Buy or find out more →
Etchings Indigenous: Treaty
$20.00 – Paperback book / Ilura Press
"Etchings Indigenous: Treaty takes the reader into some serious territories, but remains focused on placing Indigenous culture in the public sphere, forging connections and engagement between all Australians. Treaty invi... Buy or find out more →
New Australian Stories 2
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
This eclectic anthology of new stories showcases some of our finest short-story writers, and proves that the short story is alive and well in Australia. From seasoned practitioners of the form through to rising and emerg... Buy or find out more →
Griffith Review 30: The Annual Fiction Edition
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Griffith REVIEW’s second annual fiction collection will focus on the Pacific region: from the Americas to Asia, the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia. What binds us? What pulls us apart?
As economic, political... Buy or find out more →
The Australian Book Of Atheism
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Does the Anzac ethos have roots in atheism? Does prayer have a place in Parliament? Should ‘creation science’ be taught in Australian schools? Is atheism maligned in political debate? Will Australia’s future be godless?... Buy or find out more →
Meanjin Vol 69 Number 4
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
This December, Meanjin turns seventy. As Australia’s second oldest literary journal, it has helped our nation develop a cultural identity, critiqued that identity and, more recently, saw globalisation threaten Australia’... Buy or find out more →
The World According To Vice
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Canongate
VICE Magazine started out as a reaction against the humourless self-righteousness at the end of the nineties; against people who talked loudest and didn’t know WTF they were talking about. Then it started publishing maga... Buy or find out more →
Granta 113: The Best Of Young Spanish Novelists
$27.99 – Paperback book / Granta
From Borges to Bolaño, the Spanish language has given us some of the most beloved writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. But as the reach of Spanish-language culture extends far beyond Spain and Latin America, and as th... Buy or find out more →
Griffith Review 31: Ways Of Seeing
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
The big dilemmas of the day resist resolution. For decades we have relied on economics, science and the law for answers to pressing problems. But economics is not as rational as we hoped, science not as certain—even the ... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 41: The Good Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
$0.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?
With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways ... Buy or find out more →
Kill Your Darlings: Issue Four
$18.00 – Paperback book /
The Kill Your Darlings January 2011 issue opens with Emily Maguire's 'The Invisible Women: Carers in Australian Families', in which she records three women's experiences caring for ill and disabled family members. Other ... Buy or find out more →
My Favourite Teacher
$32.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
In My Favourite Teacher high-profile Australians including children’s author Mem Fox, comedian Anh Do, retired Chief Justice Michael Kirby, broadcaster Alan Jones and The Chaser’s Julian Morrow, along with contributors f... Buy or find out more →
Meanjin Vol 70 Number 1
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
In the March edition of Meanjin, Lorin Clarke investigates whether the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is as funny as it could be, Kate Holden considers the relationship between sex work and feminism, Laurie Stee... Buy or find out more →
McSweeney's 36
$35.95 – Hardcover book / Mcsweeneys
Inside this 275-cubic-inch full-color head-crate, there are all the things you'd hope for: a 100-page annotated fragment of Michael Chabon's lost novel, incredible new stories from John Brandon and Colm Toibin, Jack Pend... Buy or find out more →
Award Winning Australian Writing 2010
$29.99 – Paperback book / Melbourne Books
Award Winning Australian Writing 2010 various. Adolfo aranjuez, ed Publisher: Melbourne Books Released: 25 February 2011 ISBN: 9781877096099
The preview above works the same way as the book you receive when you buy from ... Buy or find out more →