This is a rare book, and rare in its own time. It is memoir, history, fiction, a documenting of filial gratitude and ingratitude, and a record of the cauldron of experience of a near-fatal illness, all bundled, coherently – that's the miracle – between covers. And written with a white intensity that assaults the way a Southern Ocean breaker does: first, shock, then – exhilaration...
The paradox of this intensely personal, powerfully intelligent memoir is that it lets the reader through while leaving Clendinnen and the people she anatomises with their skins on and mystery intact...I am reminded of Sylvia Plath's last poems, not because Clendinnen is derivative – she is indelibly herself – but because she, too, can extrude clarity out of chaos. – Morag Fraser, Age
James Boyce's Winter Reads
A History Of Christianity: The First 3000 Years
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and... Buy or find out more →
Into The Woods: The Battle For Tasmania's Forests
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage political games ... Buy or find out more →
The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times: New Perspectives on the Transformative Wisdom of Ignatius of Loyola
$39.95 – Unknown /
A new kind of spiritual classic and a powerful reintroduction to Christianity, this hopeful book by esteemed pastor and teacher Fr. Dean Brackley integrates a realistic analysis of today's social crisis with the deep per... Buy or find out more →
Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians Of Kangaroo Island
$34.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
It is relatively well known that the Palawa community of Tasmania is mostly descended from the Aboriginal Tasmanian women who sealers took to the Bass Strait Islands in the early nineteenth century. But few people know t... Buy or find out more →
Tiger's Eye
$25.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
This is a rare book, and rare in its own time. It is memoir, history, fiction, a documenting of filial gratitude and ingratitude, and a record of the cauldron of experience of a near-fatal illness, all bundled, coherentl... Buy or find out more →
Inga Clenndinnen
Agamemnons Kiss: Selected Essays
$25.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
The newest selection of essays from one of Australia's finest historians and writers.
Agamemnon's Kiss is a thrilling selection of essays by one of Australia's most celebrated writers.
Inga Clendinnen writes about everyt... Buy or find out more →
Tiger's Eye
$25.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
This is a rare book, and rare in its own time. It is memoir, history, fiction, a documenting of filial gratitude and ingratitude, and a record of the cauldron of experience of a near-fatal illness, all bundled, coherentl... Buy or find out more →
Dancing With Strangers
$26.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the... Buy or find out more →
Reading The Holocaust
$26.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Clendinnen explores the Holocaust from both the victims? and the perpetrators? points of view. Buy or find out more →
True Stories: History, Politics, Aboriginality
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
In 1999 Dr Inga Clendinnen delivered six lectures as part of the Boyer Lectures, a series broadcast nationally on ABC radio. True Stories is those lectures in essay form, released by Text for the first time since Inga wa... Buy or find out more →
Aztecs
$39.95 – Paperback book / Canto
Inga Clendinnen creates a vivid and dramatic picture of life in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, once the nerve centre of the Aztec tribute empire. She explores the worlds of Aztec women, of priests and of warriors, in an... Buy or find out more →