Australian & Oceanian

This book by Rodge Glass, the award-winning novelist, short story writer and biographer, is the first ever detailed assessment of Michel Faber's life and work across genre and form. It draws on intimate, wide-ranging interviews with the author over a...

'A gripping tale' MY WEEKLY'Thrilling' WOMAN'A truly gripping read of mystery, love and heroism' FROST MAGAZINE The Lost Girls of Paris is an emotional story of friendship and betrayal during the second world war, inspired by...

** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDYRestless outsider, masher-up of form and...

Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind'Impressive... Yu remakes the art of writing itself'GUARDIAN'A wonderful new novel for a metamodern world'BRANDON TAYLOR, author of The Late...

In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane - perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose - began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a...

Jimi Hendrix, Princess Diana and Syria's Asma Al-Assad rub shoulders with Auden, Eliot and Shelley - and with the Trouser Thief Clive met during ten long weeks locked up in a closed psychiatric ward - in this offbeat and affectionate poetic biography. ...

This is the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications, the largest and most dynamic Australian pulp publisher to emerge after World War II. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged, softcover books,...

For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The remnants they left behind speak of their determination to...

Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art is the first book to undertake a comprehensive survey of the literature produced by nineteenth-century settler emigration.Book InformationISBN 9781474433709Author Fariha ShaikhFormat...

This an authoritative scholarly edition of Mansfield's camping journal, offering new understandings of her colonial life. Katherine Mansfield filled the first half of the 'Urewera Notebook' during a 1907 camping tour of the central North Island, shortly...

Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive...

Aulestia takes a scholarly and in-depth look at the art of the bertsolari and introduces this Basque art to the English-speaking world. This work provides an understanding of an interesting cultural phenomenon - the artist in Basque society who is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816535507Author Craig Santos PerezFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

During the 19th century, throughout the Anglophone world, most fiction was first published in periodicals. In Australia, newspapers were not only the main source of periodical fiction, but the main source of fiction in general. Because of their...

Metafiction and the Postwar Novel is a full-length reassessment of one of the definitive literary forms of the postwar period, sometimes known as 'postmodern metafiction'. In the place of large-scale theorizing, this book centres on the intimacies of...

On 24 February 1817, Barron Field sailed into Sydney Harbour on the convict transport Lord Melville to a ceremonial thirteen-gun salute. He was there as the new Judge of the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature in New South Wales — the highest legal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988262928Author Ho'oulumahiehieFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Awaiaulu Inc.Publisher Awaiaulu Inc.Weight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780522879469Author Emmett StinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Melbourne University PressPublisher Melbourne University PressWeight(grams)...

This volume, the second of four, includes her correspondence from early 1918 to the autumn of 1919. Her love for Middleton Murry, her response to the First World War, and her acceptance of the inevitable advance of tuberculosis, are handled with wit and...

Les Murray is amongst the most gifted poets writing today, his multi-faceted talents have received high praise both in his native Australia and beyond. But he has also proved a controversial figure, whose poetry strays across the boundaries of political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781742586069Author Lyn McCreddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint UWAPPublisher UWA PublishingWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781742584973Author Ken GelderFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint UWAPPublisher UWA PublishingWeight(grams) 600g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978192645Author William Robert DicksteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (1813-68) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life -- documents open up successive phases...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798678459428Author Elisa BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

The Other Hybrid Archipelago presents the postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean islands to an Anglophone audience. The islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros, and the Seychelles form a region that has a particular...

This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa New Zealand through its engagement in the global marketplace.Combining postcolonial and world literature methodologies contributors chart the...

Through a literary lens, Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008: Market Fictions examines the ways in which the reprise of market-based economics has impacted the forms of social exchange and cultural life in a...

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From Owls do Cry to The Carpathians, the novels of Janet Frame have challenged our understanding of what fiction does. In The Frame Function, Jan Cronin traces the operation of a prescriptive authorial presence within the novels to offer an engaging...

Australia and New Zealand, united geographically by their location in the South Pacific and linguistically by their English-speaking inhabitants, share the strong bond of hope for cultural diversity and social equality-one often challenged by history,...

The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalypse and epiphany, of cultural mythos and story, and of people and spirituality.This book explores the...

The major New Zealand novelists of the 1980s have begun to receive international acclaim. This first critical study of Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Maurice Gee, Ian Wedde, and C.K. Stead concentrates on their important works to explore how...

Australia and New Zealand, united geographically by their location in the South Pacific and linguistically by their English-speaking inhabitants, share the strong bond of hope for cultural diversity and social equality-one often challenged by history,...

Bugs is about the unfolding lives of three young people in their last year of school in small-town New Zealand. Life is slow, and it seems not much happens in town or in Jez and Bugs’s lives. But when Stone Cold arrives, the three come to different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988262935Author Ho'oulumahiehieFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Awaiaulu Inc.Publisher Awaiaulu Inc.Weight(grams) 191g

Containing stimulating and insightful essays on eight of the country's best novels, this collection of critical essays examines how New Zealand fiction has redefined traditional means of storytelling, inviting readers into a new malleable world where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824814250Author James R. BrandonFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i Press

After the Celebration takes off where Gelder and Salzman's previous book, ""The New Diversity: Australian Fiction 1970-1988"", ends. In ""After the Celebration"", they look at the major genres of Australian fiction...

This is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (1813-68) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life -- documents open up successive phases...