Australian & Oceanian

'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be' Sunday Times'There's so much . . . in Flanagan's beautiful, unclassifiable...

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...

** 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...

'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...

'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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. In a provocative...

In the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature. At the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific, bold experiments in...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354422911Author Paul SharradFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd

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...

Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout...

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. In a provocative...

Don't miss this sweeping historical epic, perfect for fans of Gill Paul and Dinah Jeffries. Outback Australia, 1981 After a terrible childhood, Jane comes to Thornfield as nanny to the adorable Adele,...

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 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...

This first systematic study of the controversial Austrian feminist writer, Elfriede Jelinek, offers an extensive survey and analysis of Jelinek's major texts and a discussion of the literary techniques which characterise her writing. Background...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702268533Author Larissa BehrendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams)...

This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics, and politics of Australian explorers' texts that looks at the journals...

This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics, and politics of Australian explorers' texts that looks at the journals...

Eliza Fraser was an English woman shipwrecked on the Australian coast in 1836, where she lived with an Aboriginal community until her rescue. The story of a 'civilised' white female being taken captive by 'savage' black men was both fascinating and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975122952Author Adam ShoemakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947506414Author Paola Della ValleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia Media

This study examines the whole of Frame’s output starting with the fiction (novels, short-stories and poems) before focusing on the two autobiographical novels, Owls do Cry and Faces in the Water, to end with the autobiographical trilogy, a sort of...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 PressWeight(grams) 707g

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 9783825359256Author Russell West-PavlovFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 617g