The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness.Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including ...Show more
The Writer's Room by Charlotte Wood
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Category: Essays
Charlotte Wood's online journal The Writer's Room has become essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure reading pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide range of well-known writers range in topic from the subject matter of the writers' work ...Show more
Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit by Hay Ashley
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Category: Essays
Is empathy, like water, in increasingly short supply?Now more than ever we need empathy, and Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit explores and celebrates generosities and kindnesses, those uplifting and memorable experiences that illuminate our lives. Featuring inspiring despatches from the frontl ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Essays
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions su ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
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Category: Essays
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a cl ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
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Category: Essays
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more
Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Women Don't Owe You Pretty tells you to love sex, hate sexism, protect your goddamn energy, life is short, dump them, and that you owe men nothing, least of all pretty. Florence's debut book explores all progressive corners of the feminist conversation; from insecurity projection and refusing to find co ...Show more
Mayday: The inside Story of the fall of Qantas by Matt O'Sullivan
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Category: Essays
Power-plays, public spats, strategic blunders, betrayal and revenge: the fall of Qantas has more intrigue and drama than any in-flight movie. How did a national icon become a national liability? Founded in 1920 by two WWI pilots and a grazier, the 'Flying Kangaroo' is one of the oldest and most respecte ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl Gift Edition by Clementine Ford
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Category: Essays
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
Me and White Supremacy - How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F Saad
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
'White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. And if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. This is not my opinion. This is fact. And if you are person who holds whi ...Show more
What She Said: #1 Award Winner: The Art of Inspiring Action through Speech by Monica Lunin
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Category: Essays
This collection analyses inspirational speeches from persuasive women from many different walks of life throughout history. From Queen Elizabeth I to Julia Gillard, Maya Angelou to Malala Yousafzai, it champions women as great communicators who can teach us how to craft a strong message. This book will ...Show more
How to Lose Friends and Influence White People by Antoinette Lattouf
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Category: Essays
A guide through the balancing act of activist, advocate and ally, remembering that just because others are learning you don't need to be the teacher, from the dynamic and sharp co-founder of Media Diversity Australia, Antoinette Lattouf. Poignant, inspiring, funny and most importantly authentic, How to ...Show more