Life Honestly: Strong Opinions from Smart Women by The Pool
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Category: Essays & Letters
Life Honestly is a complete guide to modern life from some of today's most talented and insightful writers including Bryony Gordon, Dolly Alderton, Natasha Devon, Lauren Laverne and Yomi Adegoke. Within these pages you’ll find an un-airbrushed selection of advice, comment and opinion. These are intimat ...Show more
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: near fine
A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world's iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart. Mothe ...Show more
The Things We Live With: Essays on uncertainty by Gemma Nisbet
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Category: Essays & Letters
A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated ...Show more
More than Miners: Cornish essays from South Australia
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Category: Essays & Letters
In South Australia, the Cornish connection with the state's copper mining communities is well-known and deservedly celebrated. So too is the influence of the South Australian Cornish in other parts of the continent, especially neighbouring Broken Hill and Victoria. But mining was only ever part of their ...Show more
The Most Dammed Country in the World by Dai Qing
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected here detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's economic rise.
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly by Kate Lebo
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Category: Essays & Letters
'A beautiful, fascinating read full of surprises – a real pleasure.' Claudia Roden '[A] glorious mash-up of memoir, love note, and cookbook . . . Every sentence is as sensuous as the first bite into a cold, juicy plum.' Vulture Inspired by twenty-six fruits, essayist, poet and pie lady Kate Lebo expert ...Show more