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Diving into Glass
Caro Llewellyn was living her dream life in her adopted home of New York, directing an international literary festival. Then one day, running in Central Park, she lost all sensation in her legs. Two days later she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Caro was no stranger to tragedy. Her father Richard contracted polio at the age of twenty and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Dignified, undaunted and ingenious, he was determined to make every day count, not least seducing his nurse while still confined to an iron lung, then marrying her. But when Caro was herself blindsided by illness, cut loose from everything she depended on, she couldn’t summon any of the grace and courage s...
My One True Love
Twenty-one Australian writers celebrate their life's one true love Caro Llewellyn put life's hardest question to twenty-one writers: to write of their one true love, to identify and celebrate the single most-loved thing in their lives. Spanning fiction and non-fiction, My One True Love explores the essential loves of twenty-one well-known Australians. Each story is passionate, surprising - and honest. Defining the one true love in our life is a task not many of us would want to set ourselves. In fact, for some writers Caro approached, going public about their one true love was not an inviting prospect. Isolating that one thing that makes life meaningful and joyous is difficult because our li...
Jobs for the Girls
A collection of interviews with 24 women from around Australia who run their own business. Each woman talks in detail about their experiences, which covers such topics as balancing work and family life, financial support, partnerships and everyday crises in a broad range of businesses. Includes a small business resource guide.
Know the Past, Find the Future
From Laurie Anderson to Vampire Weekend, Roy Blount, Jr., to Renée Fleming, Stephen Colbert to Bill T. Jones—more than 100 luminaries reflect on the treasures of America’s favorite public library. Marking the centennial of The New York Public Library’s Beaux-Arts landmark at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, now called the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Know the Past, Find the Future harnesses the thoughts of an eclectic assortment of notable people as they ponder an even more eclectic assortment of objects. From among the Library’s vast collections, these writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, musicians, athletes, architects, choreographers, and journalists—as well as some of t...
Abracadabra
'The first time around these pieces were not widely heard or read. A roomful of festival-goers in Sydney or Penang or Ballarat could well have heard me hold forth on the subject of Enid Blyton, say, or kissing, it’s true, and a few of my newspaper articles – my feuilletons, as I’m calling them – may have caught the eye of some readers of the Byron Shire Echo some years ago. It’s not that these audiences were unappreciative, but they were limited. Nowadays a podcast can attract an audience of tens of thousands around the globe, while I performed for the most part in more intimate spaces – these were entertainments, so to speak, for un-known friends.' No festival organiser, newspap...
Fresh!
Fresh! captures the romance of our wonderful markets in a celebration of thefreshness of Australian produce and the generosity of the people who bring it to us. Fresh! is an extended ode to the gloriousness of Australian food markets and the people who run them. Caro Llewellyn put on her gumboots and gave up precious sleep time to profile some of the stall holders at Australia's best known and loved markets. They gave her their stories and their favourite recipes to create this fascinating food storybook, the first of its kind in Australia. The recipes included range from simple soups and salads, to wonderful seafood, classic meat and pasta dishes, and irresistible desserts. Some have been handed down through the years, others are modern Australian adaptations of classic peasant fare. Each recipe is accompanied by the stallholder's own special story so that together they form a fascinating record of our markets and the people who work in them. Fresh! truly captures the magic of markets. Illustrated throughout with stunning black-and-white photos, Fresh! is guaranteed to have you rolling out of bed at the crack of dawn to discover and sample the joys of your local market.
Philip Roth
This new biography of the controversial, influential, and prize-winning American novelist Philip Roth, a writer with an international reputation for inventive, original novels from Portnoy's Complaint to American Pastoral and The Plot Against America, is based on new access to archival documents and new interviews with Roth's friends and associates.
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The Cure for Sleep
'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun Just days into motherhood, a woman begins dying. Fast and without warning. On return from near-death, Tanya Shadrick vows to stop sleepwalking through life. To take more risks, like the characters in the fairy tales she loved as a small girl, before loss and fear had her retreat into routine and daydreams. Around the care of young children, she starts to play with the shape and scale of her days: to stray from the path, get lost in the woods, make bargains with strangers. As she moves beyond her respectable roles as worker, wife and mother in a small town, Tanya learns what it takes - and costs - to break the spell of longing for love, approval, safety, rescue.
The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses
Through a series of incisive and insightful essays by accomplished scholars, this Companion offers readers a new window to the world of Ulysses.
