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Literary Cats by JUDITH ROBINSON, SCOTT PACK
$35.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
‘Everything you ever wanted to know about cats in books. A wonderful idea, beautifully executed.’ - Viv GroskopCats have provided the inspiration for an incredible range of fiction, memoir and poetry, from ancient myths and fables to much-loved children’s books, and from classic tales to contemporary no ...Show more
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by Charles Robinson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Everyman's Library Children's Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
"Doctor Foster went to Glo'ster, In a shower of rain; He stepped in a puddle right up to his middle, And never went there again." A bumper crop of nursery rhymes for the delight of the very young. In his Introduction, Jerrold explains how his selection was based on earlier collections made by John Newbe ...Show more
The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her trilogy of novels - Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, Orange-Prize winning Home and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Lila - and in her moving essay collection When I Was a Child I Read Books. Now, in The Givenness of Things, she brings a ...Show more
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science Fiction
Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favourite reads of 2020Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organisation was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its st ...Show more
The Ministry for the Future - indent H/B by Robinson, Kim Stanley
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science Fiction
The Ministry for the Future is a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades, from legendary SF author Kim Stanley Robinson. It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever wr ...Show more
What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winnerMarilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circ ...Show more
When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
Of Marilynne Robinson, Michael Arditti said that there is 'no contemporary novelist whose work I would rather read' However she is not only a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this luminous new collection she returns to the themes which have preo ...Show more