The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike DavisThe Conversation - Australia + New Zealand📚 Review: Mike Davis’s City of Quartz (1990) @VersoBooks Mike Davis’s radical urban history of LA was a trailblazing book that remains startlingly relevant to those of us who live in other supersizing cities today, writes @UNSW's Ian Tyrrell. https://t.co/KdSMoAj386
Paperback, 2018
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Woman in White
Wilkie CollinsThe Conversation - Australia + New ZealandYou might have heard of The Woman in White but did you know Wilkie Collins wrote a swathe of other novels featuring strong, intriguing women? Stephen Knight from @unimelb introduces an under-rated writer: https://t.co/W5k0Y2OeCU
Paperback, 2003
$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Thirst for Salt
Madelaine LucasThe Conversation - Australia + New Zealand📚 Thirst for Salt (@madelaine_lucas), The Comforting Weight of Water (@mc_roanna), My Father the Whale (@GinaPerry) Three debut novels explore parental estrangement, and a dystopian near-future that never stops raining, writes @turngold (@UniofAdelaide). https://t.co/kixRa8BJR0
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Brigitta OlubasThe Conversation - Australia + New Zealand📚 Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life – Brigitta Olubas (Hachette). Shirley Hazzard's life defends the right to be unfashionable and the value of learning. As Gail Jones (@westernsydneyu) writes, the biography is a work equal to the stature of its subject https://t.co/lpOQ8XsfeK
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The Overstory
Richard PowersThe Conversation - Australia + New ZealandEvent alert: @ConversationEDU is co-hosting a free book club at @MPavilion, this Thursday 6th Feb 7pm. Our Arts + Culture Editor @suzyfgreene and @unimelb's @kathjhw will discuss 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner 'The Overstory' by Richard Powers. Details here: https://t.co/D0tAx8Ajrn
Paperback, 2019
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob DylanThe Conversation - Australia + New Zealand📚 The Philosophy of Modern Song – Bob Dylan, Folk Music – Greil Marcus Dream sequences with the feel of AI-generated prose, grumpy-old-man-isms, and a cracking playlist – Dylan constantly rewrites the national songbook, writes @MccooeyDavid (@Deakin). https://t.co/4y6X2W965E
Hardcover, 2022
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Faith, Hope and Carnage
Nick CaveThe Conversation - Australia + New Zealand📚 Faith, Hope and Carnage – @nickcave + Seán O’Hagan (@text_publishing) Nick Cave's religious beliefs take new turns, writes Lyn McCredden (@Deakin). In discussions with journalist Sean O'Hagan, he's an older, reflective theologically-probing musician. https://t.co/Fq6bu6rwmb
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher's Guide to Doing Right by Your Kids and Everyone Else
Elizabeth CrippsThe Conversation - Australia + New Zealand📚 Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher’s Guide to Doing Right by Your Kids – and Everyone Else – @ebcripps (@mitpress) Cripps argues not tackling climate change is like ‘reading them a bedtime story while the house burns down’. @StanburyCraig @MonashUni https://t.co/VISXaTTYhj
Hardcover, 2023
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Voices of us: The independents' movement transforming Australian democracy
Tim DunlopThe Conversation - Australia + New Zealand📚 @markgkenny reviews Voices of Us: The Independents’ Movement Transforming Australian Democracy – Tim Dunlop (@newsouthpub) This new book examines the factors that led to the dramatic political realignment of the 2022 election. #Auspol https://t.co/d0Puehq0tr
Paperback, 2022
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Birnam Wood
Eleanor CattonThe Conversation - Australia + New Zealand📚 Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton (Granta). A novel of depth + complexity, Birnam Wood's depiction of a billionaire is refreshingly unsubtle. It reveals clear lines of cause and effect, and consequence and culpability, writes @JulianNovitz (@Swinburne). https://t.co/dAfjxxHEjT
Paperback, 2024
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book