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Apology for the Woman Writing by Jenny Diski
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in order to show her devotion. He made her his adopted daughte ...Show more
Apology for the Woman Writing by Jenny Diski
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in order to show her devotion.He made her his adopted daughter ...Show more
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation' Daily Telegraph In August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. Being a writer, she decided to write about her experience - and to tell a story she had not yet t ...Show more
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality. Embarrassment, at first, to the exclusion of all other feelings. But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness ...I got a joke in. 'So - we'd better get cooking the meth,' I said to the Poet. In August 2014, Jenny Diski was dia ...Show more
On Trying to Keep Still by Jenny Diski
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Jenny Diski's attempt to keep still and mentally idle resulted in a year in which she travelled to New Zealand, spent two months almost alone in a cottage in the country and visited the Sami people of Lapland. Montaigne was alarmed to discover that by staying still his mind 'bolted off like a runaway ho ...Show more
Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Skating to Antarctica is both an intimate memoir and a captivating travelogue of a journey to the bottom of the world.'This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journey to Antarctica last year, intercut with another journey into her own heart and soul
Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions by Jenny Diski
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
In spite of the fact that her idea of travel is to stay home with the phone off the hook, Jenny Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train. Somewhat reluctantly she meets all kinds of characters, all bursting with stories to tell and finds herself brooding about the marvellously fam ...Show more
The Sixties by Jenny Diski
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
This is Jenny Diski at her essayistic best in a highly personal and entertaining exploration of the twentieth century's most colourful decade. Many books have been written on the Sixties: tributes to music and fashion, sex, drugs and revolution. In "The Sixties", Jenny Diski breaks the mould, wryly dism ...Show more
The Sixties by Jenny Diski
$23.99 AUD
Category: History
Many books have been written on the Sixties: tributes to music and fashion, sex, drugs and revolution. In "The Sixties", Jenny Diski breaks the mould, wryly dismantling the big ideas that dominated the era - liberation, permissiveness and self-invention - to consider what she and her generation were rea ...Show more
What I Don't Know About Animals by DISKI JENNY
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Category: Natural History and Environment
What does Jenny Diski know about animals? She's really not sure. She remembers the animal books she read in her childhood; the cartoons she watched; the meals she ate; the strays she found; the animals who have lived and still live with her. She examines human beings, too, and the way in which we have l ...Show more
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? - Essays by Jenny Diski
$36.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine), selected by London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers. "She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be." --New ...Show more
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? - Essays by Jenny Diski
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE. The best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, an injection of grade-A intellectual adrenaline (Vulture), selected by the legendary editor Mary-Kay Wilmers. Diski expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be - New Yorker. Jenny Diski ...Show more
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