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The Best Australian Essays - A Ten-Year Collection

Black Inc.

Publisher: Black Inc.

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Summary

The best of the best …

This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Essays and selects the cream of the crop. These are the pieces that have captured key events – from September 11 to Victoria’s fires – changed the way we see the nation, for good or ill – from Anzac Day to Palm Island – investigated intriguing figures – from Oskar Schindler to Charles Darwin – or which simply represent a peak of the writer’s art.

Contributors include: Thomas Keneally, Chloe Hooper, Peter Porter, David Malouf, John Birmingham, Helen Garner, Inga Clendinnen, MJ Hyland, Barry Humphries, David Marr, Clive James, Robyn Davidson, Christos Tsiolkas, Craig Sherborne, Kevin Brophy, Frank Devine, Barry Oakley, Jessica Anderson, Alan Frost, Gary Hughes, Christine Kenneally, JM Coetzee, Simon Leys, Anna Goldsworthy, Brenda Walker, Anne Manne, Shane Maloney, Noel Pearson, Tim Flannery, Robert Manne, Richard Flanagan, Gay Alcorn, Mark Riley, Nicolas Rothwell, Robert Dessaix, Anna Krien, Tim Winton, Kate Jennings, Benjamin Law and David Foster.
Available since: 03/28/2011.

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