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#MeToo : Stories from the Australian Movement
#Me Too: Stories from the Australian Movement
Melbourne
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Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2019
16343506
2019
anthology
poetry
essay
autobiography
'In October 2018, the hashtag MeToo went viral.
'Since then we've watched controversy erupt around Geoffrey Rush, Germaine Greer and Junot Díaz. We've talked about tracking the movement back via Helen Garner, Rosie Batty and Hannah Gadsby. We've discussed #NotAllMen, toxic masculinity and trolls. We've seen the #MeToo movement evolve and start to accuse itself - has it gone too far? Is it enough? What does it mean in this country?
'And still, women are not safe from daily, casual sexual harassment and violence.
'In this collection thirty-five contributors share their own #MeToo stories, analysis and commentary to survey the movement in an Australian context.
'This collection resists victimhood. It resists silence. It insists on change.' (Publication summary)
- 2020 winner APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Non Fiction Book designed by Debra Billson
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A Universe of Sufficient Size
Sydney
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Picador
,
2019
15418270
2019
single work
novel
'I have wished so many times that I had acted differently.
I wish that I had been more worthy of you...
Eventually the war will end, and then we will find each other.'Until then, remember me.
'Budapest, 1938. In a city park, beneath a bleakly looming statue, five Jewish mathematicians gather to share ideas, trade proofs and whisper sedition. Expelled from the university and persecuted by the state's laws, they live in an uneasy but not unhappy bubble of work, friendship and slim plans of escape.
'Sydney, 2007. Illy has just buried her father, a violent, unpredictable man whose bitterness she never understood. And now, the day after his funeral, Illy's mother has gifted her a curious notebook. Its faded pages are a mix of personal stories and mathematical discovery, all recounted by a young woman seemingly blind to Europe's coming storm. A woman very different to the mother and grandmother everybody knows.
'Inspired by a true story, Miriam Sved's beautifully crafted novel charts a course through both the light and dark of human relationships: a vivid recreation of Hungary before German occupation, a decades-old mystery locked in the histories of five students, and a story about the selfless power of love, even years and worlds apart.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2020 shortlisted Colin Roderick Award
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Game Day
Sydney
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Pan Macmillan Australia
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2014
7734413
2014
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
'The ruckmen face off over the centre circle and for a moment everything is frozen possibility: players, umpire, the ball suspended overhead, the softly clouded sky. Everything except the fans, a circus beyond the stillness. Then the ball swings down and cracks it all open. The new draft pick, the tired has-been, the up-and-comer, the might-have-been. The talent scout, the coach on the edge, the beleaguered umpire, the concerned medic. The number-one fan, the lifetime members, the desperate gamblers. The footballers' mums, the WAGs, the groupies. The tags, the rivals, the sledging. The pressure. Mick Reece and Jake Dooley, best mates since childhood, begin their first professional season playing AFL with little notion of what they're getting into: the complexity of the beast that the game must feed. In Game Day, Miriam Sved brings this beast into the light over the course of one season of Aussie Rules. What unfolds is a deeply insightful novel about the pathology of an AFL club, its players and its fans.
'Revelling in their battles, their victories and their relentless interdependence, Game Day asks whether what unites the true believers is stronger than what divides them, and if love of the game can transcend our flaws and imperfections to result in something beautiful. Sved's debut novel is a poignant and clear-eyed exploration of what sport means for Australians, and the intensity with which we pursue and cherish it.' (Publication summary)
- 2015 longlisted Kibble Literary Awards — Nita May Dobbie Award
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