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What a Piece of Work

by Dorothy Porter ...

Series Book 75 - Untapped
Dorothy Porter’s third verse novel deepens her work on Akhenaten and the groundbreaking The Monkey’s Mask with a dark story of sex, death and psychology set in and around Sydney’s iconic asylum Callan Park.It’s 1968, and the sexual revolution, Freudian psychoanalysis and electroshock therapy are all still in full swing. Dr Peter Cyren has a secret as dark as any of his patients’ as he shuttles ... Read more

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Dorothy Porter’s third verse novel deepens her work on Akhenaten and the groundbreaking The Monkey’s Mask with a dark story of sex, death and psychology set in and around Sydney’s iconic asylum Callan Park.It’s 1968, and the sexual revolution, Freudian psychoanalysis and electroshock therapy are all still in full swing. Dr Peter Cyren has a secret as dark as any of his patients’ as he shuttles
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Health, Civilization and the State

A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times

by Dorothy Porter ...

This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of:* pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times* the Enlightenment and its effects* ... Read more

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This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of:* pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times* the Enlightenment and its effects*
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Other Worlds

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Series Book 76 - Untapped
Dorothy Porter’s sixth poetry collection (1997–2001) travels the solar system for comets, distant moons and other heavenly bodies before returning to South America and the Northern Territory and finishing with a selection of commissioned works—including one for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and one for the collection Dick for a Day.This collection sees a number of emerging themes and images that ... Read more

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Dorothy Porter’s sixth poetry collection (1997–2001) travels the solar system for comets, distant moons and other heavenly bodies before returning to South America and the Northern Territory and finishing with a selection of commissioned works—including one for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and one for the collection Dick for a Day.This collection sees a number of emerging themes and images that
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Crete

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The follow-up to the international bestselling The Monkey’s Mask, Dorothy Porter’s Crete is an astonishing collection that traverses Greek myth and Russian poets, the memory of cigarettes and the wild abandon of love.Crete is a heady mix of dark humour, archaeology, breathtaking eroticism, risk-taking and effortless economy. It is a book by a writer at the peak of her highly original powers.This ... Read more

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The follow-up to the international bestselling The Monkey’s Mask, Dorothy Porter’s Crete is an astonishing collection that traverses Greek myth and Russian poets, the memory of cigarettes and the wild abandon of love.Crete is a heady mix of dark humour, archaeology, breathtaking eroticism, risk-taking and effortless economy. It is a book by a writer at the peak of her highly original powers.This
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On Passion

by Dorothy Porter ...

Series series On Series
'I wonder if some of the most deeply passionate experiences of my life have happened between the covers of a book'A wonderful, ultimately joyous, insight into the creative life of one of our best loved poets.In On Passion celebrated Australian poet Dorothy Porter delves headfirst into the passions, both literary and earthly. We discover the young Dorothy Porter's 'drug of choice' was none other ... Read more

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'I wonder if some of the most deeply passionate experiences of my life have happened between the covers of a book'A wonderful, ultimately joyous, insight into the creative life of one of our best loved poets.In On Passion celebrated Australian poet Dorothy Porter delves headfirst into the passions, both literary and earthly. We discover the young Dorothy Porter's 'drug of choice' was none other
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Wild Surmise

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Series Book 77 - Untapped
Dorothy Porter’s fourth verse novel follows the orbits of an astronomer, an astrobiologist and a dying scholar as they move around each other in an unstable conjunction.Alex is searching for signs of life—in polar ice cores, in volcanic chimneys on the sea floor, on the moons of Jupiter, and within and outside her marriage. An affair with the celebrated astronomer Phoebe exerts an ongoing ... Read more

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Dorothy Porter’s fourth verse novel follows the orbits of an astronomer, an astrobiologist and a dying scholar as they move around each other in an unstable conjunction.Alex is searching for signs of life—in polar ice cores, in volcanic chimneys on the sea floor, on the moons of Jupiter, and within and outside her marriage. An affair with the celebrated astronomer Phoebe exerts an ongoing
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Driving Too Fast

by Dorothy Porter ...

Series Book 73 - Untapped
Dorothy Porter's fourth poetry collection is an exhilarating ride through passions found, imagined and richly lived.From a modern, petrol-headed Carmen and Don José to pairs of polar explorers and silent twins, an intersection of birds and asylums, reflections on vanished love and new desire, Driving Too Fast bursts with vitality, a horsepower rhythm and language that turns on a dime.Includes In ... Read more

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Dorothy Porter's fourth poetry collection is an exhilarating ride through passions found, imagined and richly lived.From a modern, petrol-headed Carmen and Don José to pairs of polar explorers and silent twins, an intersection of birds and asylums, reflections on vanished love and new desire, Driving Too Fast bursts with vitality, a horsepower rhythm and language that turns on a dime.Includes In
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A Childhood in Scotland

by Christian Miller ...

Series series Canongate Classics
This coming of age memoir offers an intimate portrait of 1920 life in a Scottish castle—"like stepping through the looking glass into another world" ( Glasgow World, UK)."When I was a little girl, the ghosts were more real to me than the people…" So begins Christian Miller's fascinating autobiography of girlhood in 1920s Scotland. Privileged and yet in many ways deprived, Miller grew up the ... Read more

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This coming of age memoir offers an intimate portrait of 1920 life in a Scottish castle—"like stepping through the looking glass into another world" ( Glasgow World, UK)."When I was a little girl, the ghosts were more real to me than the people…" So begins Christian Miller's fascinating autobiography of girlhood in 1920s Scotland. Privileged and yet in many ways deprived, Miller grew up the
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

by Elena Ferrante ...

Translated by Ann Goldstein ...

Series Book 3 - Neapolitan Novels
Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by "one of the great novelists of our time" ( The New York Times).In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her ... Read more

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Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by "one of the great novelists of our time" ( The New York Times).In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her
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The Story of the Lost Child

by Elena Ferrante ...

Translated by Ann Goldstein ...

Series Book 4 - Neapolitan Novels
The "stunning conclusion" to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyThe Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila, who first met amid the ... Read more

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The "stunning conclusion" to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyThe Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila, who first met amid the
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The Story of a New Name

by Elena Ferrante ...

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Series Book 2 - Neapolitan Novels
A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: "Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it" ( The Boston Globe).The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name continues the epic New York Times–bestselling literary quartet that has inspired an HBO series, and returns us to the world of Lila and Elena, who grew up ... Read more

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A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: "Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it" ( The Boston Globe).The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name continues the epic New York Times–bestselling literary quartet that has inspired an HBO series, and returns us to the world of Lila and Elena, who grew up
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My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante ...

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Series Book 1 - Neapolitan Novels
Named the #1 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times: The "enduring classic" about the lifelong friendship of two women from Naples ( The Atlantic).Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become ... Read more

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Named the #1 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times: The "enduring classic" about the lifelong friendship of two women from Naples ( The Atlantic).Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become
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