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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “francesca rendle short”
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  • Bite Your Tongue

    by Francesca Rendle-Short ...
    Mrs Angel Rendle-Short said that a book given to her daughter, Francesca, as an English textbook at school would teach her to be a permissive rebel. (Courier Mail, 1975) There are some things you should never speak about. In Francesca Rendle-Short's family, silence was golden. So to break ranks and tell stories about her peculiar family life and her mother's moral crusading should send this ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imago

    by Francesca Rendle-Short ...
    Molly Rose Moon dreamt of worms the night before she married Jimmy Brown in Tooting Bec. The young couple were on their way to Australia. When Molly agrees to go on a journey across hemispheres she's looking for an escape from home. Once there she meets Marj. Fat Marj. Imago is a story of love and obsession, of seduction and transformations. It's a story of metamorphosis, taking and eating, larvae ... Read more

    $12.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Languages of Water

    by Eugen Bacon, Francesca Rendle-Short, David Carlin, Dominique Hecq, Quyen Nguyen-Hoang, Erin Latimer, Andrew Chin, Oz Hardwick, Aldegunda Matoyo, Clara Chow, Tamantha Smith, Clare Rhoden, Cheng Tim Tim, Stephen Embelton, Nicki Bacon, Seb Doubinski, Pandora, E. Don Harpe, Ramya Jirashinghe, Kyongmi Park, Zephyr Li, Nuzo Onoh, Andrew Hook, Sudeep Chatterjee ...
    Languages of Water is a rare but intimate fusion of East, West and Africa, a stunning artefact of writerly immersion and cultural exchange. This child of digital collaboration brings together writers, illustrators and translators of poetry, fiction and essays, and refuses to be contained.In a playful interrogation of French literary theorist, critic and philosopher Roland Barthes' le plaisir du ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Near and the Far

    new stories from the Asia-Pacific region

    Edited by David Carlin, Francesca Rendle-Short ...
    From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them.It’s a sweltering night in Kuala Lumpur, and a journalist is protesting in a city on the edge of meltdown. It’s post-9/11 San Francisco, and a woman meets her foster child, who provokes painful reminders of her past. It’s contemporary Bangkok, and a writer’s encounter ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • A to Z of Creative Writing Methods

    Edited by Dr Deborah Wardle, Julienne van Loon, Dr Stayci Taylor, Dr Francesca Rendle-Short, Dr Peta Murray, Professor David Carlin ...
    Series series Research in Creative Writing
    The A to Z of Creative Writing Methods is an alphabetical collection of essays to prompt consideration of method within creative writing research and practice.Almost sixty contributors from a range of writing traditions and across multiple forms and genre are represented in this volume: from poets, essayists, novelists and performance writers, to graphic novelists, illustrators, and those engaged ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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