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Come to Me My Melancholy Baby by Kate Jennings
Category: Poetry
A new edition of acclaimed author Kate Jennings's first book of poetry. These celebrated poems - including her incendiary moratorium speech that launched the second wave of feminism in Australia - will be performed as part of a major music event to be held in Melbourne in October.
Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings
Category: Fiction
Funny, liberal and left-leaning, Cath is an unlikely candidate to be writing speeches for Wall Street investment bankers. She
Moral Hazard: Text Classics by Kate Jennings
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
I disapproved of bankers, on principle. Not that I knew any. Until this job, I had worked and made friends with people who shared my views. Mostly moral, mostly kind. An unlikely candidate, then, for the job of executive speechwriter, to be putting words in the mouths of plutocrats deeply suspicious of ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 32 - On the US Election by Delia Falconer (Editor); Kate Jennings
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Where were you when America elected Barack Obama? Kate Jennings was in New York, eyes wide open, completing her take on an amazing time- 'the run-up to the election ... a time when every day felt like a year and we became slightly crazed from worry but also mesmerised, unable to switch off the cable new ...Show more
Snake by Kate Jennings
Category: Fiction
My life is about to begin. This is the only thought in Irene's head on the day she marries a handsome Second World War veteran and becomes a farmer's wife. But Irene quickly grows restless. Bored to her back teeth, she is scornful of her dutiful husband, heedless of her children. She wants adventure, to ...Show more
Snake by Kate Jennings
Category: Fiction
'The work of a powerful imagination.' CAROL SHIELDS'A wonderful balance between deft, dry comedy and genuine heartbreak' Sunday TimesMy life is about to begin. This is the only thought in Irene's head on the day she marries a handsome Second World War veteran and becomes a farmer's wife. But Irene quick ...Show more
Stanley and Sophie by JENNINGS Kate
Category: Biography
A wise, wry book about two border terriers, by the keenly intelligent, prize-winning writer who lost her heart to them.
Stanley and Sophie - A Memoir by JENNINGS Kate
Category: Biography
A wise, wry book about two border terriers - by the keenly intelligent, prize-winning writer who lost her heart to them. 'I fell in love with a prideful, tense bundle of muscle and sinew that stood seventeen inches high. You would see a small brown dog; I saw perfection.' So begins the story of Kate J ...Show more
Trouble - Evolution of a Radical: Selected Writings 1970-2010 by Kate Jennings
Category: Biography
In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally into silence with a pull-no-punches speech calling for women's empowerment. Brave, impassioned and searingly funny, it set the tone for an unconventional life. A few years later she was on her way to New York, where she would make her na ...Show more