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On Quiet
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
On Quiet
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Nikki Gemmell
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Series | On Series |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:128 | Dimensions(mm): Height 112,Width 150 |
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Category/Genre | Literary essays Mind, Body and Spirit |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780733644108
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Classifications | Dewey:158 |
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Audience | General | Tertiary Education (US: College) | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Hachette Australia
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Imprint |
Hachette Australia
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Publication Date |
1 January 2020 |
Publication Country |
Australia
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Description
Internationally bestselling author Nikki Gemmell writes on the power of quiet in today's shouty world. Quiet comes as a shock in these troubled times. Quietism means 'devotional contemplation and abandonment of the will ... a calm acceptance of things as they are'. Gemmell makes the case for why quiet is steadily gaining ground in this noisy age: Why we need it now more than ever. How to glean quiet, hold on to it, and work within it.
Author Biography
Nikki Gemmell is the bestselling author of 13 novels and four works of non-fiction. Her books have been translated into 22 languages. She was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, and lived in London for many years, but has now returned to Australia. Her distinctive writing has gained her critical acclaim in France, where she's been described as a 'female Jack Kerouac'. The French literary magazine Lire included her in a list of the 50 most important writers in the world - those it believes will have a significant influence on the literature of the 21st century. Gemmell pens a weekly column for The Weekend Australian Magazine and she also writes novels for children. Four of her books - Shiver, Cleave, The Bride Stripped Bare and The Book of Rapture - made the longlist of Favourite Australian Novels as chosen by readers of Australian Book Review.
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