Publisher details

Author: Nikki Gemmell
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Genre: Non Fiction
Released: 02 April, 2018
ISBN: 9780522873238

On Quiet

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Synopsis

International bestselling author, Nikki Gemmell bring us an essay on the power of quiet in a shouty world.Gemmell makes the case for why quiet and its companion, a calm acceptance of things as they are, is quietly doing the rounds in this belligerent age.‘The shock of quiet. Why we need it more than ever now. How to glean it, hold on to it, and recalibrate within it.’

About the author

Nikki Gemmell

Nikki Gemmell has written four novels, Shiver, Cleave, Lovesong, The Bride Stripped Bare and The Book Of Rapture, and one non-fiction book, Pleasure: An Almanac for the Heart. Her work has been internationally critically acclaimed and translated into many languages.In France she's been described as a female Jack Kerouac, in Australia as one of the most original and engaging authors of her generation and in the US as one of the few truly original voices to emerge in a long time.Born in Wollongong, Australia, she now lives in London.