Anna Jackson

Shortlisted, 2025 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards, Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-Fiction Shortlisted, 2025 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards, The Jewish Independent Award for Young Jewish Writers Shortlisted, 2024 Queensland Literary Awards, The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the...

"If sometimes I think of thoughts as being behind the eyes, sometimes I think of them more as floating, in a kind of cloud around the outside of my head." Part autobiography of thought, part philosophical tract, part poetics, a book about chickens and family and seasons, Terrier, Worrier is a literary sequence to be relished as language and as...

Bringing together more than 100 items of clothing, this book reveals the intricacies of Japanese dress from the 18th century to the present. Including garments for women, men and children, the details have been selected both for their exquisite beauty and craftsmanship, and for how much they impart about the wearer's identity, be it age, status or taste. A comprehensive...

This sumptuous book explores the important role that woodblock prints played in the fashionable world of Edo-period Japan (1603–1868). 140 ukiyo-e – ‘pictures of the floating world’ – offer us a vivid view of the culture of entertainment, style and glamour that developed in bustling urban centres. Expert curators bring to life the scenes and figures depicted, and highlight the...