EMILY MAGUIRE

NEWS & EVENTS

  • Emily will be appearing at Women of Letters on Sunday 27th November at the Thornbury Theatre, Melbourne.
  • Emily is a proud supporter of Room to Read Australia.
  • Emily Maguire has been awarded the 2011 NSW Writer's Fellowship

Fiction

  • Smoke in the Room
  • The Gospel According to Luke
  • Taming the Beast

Non-fiction

  • Articles & essays
  • Your Skirt's Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice
  • Princesses & Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity



Your Skirt's Too ShortYSTScover  sex, power, choice

After many waves of feminism, where are we? Are young women really either massive sluts or helpless dolls? And anyway, what’s the definition of a slut?



Young women have a lot of questions. In Your Skirt’s Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice, a revised young adult edition of her book Princesses and Pornstars, Emily Maguire ignites discussion on issues relevant to teenagers. Drawing on her adolescence and the experiences faced by teens today, Maguire looks for answers and a way forward. This personal and illuminating book is a bridge to enable young women and men to understand the issues behind them and those ahead of them.


Guided by the wisdom born of experiences, both good and bad, Maguire offers advice without lecturing in this engaging and frank book that will inform and equip readers of all ages.

Winner of Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist 2010 



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Summer, Sydney, and holed up in a tiny flat off Broadway are idealistic American Adam, weary activist Graeme, and wild, misunderstood Katie. Each is searching for answers to life's biggest questions – why are we here; what is love; what constitutes betrayal – and thrust together, over an intense two-week period, they begin to form answers. In doing so, they must first confront their darkest demons, both within and without...

Also available from Picador 

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More about Taming the Beast including reading guide and extract

More about The Gospel According to Luke


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    • Non-fiction books: Text Publishing
    • Novels: Pan Macmillan
    • Literary Agent: The Viney Agency
    • Booked Out Speakers Agency