Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family by Mariel Hemingway
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary
She opens her eyes. The room is dark. She hears yelling and smashed plates, and wishes it was all a terrible dream. But it isn't. This is what it was like growing up as a Hemingway. In this deeply moving, searingly honest new memoir, actress and mental health icon Mariel Hemingway shares in candid detai ...Show more
A Woman on the Edge of Time: a Son's Search for His Mother by Jeremy Gavron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"Jeremy Gavron's quest to find his mother has produced a groundbreaking book and moving portrait of a spirited young woman--a 'captive wife'--who refused to accept the social constraints of her time. Unforgettable."--Tina BrownLondon, 1965 A brilliant young woman has just gassed herself to death, leavin ...Show more
Vonnegut Encyclopedia by Marc Leeds
$69.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Now expanded and updated, this authorized compendium to Kurt Vonnegut s novels, stories, essays, and plays is the most comprehensive and definitive edition to date. Over the course of five decades, Kurt Vonnegut created a complex and interconnected web of characters, settings, and concepts. Few modern w ...Show more
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "This Year's Must-Read Memoir" (W magazine) about the choices a young woman makes in her search for adventure, meaning, and loveNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYVogue - Time - Esquire - Entertainment Weekly - The Guardian - Harper's Bazaar - Library Journal - NPR A ...Show more
I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
$29.99 AUD
$32.99 (9% off)
Category: Literary
Hailed by David Sedaris as "perfectly, relentlessly funny" and by Colson Whitehead as "sardonic without being cruel, tender without being sentimental," from the author of the new collection Look Alive Out There. Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a ce ...Show more
On 1984 - A Biography by D J Taylor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named f ...Show more
Paul Auster & J M Coetzee - Here and Now - Letters 2008-2011 by Paul Auster; J M Coetzee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, "God willing, strike sparks off each other". "Her ...Show more
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is an irresistible blend of literature and memoir revealing the big experiences and little moments that shaped Ann Patchett as a daughter, wife, friend and writer. Here, Ann Patchett shares entertaining and moving stories about her tumultuous childhood, her painful ...Show more
The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Since her death in 1992, at the age of just fifty-one, Angela Carter has been widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century. Her work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiv ...Show more
Oscar: A Biography by Matthew Sturgis
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: near fine
'Wonderfully exciting ... Sturgis's great achievement is to take on board his great flurry of contradictions' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday, 5* review. Oscar Wilde's life - like his wit - was alive with paradox. He was both an early exponent and a victim of 'celebrity culture': famous for being famous, he ...Show more
John le Carre: The Biography: The Biography by Adam Sisman
$21.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Non-Fiction
Over half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le Carré a worldwide, bestselling sensation, David Cornwell, the man behind the pseudonym, remains an enigma. He has consistently quarried his life for his writing, and his novels seem to offer tantalizing glimpses of their author - b ...Show more
Committed: A Love Story by Elizabeth Gilbert
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any ...Show more