Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O'Brien
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enoug ...Show more
Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed by Lesley Harding, Kendrah Morgan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Heide Art in Victoria | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the truth to be told through this intimate biography of John and Sunday Reed. Equal parts romance and tragedy, Modern Love explores the lives of these champions of successive gene ...Show more
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. Charmed by the beauties of the city, Gopnik set out to experience for himself the spirit and romance that has so captivated American writers throughout the twentieth c ...Show more
A Free Flame : Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century by Ann-Marie Priest
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
***Highly commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript*** 'I need to be a writer, ' Ruth Park told her future husband, D'Arcy Niland, on the eve of their marriage. 'That's what I need from life.' She was not the only one. At a time when women were considered incapable of bein ...Show more
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
'One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation' Daily Telegraph In August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. Being a writer, she decided to write about her experience - and to tell a story she had not yet t ...Show more
Arthur Miller: 1962-2005 (Volume 2) by Christopher Bigsby
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
The second volume of the definitive biography of one of the greatest modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005). The first volume of Christopher Bigsby's award-winning biography of Arthur Miller was hailed as a masterpiece and the definitive account of Miller's early years. This is the second hal ...Show more
Theft by Hanif Kureishi
$9.95 AUD
Category: Literary
'I was beginning to love my thief, a man I barely knew, but whom I had trusted and even liked, and who had taken my savings, amongst many other crimes.' A bravura piece of very personal reportage by Hanif Kureishi about the man who stole his life savings. Nearing sixty and needing to plan for his and hi ...Show more
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
From the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace*Rabbit superheroes. A theory of masks and capes. Victorian otherlands. From her 1940s childhood to her time at Harvard, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with SF. In 2010, she delivered a lecture series at Emory University called 'In Other ...Show more
Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Tove Jansson's first book for adults drew on her childhood memories to capture afresh the enchantments and fears of growing up in Helsinki in the nineteen tens and twenties. Described as both a memoir and 'a book of superb stories' by Ali Smith, her startlingly evocative prose offers a glimpse of the my ...Show more
Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time by S. N. Behrman
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary
An exceptional biography of the world's most famous art dealer.
What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writers. One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and ...Show more
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Evelyn Waugh was described by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil. Waugh's literary reputation has continued to rise since Greene's assessment in 1966. Fifty years on from his death, Philip Eade takes a fresh look ...Show more