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Books That Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life's most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego. Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich us in all ...Show more
Salinger by David Shields
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company-The Private War of J.D. Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biogra ...Show more
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down...let's have a little fun...' In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, ...Show more
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is wide-ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom. Stretching from her tumultuous childhood, to the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, from a disastrous marriage to a happy one, from the joy of selling her first book ...Show more
The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way - The Writing Life by Charles Bukowski; David Stephen Calonne (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profess ...Show more
Henry and June (From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin) by Anais Nin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Drawn from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, "Henry and June" is an intimate account of a woman's sexual awakening. It covers a single momentous year - from late 1931 to the end of 1932 - during Nin's life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. She fell in love with June's ...Show more
On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activ ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017 'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blon ...Show more
Going Solo by Ronald Dahl
$12.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism esprit de corps that have characterised the Royal Air Force throughou ...Show more
Night Fishing by Vicki Hastrich
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A luminous and remarkable memoir of a singular life in art and nature.
William Burroughs and the Cult of Rock and Roll by Casey Rae
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented-until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult o ...Show more
Creative Lives: Personal Papers of Australian Writers and Artists by Penelope Hanley
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary
These papers give fascinating insight into the lives of creative Australians. Among these are the stories of Henry Lawsonâ≢s sporadic imprisonment and alcoholism, and the shock discovery that Patrick White had not destroyed his papers, despite his insistence to the contrary. It is gener ...Show more