Country Girl - A Memoir by Edna O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."--National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was und ...Show more
William S. Burroughs - A Life by Barry Miles
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Authoritative biography of cult writer William Burroughs (1914-1997). It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.' This assessment holds true today. No-one since then has taken s ...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
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
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
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
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
The Man with the Golden Typewriter: The Bond Letters by Fergus Fleming
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, 'My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold.' He had bought the golden typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel, Casino Royale. It marked ...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
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