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Ransom: from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, An Imaginary Life and Johnno by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer's Iliad--one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus ...Show more
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Winner of the 1996 International Impac Dublin Literary Award. In the 1840s, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. A picture of Australia at th ...Show more
The Complete Stories by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Thirty-one epic stories from Australia's award-winning author David Malouf. David Malouf's imagination inhabits shocking violence, quick humor, appealing warmth and harsh cruelty with equal intensity. He shares tales of bookish boys, taciturn men and intimate stories of men and women looking for someth ...Show more
The Great World: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1991 by David Malouf
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
For the two men in this novel, war was supposed to be a testing ground. But it proved to be an ordeal of a different kind. Spanning 70 years of Australian life, from Sydney's Cross to the backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, this is a novel of lost innocence and witness.
The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World by David Malouf
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In this elegant treatise, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life? With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life - what it is, and what make ...Show more
The One Day by David Malouf
$6.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks (Number 7) | Reading Level: very good
'Silence was a deeply established tradition. Men used it as a form of self-protection; it saved those who had experienced the horrors of war from the emotional trauma of experiencing it all over again in the telling. And it saved women and children, back home, from the terrible knowledge of what they ha ...Show more
The Writing Life by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Who else, but a writer, is really able to interrogate the work of other writers? From Christina Stead, Les Murray and Patrick White to Proust, Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte, David Malouf reads and examines the work of writers who have challenged, inspired and entertained us for generations. He also e ...Show more
Typewriter Music by David Malouf
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
David Malouf's brilliant collection of poems begins with a memory of new love - with 'grace unasked for, urgencies that boom under the pocket of a shirt' - and ends in the intimate territory of the long-familiar where there is no need for words. This volume is marked by an astonishing breadth of intelli ...Show more