Making Babies by Anne Enright
$28.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. Making Babies, is the intimate, engaging, and very funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, it has the rush of good news - ...Show more
Alphabetical Diaries (US HB) by Sheila Heti
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning author of Pure Colour, in the vein of Joe Brainard and Edouard Leve.
Larry McMurtry by Tracy Daugherty
$65.00 AUD
Category: Literary
<b>A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Tracy Daugherty.</b> In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chr ...Show more
Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"GIRL, INTERRUPTED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 'Spellbinding' - JENNETTE MCCURDY 'It's extraordinary... make your way to this book.' - SARAH JESSICA PARKER Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartl ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDYRestless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's career was shor ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Between Friends by Claudia Fitzherbert (Editor)
$27.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Hotlby, written from 1920 to 1935, tell the story of an extraordinary friendship that created a model for a new kind of independent woman, after the First World War. This is a literary relationship that began when the women met at Somerville ...Show more
The Upstairs Delicatessen by Dwight Garner
$50.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal classic. Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book you're holding is ...Show more
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'Life, like a poem, is a series of choices' In her long-awaited debut memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, award-winning poet Maggie Smith explores in lyrical vignettes the end of her marriage and the beginning of a surprising new life. With the spirit of reflection and empathy she's known for, ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more
The Farmer's Wife by Helen Rebanks
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A gorgeous portrait of Helen Rebanks's Lake District life. As dawn breaks on the farm, Helen Rebanks makes a mug of tea, relishing the few minutes of quiet before the house stirs. Within the hour the sounds of her husband, James, and their four children will fill the kitchen. There are also six sheepdo ...Show more
The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carre was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait ...Show more