The Tastemaker by Edward White
$26.99 AUD
Category: Literary
The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer who captured the era's icons, and a novelist who created some of the Jazz Age's most salacious stories. A ...Show more
Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism by Steven Watson
$64.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when a young Virgil Thomson knocked on Gertrude Stein's door in Paris. Eight years later, their opera "Four Saints in Three Acts" became a sensation - the longest-running opera in Broadway his ...Show more
This Long Pursuit - Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe and into the lively company of many earlier biographers. Cen ...Show more
Everybody's Autobiography by Gertrude Stein
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literary
The 1937 Sequel to THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B TOKLAS, is Stein's account of her triumphant return to the U.S, and a meditation of the meaning of identity, success and America. ' I used to be fond of saying that America was a land of failure. Most of the great men in America had a long life of early fa ...Show more
Living with a Dead Language by Ann Patty
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
After 35 years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored, aimless and lost in the woods, she hoped to challenge her restless, word-loving brain by beginning a serious study of Latin at local colleges. As she begins to make sense of Latin grammar and syn ...Show more
Mates: The Friendship That Sustained Henry Lawson by Gregory Bryan
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
This well-written book is a dual biography of two prominent Australian poets: Henry Lawson and his best friend Jim Grahame ( Jim Gordon) Lawson believed that Grahame's writing was far superior to his own.
Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies - The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini
$27.00 AUD
Category: Literary
An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's biography probes behind the glittering surface of Vidal's colourful ...Show more
The Brontes: A Family Writes by Christine Nelson
$75.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The Brontes of Haworth were a prodigiously imaginative literary family. From the earliest manuscripts of Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne - written with a quill pen in a minuscule hand designed to mimic the printed page - to explosive novels, such as Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, written in adulth ...Show more
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir by David Hare
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. Yet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street in Hastings. It is a world he believes to be as completely vanished as Victorian England. Now in his first ...Show more
Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris by Derek Johns
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places (rather than 'travel writer'), elegist of the British Empire, novelist, she has fashioned a distinctive prose style that is elegant, fastidious, supple, and sometimes gloriously gaudy. For many r ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I ...Show more