Yeats: The Man and the Masks by Richard Ellmann
$43.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The most influential poet of his age, Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. In this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of the Irish Free State, libidinous old man, and Nobel Prize winner.
The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets by Michael Schmidt
$59.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt, The First Poets brings to life the great Greek poets who gave our poetic tradition its first bearings and whose works have had an enduring influence on our literature and our imagination. Starting with the legendary Orpheus an ...Show more
The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Since her death in 1992, at the age of just fifty-one, Angela Carter has been widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century. Her work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiv ...Show more
Second Half First by Drusilla Modjeska
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A stunning new memoir from one of Australia's most highly acclaimed writers Beginning with the disastrous events of the night before her fortieth birthday, in Second Half First Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the experiences of the past thirty years that have shaped her writing, her reading and the way ...Show more
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter by Matthew Dennison
$44.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter's remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-thre ...Show more
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; th ...Show more
A House Full of Daughters: Seven Generations, One Family by Juliet Nicolson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
As read on BBC Radio 4. All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers - the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita, her ...Show more
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In Other Words is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession- that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although La ...Show more
The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carre
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.' The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, ...Show more
The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World by William Egginton
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the most widely read author in human history. Cervantes di ...Show more
The Story of Beatrix Potter by Sarah Gristwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: National Trust History & Heritage
To this day, Beatrix Potter's tales delight children and grown-ups around the world. But few people realise how extraordinary her own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern businesswoman. A talented artist who became a scientific expert ...Show more
Lara: The Untold Love by Anna Pasternak
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya - the true tragedy behind 'Dr Zhivago'. 'Doctor Zhivago' has sold in its millions yet the true love story that inspired it has never been fully explored. Pasternak would often say 'Lara exists, go and meet her', direct ...Show more