Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 by Volker Weidermann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of f ...Show more
Have You Been Good?: A Memoir by Vanessa Nicolson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A powerful memoir from the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, chronicling holidays at Sissinghurst, reckless youth, and the tragic loss of her 19-year-old daughter RosaVanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious ...Show more
Being There by David Malouf
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Words, music, art and performance. The stuff of a satisfying life. After exploring the idea of home, where and what it is in A First Place, what does it mean to be a writer and where writing begins in The Writing Life, David Malouf moves on to words and music and art and performance in Being There. With ...Show more
Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"Peeling the Onion" is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece, "The Tin Drum", in Paris. Grass' parents ran a corner shop, but his mother, whom he adored, encouraged him t ...Show more
An Unsentimental Bloke: The life and work of C.J. Dennis by Philip Butterss
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literary
The Sentimental Bloke and Doreen are famous characters in Australian popular culture, but their creator deserves to be better known. C.J. Dennis transformed the larrikin from a street thug into a respectable image of Australian identity, and helped shape the Anzac legend. Many people regarded Dennis him ...Show more
The Shock of Recognition: The Books and Music That Have Inspired Me by Barry Jones
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'How much time do I have left? A hundred days? A thousand? If I knew I was going to die next week but could be taken to see The Marriage of Figaro tonight, would I go? Absolutely.'In a long and generously lived life, Barry Jones has been on an endless quest to share the extraordinary and the beautiful, ...Show more
Call of the Outback by Marianne van Velzen
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Long before Robyn Davidson wrote Tracks, the extraordinary Ernestine Hill was renowned for her intrepid travels across Australia's vast outback.After the birth of her illegitimate son, Ernestine Hill abandoned her comfortable urban life as a journalist for a nomadic one, writing about this country's vas ...Show more
My Own Story: Suffragette by Emmeline Pankhurst
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
This work is one of the top biographies written by Emmeline Pankhurst. The closing paragraphs of this book were written in the late summer of 1914, when the armies of every great power in Europe were being mobilised for savage, unsparing, barbarous warfare-against one another, against small and unaggres ...Show more
Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow by Suzanne Falkiner
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands - written in his early twenties after living on a remote Aboriginal mission - won the Miles Franklin Award for 1958. In later life, after publishing seven remarkable novels and several collections of poetry ...Show more
The Last Love Song - A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
$65.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and co-wrot ...Show more
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In this sequel to Costa Biography Award Winning Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill writes vivaciously, poignantly, and with extraordinary clarity about what really matters in the end, from the remarkable vantage point of her late nineties. Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no ...Show more