Hugh Trevor-Roper : The Biography by Adam Sisman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Hugh Trevor-Roper's life is a rich subject for a biography - with elements of Greek tragedy, comedy and moments of high farce. Clever, witty and sophisticated, Trevor-Roper was the most brilliant historian of his generation. Until his downfall, he seemed to have everything: wealth and connections, a cha ...Show more
A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
$46.95 AUD
Category: Literary
On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello stands the Villa Cimbrone - a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters that move through Michael Holroyd's new book are destined never to meet - they lived through different eras and reside in different countries. Yet the Villa Cimbrone unites them ...Show more
Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed to grow up and be a missionary. Instead she falls in love with a woman. Disaster. Written when Jeanette was only twenty-five, ...Show more
Charles Dickens : A Life by Claire Tomalin
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pick ...Show more
James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker
$60.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In almost every recent poll, Ulysses has been acclaimed the greatest novel of the twentieth century. It is generally regarded as one of the outstanding landmarks of literary modernism, as important as T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land in expressing the experimental and international spirit of post-war Europe ...Show more
Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Jon Spence's fascinating biography paints an intimate portrait of Jane Austen. "Becoming Jane Austen" gives the fullest account we have of her falling in love with the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy, a relationship that was more serious and enduring than previously believed and one that had a profou ...Show more
Boy: Popular Penguins by Roald Dahl
$13.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Korean edition of Boy by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake, translated by Jeong Hwoi Seong. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
War and Peace and Sonya by Judith Armstrong
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In 1862 Sonya Tolstoy married the greatest author the world has ever known. For forty-eight years they shared their lives in an enmeshed union that was both passionate and combative. Sixteen years younger than her husband, Sonya bore him thirteen children and worked for years as his copyist, rewriting c ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Alexandra Harris' hugely acclaimed book "Romantic Moderns" (winner of the 2010 "Guardian" First Book Award) overturned our picture of modernist culture during the interwar years. In this, her second book, she brings her attention to one of the towering figures of literary modernism. It is an intensely p ...Show more
The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary
In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson-better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll-dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes, draped the folds of cloth low enough to expose her bare chest, asked her to look deep into his eyes-and then snap ...Show more
William Golding - The Man Who Wrote "Lord of the Flies" by John Carey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary
The first authorized biography of one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century. William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. After wards he returned t ...Show more
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who wrote them. Brad ...Show more