The Same Man : George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War by David Lebedoff
$29.95 AUD
$35.00 (14% off)
Category: Literary
For literature buffs and history enthusiasts, this is the first biography to compare George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh, two of the greatest 20th century English writers. First published 2008.
Christina Stead by Hazel Rowley
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary
A new edition of the bestselling biography on Christina Stead that won the 1993 National Book Award for Non Fiction, Australia's equivalent of the Pulitzer. In the United States, it was a 1994 "New York Times" Notable Book. Christina Stead, born in Australia in 1902, sailed to England at the age of twen ...Show more
The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships by Robert B. Silvers
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literary
"Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other. " Many of the illustrious contributors to "The New York Review of Books" have had deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature ...Show more
Borges - A Life by Edwin Williamson
$60.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Edwin Williamson's major new biography is the first in any language to encompass the entire span of Jorge Luis Borges's life and work. Drawing upon previously unknown or unavailable sources, it brings out the human side of Borges: his roots in Argentina, the evolution of his political ideas, his relatio ...Show more
The Groucho Letters : Letters from and to Graucho Marx by Groucho Marx & others
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literary
THE GROUCHO LETTERS enjoys the very best of Groucho's correspondence with the greatest wits and minds of his day. Correspondents include James Thurber, T.S. Eliot, President Harry Truman, Edward R. Murrow, Jerry Lewis, Howard Hughes, Irving Berlin and of course, Chico, Harpo and Gummo. He writes to com ...Show more
Flaubert - A Life by Geoffrey Wall
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A blond giant of a man with green eyes and a resonant actor's voice, Gustave Flaubert was perhaps the finest French writer of the nineteenth century. He lived quietly in the provinces with his widowed mother, composing his novels at the rate of five words an hour. He detested his respectable neighbors, ...Show more
Life Stories - Profiles from The New Yorker by David Remnick
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Modern Library
a Dazzling collection of biographical profiles of some of the most important and most captivating figures of our century.
The Imago: E. L. Grant Watson and Australia by Suzanne Falkiner
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Biographer Suzanne Falkiner presents a fascinating portrait of English writer E. L. Grant Watson, whose experiences as a young man in Australia at the beginning of the twentieth century shaped his later years as a novelist. Enlisted in 1910 by a Cambridge University sponsored expedition of Western Austr ...Show more
A Life of Contrasts: The Autobiography of Diana Mosley by Diana Mosley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Book Life: Reading the Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell 1836-1907 by Eileen Chanin
$59.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Australia's greatest book collector, David Scott Mitchell, gave his extraordinary library and a bequest for its development to the people of Sydney. This is the first comprehensive account of his life and what, how, and why he collected, told through his books, reading, and contemporary correspondence. ...Show more
Reading My Father: A Memoir by Alexandra Styron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Bill Styron's writing and his depression dominated the Styron family landscape, and Alexandra, the youngest of four children and the one who spent the most time alone with her father, learned to navigate his storms in order to survive. She describes a man plagued by demons and not averse to imposing the ...Show more
Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence by BIELE JOELLE ED
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literary
A rare glimpse at the artistic development of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated poets I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.--with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little useless phrases taken out of their contexts and ...Show more