Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 by Iris Murdoch
$69.99 AUD
Category: Literary
'Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real'. This selection of Iris Murdoch's most interesting and important letters gives us a living portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. Here for the first time is Murdoch in her own words ...Show more
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
It's the difference between surviving life and living life. It's the difference between taking a shower and teaching your monkey butler how to shampoo your hair. Jenny Lawson - aka The Bloggess - returns with the follow-up to her bestselling memoir Let's Pretend This Never Happened, recounting stories f ...Show more
Interestingly Enough... the Life of Tom Keneally by Stephany Evans Steggall
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
For five decades Tom Keneally has been one of Australia's most loved literary figures. Celebrated as one of the world's finest writers and known especially for the Booker Prize-winning Schindler's Ark, he is also respected for his humanitarianism and commitment to republicanism and other causes. The bre ...Show more
Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father by Adam Mars-Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary
When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in the ...Show more
Pedigree: A Memoir by Patrick Modiano
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters (Hardcover)
In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early years shadowy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dr ...Show more
Brooklyn - A Personal Memoir with the Lost Photographs of David Attie by David Attie
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In 2002, The Little Bookroom published Truman Capote's homage to Brooklyn, A House in the Heights. In 2014, the original photographs commissioned to illustrate the 1959 piece were discovered by the photographer's son. Capote's essay was the first magazine assignment for David Attie and he shot many of t ...Show more
The Writing Life by David Malouf
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Who else, but a writer, is really able to interrogate the work of other writers? From Christina Stead, Les Murray and Patrick White to Proust, Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte, David Malouf reads and examines the work of writers who have challenged, inspired and entertained us for generations. He also e ...Show more
The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe Between the Wars by Joseph Roth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold Antiqua letters in which its banal name is spelled out shining across the roofs of the gently banked houses are in my eye metal flags, metal bannerets that instead of fluttering shine out th ...Show more
Ted Hughes - the Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE A magisterial life of Ted Hughes - identified recently as the only English poet since the First World War with a claim to true greatness and one of Britain's most important writers - to be published on National Poetry Day by prize-winning biographer Jonathan ...Show more
Under Cover: Adventures in the Art of Editing by Craig Munro
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A candid, insightful memoir by one of Australia's foremost editors, who worked with many of the country's finest writers. It started in 1971, when Craig Munro was a young editor at the University of Queensland Press, with just a typewriter and a thumbed copy of the Chicago Manual of Style on his desk. O ...Show more
Penguin and the Lane Brothers: The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution by Stuart Kells
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A ground-breaking counter-history of Penguin Books - both amusing and and with a strong new Australian aspect. How did the three Lane brothers enter publishing and build Penguin into a global powerhouse? As this new book shows, their innovation and the creative opposition among them would prove to be t ...Show more
Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini, Ph.D.
$55.00 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