Australian Book Collectors: Some Noted Australian Book Collectors and Collections of the 19th and 20th Centuries by Charles Stitz
$125.00 AUD
Category: Literary
I Love a Broad Margin To My Life by Maxine Hong Kingston
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Born in 1940, one of eight children, Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America. This memoir recalls her first major work "The Woman Warrior" in which she blended Chinese myth with fiction and autobiography to reflect on her mother's past life in China and the experience of im ...Show more
Christopher Isherwood Diaries: v. 1 by Christopher Isherwood
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists a ...Show more
The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox- potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the netsuke, they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined The ...Show more
The Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary
In this new and engaging study Alex Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the modern period. During the 1930s and 1940s, a rich network of cultural and personal encounters was the backdrop for a modern English renaissance, with English artists explor ...Show more
Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford by Leslie Brody
$42.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, mischief-maker, muckraker. J.K. Rowling calls her her "most influential writer." Those who knew her best simply called her Decca. Born into one of Britain's most famous aristocratic families, she eloped with Winston Chur ...Show more
Muriel Spark by Martin Stannard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Muriel Spark ended was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Hers is a Cinderella story, the first thirty-nine years of which she presented in her autobiography, CURRICULUM VITAE (1992), politely blurring the intensity of her darker moments: her relations with her brother, mother, son, husb ...Show more
The Letters of Sylvia Beach by Sylvia Beach
$44.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate Par ...Show more
Voltaire by Ian Davidson
$60.00 AUD
Category: Literary
We think of Voltaire as the epitome of the Enlightenment; in his own time he was also the most famous and controversial figure in Europe. This dazzling new biography celebrates his extraordinary life through the thousands of letters he wrote to have survived. Davidson tells the whole, rich story of Volt ...Show more
Iris Murdoch : A Writer at War - Letters and diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-45 by Iris Murdoch (editor Peter Conradi)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary
The never before published diaries and letters of Iris Murdoch, during WWII. Includes correspondence with the poet Frank Thomson and the diplomat David Hicks. They shed a new light on the life and mind of a brilliant young writer. Edited by Peter Conradi, Murdoch's friend and the author of her biography ...Show more
Charles Dickens by Michael Slater
$52.50 AUD
Category: Literary
This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless ...Show more
The Other Elizabeth Taylor by Nicola Beauman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Persephone Classics
This is the first biography of one of the outstanding English writers of the last century. Betty Coles became Elizabeth Taylor upon her marriage in 1936 when she was 23. Her first novel appeared in the same year, 1945, as the actress Elizabeth Taylor was appearing in National Velvet and began her asce ...Show more