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Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the End-Game by Robert McCrum
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke, the subject of his acclaimed memoir My Year Off. Ever since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the sh ...Show more
My Year off : Rediscovering Life After a Stroke by Robert McCrum
$23.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Picador Classic
"My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?" Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech drastically impaire ...Show more
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
$20.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
"A remarkable book that takes us to the heart of Shakespeare's art and influence."--James Shapiro When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, the First F ...Show more
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Why do we return to Shakespeare time and again?When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became h ...Show more
The Story of English by Robert McCrum
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
"The Story of English" is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe; today, in one form or another, it is spoken by a billion people around the world. More wi ...Show more
Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum
$36.95 AUD
Category: Literary
To Evelyn Waugh he was simply "the Master." He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings (who is, of course, a pig). Equally impressive is the range of his devotees: Dorothy Parker, John Updike, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Salm ...Show more
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