Salinger by David Shields and Shane Salerno
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company-The Private War of J.D. Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biogra ...Show more
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: good
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more
Things I Don't Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1 by Deborah Levy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory and shape it to her need. Itis a work of ...Show more
Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster . . .' Patrick WhitePatrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogr ...Show more
A Paris Year by Janice MacLeod
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year chronicles, day by day, one woman's French sojourn in the world's most beautiful city. Beginning on her first day in Paris, Janice MacLeod, the author of the best-selling book, Paris Letters, began a journa ...Show more
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is wide-ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom. Stretching from her tumultuous childhood, to the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, from a disastrous marriage to a happy one, from the joy of selling her first book ...Show more
Why I Write by George Orwell
$9.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in today's era of spin.
Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition: v. 1 by Mark Twain
$49.99 AUD
$54.95 (9% off)
Category: Literary | Series: Mark Twain Papers S.
"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away - to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography". Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan ...Show more
Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration by Hannah Ellis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a unique collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work one hundred years after his birth in 1914. Edited by his granddaughter, Hannah Ellis, who introduces each section by theme, the book is divided into three parts concerning T ...Show more
The Most of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Nora Ephron's brilliantly funny writing paved the way for female wits like Lena Dunham and Tina Fey. Here is a comprehensive anthology of Nora Ephron' writings on journalism, feminism, and being a woman; on the importance of food (including of course her favourite recipes), and on the bittersweet realit ...Show more
James Joyce: A Life by Edna O'Brien
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"Joyce fans should thank their lucky stars." -The New York Times Arguably the most influential writer of the twentieth century, James Joyce continues to inspire writers, readers, and thinkers today. Now Edna O'Brien, herself one of Ireland's great writers, approaches the master as only a fellow country ...Show more
The Simplest Words: A Storyteller's Journey by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimat ...Show more