A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Mata ...Show more
The Museum of Words by Georgia Blain
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Memoir of Language, Writing & Mortality
On a bright spring day in 2015, as Georgia Blain was mowing the lawn, she collapsed on a bed of blossoms, blood frothing at her mouth. Waking up to find herself in the back of an ambulance being rushed to hospital, she tries to answer questions, but is unable to speak. After the shock of a bleak prognos ...Show more
Naked by David Sedaris
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: General Adult
In Naked, David Sedaris's message alternately rendered in Fakespeare, Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me. Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas i ...Show more
Much Ado About Shakespeare by Donovan Bixley
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
There has never been a period when Shakespeare was out of fashion. In his lifetime he was incredibly successful, and soon after his death his works were published to the world. Within these pages you will find a new interpretation of Shakespeare's stages, a play on words, which sheds light on the colour ...Show more
How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A sparkling second book from the bestselling author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake in which Crosley leaves her familiar stomping ground of Manhattan to travel The World: elegant writing, mordant wit and genuine insight.
Understory by Inga Simpson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A memoir about staying in one place, told through trees, by the award-winning author of MR WIGG, NEST and WHERE THE TREES WERE. "The understorey is where I live, alongside these plants and creatures. I tend the forest, stand at the foot of trees and look up, gather what has fallen." Each chapter of this ...Show more
Ted and I: A Brother's Memoir by Gerald Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Anecdotal and immensely charming, Ted and I is a unique portrait of a shared childhood between Gerald Hughes and his younger brother Ted, one of the finest and best-loved poets of modern times. Hughes brings alive a period when the two brothers would roam the countryside, camping, making fires, pitching ...Show more
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
$19.95 AUD
Category: Literary
This work presents Schott’s miscellany for the human condition. It offers a unique view of life at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries - a memoir in the form of an encyclopaedia. A beautiful, poignant and humorous memoir from a startlingly talented young writer, Encyclopedia of an Or ...Show more
Madeleine - A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
At the age of fifteen Madeleine saw herself as a painter and pianist, but Ms Medway peereddown at Madeleine during her entrance interview in 1957 and announced: 'You know dear, I thinkyou might write.' Madeleine would write. But not for some time. The Women in Black, a sparkling gem that beliedthe diff ...Show more
William S. Burroughs - A Life by Barry Miles
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Authoritative biography of cult writer William Burroughs (1914-1997). It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.' This assessment holds true today. No-one since then has taken s ...Show more