Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. Charmed by the beauties of the city, Gopnik set out to experience for himself the spirit and romance that has so captivated American writers throughout the twentieth c ...Show more
John le Carre: The Biography: The Biography by Adam Sisman
$21.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Non-Fiction
Over half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le Carré a worldwide, bestselling sensation, David Cornwell, the man behind the pseudonym, remains an enigma. He has consistently quarried his life for his writing, and his novels seem to offer tantalizing glimpses of their author - b ...Show more
The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Since her death in 1992, at the age of just fifty-one, Angela Carter has been widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century. Her work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiv ...Show more
Vonnegut Encyclopedia by Marc Leeds
$69.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Now expanded and updated, this authorized compendium to Kurt Vonnegut s novels, stories, essays, and plays is the most comprehensive and definitive edition to date. Over the course of five decades, Kurt Vonnegut created a complex and interconnected web of characters, settings, and concepts. Few modern w ...Show more
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade
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Category: Literary
Evelyn Waugh was described by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil. Waugh's literary reputation has continued to rise since Greene's assessment in 1966. Fifty years on from his death, Philip Eade takes a fresh look ...Show more
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work by Bernadette Brennan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Helen Garner is one of Australia's most important, and some would say, most admired living writers. That admiration is inspired by a sense that she is honest, authentic and fearless in the pursuit of her craft. But Garner also courts controversy, not least because she refuses to be constrained by the ru ...Show more
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "This Year's Must-Read Memoir" (W magazine) about the choices a young woman makes in her search for adventure, meaning, and loveNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYVogue - Time - Esquire - Entertainment Weekly - The Guardian - Harper's Bazaar - Library Journal - NPR A ...Show more
A Free Flame : Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century by Ann-Marie Priest
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
***Highly commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript*** 'I need to be a writer, ' Ruth Park told her future husband, D'Arcy Niland, on the eve of their marriage. 'That's what I need from life.' She was not the only one. At a time when women were considered incapable of bein ...Show more
Oscar: A Biography by Matthew Sturgis
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: near fine
'Wonderfully exciting ... Sturgis's great achievement is to take on board his great flurry of contradictions' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday, 5* review. Oscar Wilde's life - like his wit - was alive with paradox. He was both an early exponent and a victim of 'celebrity culture': famous for being famous, he ...Show more
On David Malouf: Writers on Writers by Nam Le
$17.99 AUD
Category: Literary
'[on reading Malouf for the first time] Here was a very-much-alive half-Lebanese (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English-language writing of the first order. And that in prose, not poetry. The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its im ...Show more
I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
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$32.99 (9% off)
Category: Literary
Hailed by David Sedaris as "perfectly, relentlessly funny" and by Colson Whitehead as "sardonic without being cruel, tender without being sentimental," from the author of the new collection Look Alive Out There. Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a ce ...Show more
On 1984 - A Biography by D J Taylor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named f ...Show more