Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
This is the "New York Times" bestseller. 'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode her, from the waters of Key West to the ...Show more
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
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life by Andy Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir. Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved and no time at all for reading. Or so he kept telling himself. But, no matter how ...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
The Silver Moon: Reflections on life, death and writing by Bryce Courtenay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A collection of fascinating life-lessons from Australia's favorite storyteller, including insights from his final months. Each of us has a place to return to in our minds, a place of clarity and peace, a place to think, to create, to dream. For Bryce Courtenay this place was a waterhole in Africa where ...Show more
Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of mor ...Show more
Between Gods by Alison Pick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Alison Pick was born in the 1970s and raised in a loving, supportive family, but as a teenager she made a discovery that changed her understanding of who she was for ever. She learned that her Pick grandparents, who had escaped from Czechoslovakia during WWII, were Jewish, and that most of this side of ...Show more
Summer in the Shadow of Byron by Andrew Stott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Villa Diodati. 1816. In a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and his young wife Mary, gathered for the summer. For three glittering months, this party of young bohemians would share their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. It was a period of extraordinary creati ...Show more
The Mistress's Daughter - A Memoir by A. M. Homes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to cor ...Show more
Updike by Adam Begley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike--a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work.In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portr ...Show more
The Iceberg: A Memoir by Marion Coutts
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary
"In 2008 the art critic Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The tumour was located in the area controlling speech and language, and would eventually rob him of the ability to speak. He died early in 2011. Marion Coutts was his wife. In short bursts of beautiful, textured prose, Coutts describ ...Show more
Curtain Up: Agatha Christie's Life in the Theatre by Julius Green
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A revealing and witty new examination of how Agatha Christie became the world's most successful and popular female playwright, including details of never-before-published scripts and stories. Published in celebration of Agatha Christie's 125th birthday, Curtain Up! is an essential purchase for Agatha Ch ...Show more