Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down...let's have a little fun...' In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, ...Show more
The Last Love Song - A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
$54.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and co-wrot ...Show more
The Trip to Echo Spring - On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award.Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing ...' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all th ...Show more
Final Chapters - How Famous Authors Died by Jim Bernhard
$18.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
"Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case." --William Saroyan, Pulitzer Prize--winning author Famous authors, like everybody else, know that one day they will die. Final Chapters tells the fascinating stories of more than one hundred writers' encounters ...Show more
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: from Shenanigan to Selfie by John Simpson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a word, and the careful poetry needed to construct its ...Show more
Jane and Me (My Austen Heritage) by Caroline Jane Knight
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Caroline Jane Knight shares more than Jane Austen's name and DNA. As a direct descendant of Jane's brother, Edward Knight, Caroline is the last of the Austen Knight family to grow up at Chawton House on the estate where Jane Austen lived and enjoyed the most productive period of her writing career. Caro ...Show more
On John Marsden: Writers on Writers by Alice Pung
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
An original and moving look by award-winning writer Alice Pung at one of her biggest influences - the much-loved and hugely successful writer John Marsden.In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and crisp, these ...Show more
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie the Pooh by Ann Thwaite
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's acclaimed biography of A. A. Milne, one of the most successful English writers ever, and the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, and of Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and Christopher Robin. But the fictional Christopher ...Show more
Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
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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
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
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Heroes by Stephen Fry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: good
Mortals and Monsters Quests and Adventures Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fl ...Show more