Dear Oliver by Susan R. Barry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"Dear Dr. Sacks . . . You asked me if I could imagine what the world would look like when viewed with two eyes. I told you that I thought I could . . . But, I was wrong." At once intimate and inspiring, in this book Susan Barry shares the heartfelt letters through which she and Oliver Sacks became dear ...Show more
Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"GIRL, INTERRUPTED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 'Spellbinding' - JENNETTE MCCURDY 'It's extraordinary... make your way to this book.' - SARAH JESSICA PARKER Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartl ...Show more
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a s ...Show more
The Promised Party - Kahlo, Basquiat and Me by Jennifer Clement
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Growing up in '60s Mexico City, Jennifer Clement lived next door to Frida Kahlo's house. It was an unorthodox and bohemian childhood, living alongside artists, communists, revolutionaries and poets, and one that allowed an awakening of creative freedom and curiosity about the world. Leaving behind the ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
There Is No Blue by Martha Baillie
$37.00 AUD
Category: Literary
THE GLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023Martha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's passing, her father's life, and her sister's suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time. Three essays, three deaths. ...Show more
The Letters of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney; Christopher Reid
$90.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The letters provide us with an intimate, multi-layered understanding of this extraordinarypoet's life and mind.
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...Show more
A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
With insight, humour, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and inc ...Show more
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
$43.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, t ...Show more
Frank Moorhouse: A life by Catharine Lumby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...Show more
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
From one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman.'Meticulously written and deeply moving . . . A triumph' JACKIE KAY'Full of tenderness and beauty. This book is a revelation and a rest ...Show more