Life Stories - Profiles from The New Yorker by David Remnick
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Modern Library
a Dazzling collection of biographical profiles of some of the most important and most captivating figures of our century.
The Imago: E. L. Grant Watson and Australia by Suzanne Falkiner
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Biographer Suzanne Falkiner presents a fascinating portrait of English writer E. L. Grant Watson, whose experiences as a young man in Australia at the beginning of the twentieth century shaped his later years as a novelist. Enlisted in 1910 by a Cambridge University sponsored expedition of Western Austr ...Show more
A Life of Contrasts: The Autobiography of Diana Mosley by Diana Mosley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Book Life: Reading the Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell 1836-1907 by Eileen Chanin
$59.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Australia's greatest book collector, David Scott Mitchell, gave his extraordinary library and a bequest for its development to the people of Sydney. This is the first comprehensive account of his life and what, how, and why he collected, told through his books, reading, and contemporary correspondence. ...Show more
Reading My Father: A Memoir by Alexandra Styron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Bill Styron's writing and his depression dominated the Styron family landscape, and Alexandra, the youngest of four children and the one who spent the most time alone with her father, learned to navigate his storms in order to survive. She describes a man plagued by demons and not averse to imposing the ...Show more
Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence by BIELE JOELLE ED
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literary
A rare glimpse at the artistic development of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated poets I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.--with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little useless phrases taken out of their contexts and ...Show more
Australian Book Collectors: Some Noted Australian Book Collectors and Collections of the 19th and 20th Centuries by Charles Stitz
$125.00 AUD
Category: Literary
I Love a Broad Margin To My Life by Maxine Hong Kingston
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Born in 1940, one of eight children, Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America. This memoir recalls her first major work "The Woman Warrior" in which she blended Chinese myth with fiction and autobiography to reflect on her mother's past life in China and the experience of im ...Show more
Christopher Isherwood Diaries: v. 1 by Christopher Isherwood
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists a ...Show more
The Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary
In this new and engaging study Alex Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the modern period. During the 1930s and 1940s, a rich network of cultural and personal encounters was the backdrop for a modern English renaissance, with English artists explor ...Show more
Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford by Leslie Brody
$42.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, mischief-maker, muckraker. J.K. Rowling calls her her "most influential writer." Those who knew her best simply called her Decca. Born into one of Britain's most famous aristocratic families, she eloped with Winston Chur ...Show more
Muriel Spark by Martin Stannard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Muriel Spark ended was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Hers is a Cinderella story, the first thirty-nine years of which she presented in her autobiography, CURRICULUM VITAE (1992), politely blurring the intensity of her darker moments: her relations with her brother, mother, son, husb ...Show more