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A Man of Parts by David Lodge
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now...' Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books ...Show more
Daisy Miller a Study by David (INT) David (EDT); Lodge Henry; Lodge James
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conv ...Show more
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Retired Professor of Linguistics Desmond Bates is going deaf. It's a bother for his wife who has an enviably successful new career and is too busy to be endlessly repeating herself. Roles are reversed with his aging father, who resents his son's attempts to help him. And then there's Alex, a student who ...Show more
Ginger, You're Barmy by David Lodge
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
When it isn't prison, it's hell. Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service, a grimy deposit of post-war gloom. An endless round of kit layout, square-bashing, shepherd's pie 'made with real ...Show more
Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 by David Lodge
$65.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The only child in a lower-middle-class family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his mother, David Lodge was four when World War II ...Show more
The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism a ...Show more
Varying Degrees of Success - A Memoir 1992-2010 by David Lodge
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain's best-loved and most versatile writers. With Varying Degrees of Success he completes a trilogy of memoirs which describe his life from birth in 1935 to the present day, and together form a remarkable autobiography. His aim is to desc ...Show more
Varying Degrees of Success A Memoir 1992-2020 by David Lodge
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain's best-loved and most versatile writers.With Varying Degrees of Success he completes a trilogy of memoirs which describe his life from birth in 1935 to the present day, and together form a remarkable autobiography. His aim is to descr ...Show more
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