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Johnno by David Malouf
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. Seen through the eyes of the narrator, he is a figure of legendary proportions. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of gothic Brisbane, or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. But what is the truth about Johnno? Semi-auto ...Show more
Making Art Public - Kaldor Public Art Projects, 1969-2019 by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Genevieve O'Callaghan (Editor); Mark Gowing (Designed by); Michael Landy; Nicholas Baume; Rebecca Coates; Ross Gibson; Ross Rudesch Harley; David Malouf; Emily Sullivan; Michael Brand (Foreword by); John Kaldor (Introduction by)
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Kaldor Art Projects 1969 - 2019
Shrouding one million square feet of Little Bay with fabric and rope, Wrapped Coast, 1969, by Christo and Jeanne-Claude was a groundbreaking piece of public art that propelled Sydney into the international art scene and left an indelible mark on Australian culture. On the fiftieth anniversary of Wrapped ...Show more
On Experience by DAVID MALOUF
$19.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
In this beautifully written, eloquent piece by one of Australia's most celebrated novelists, David Malouf asks what is experience and how do we come by it? He explores the connections between writing and his imagination and offers wonderful insights into his own experiences of the writer's life.
On Experience (On Series) by David Malouf
$17.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: On Ser.
Australia's much loved author David Malouf presents a dazzling and illuminating personal essay on the power of imagination-and its effects on the life of a writer-in this first instalment of a collectible new series. Beautifully packaged as a pocket-sized keepsake, this treasurable approach salvages a p ...Show more
Ransom by David Malouf
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer's Iliad--one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclu ...Show more
Ransom by David Malouf
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
With learning worn lightly and in his own lyrical language, David Malouf retells Homer's Iliad. Focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men - Priam and Hector, Patroclus and Achilles, Priam and the cart-driver hired to retrieve Hector's body. Pride, grief, brutality, love and neighbourliness are explo ...Show more
Ransom: from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, An Imaginary Life and Johnno by David Malouf
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer's Iliad--one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus ...Show more
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
$15.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Winner of the 1996 International Impac Dublin Literary Award. In the 1840s, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. A picture of Australia at th ...Show more
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focused on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals. It is essentially the story of a boy caught between both worlds. David Malouf, himself an Australian, is the prize-winning author of "The Great World".
Revolving Days by David Malouf
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
An up-to-the-minute selection by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. Malouf's best poems, with their grace and intelligence, remain among the finest examples of the Australian lyric. An essential compendium for all lovers of literature.
The Complete Stories by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Thirty-one epic stories from Australia's award-winning author David Malouf. David Malouf's imagination inhabits shocking violence, quick humor, appealing warmth and harsh cruelty with equal intensity. He shares tales of bookish boys, taciturn men and intimate stories of men and women looking for someth ...Show more
The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1827, in a hut on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. Carney, an illiterate Irishman, is to be hanged at dawn. Adair, also Irish, has been sent to supervise the hanging. The novel moves between Australia and Ireland to explore questions of nature and justice.