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Only Happiness Here: In Search of Elizabeth Von Arnim by Gabrielle Carey
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'When I discovered Elizabeth von Arnim, I found, for the first time, a writer who wrote about being happy.' Elizabeth von Arnim is one of the early 20th century's most famous - and forgotten -authors. Born in Sydney in the mid 1800s, she went on to write many internationally bestselling novels, marry a ...Show more
Russian Roulette - The Life and Times of Graham Greene by Richard Greene
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A restless traveller, he was a witness to many of the key events of modern history - including the origins of the Vi ...Show more
A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux; Karen Smelt (Translator)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted author of The Years. In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the night fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another's will and desire. In the summer of 1958, eighteen-year-old Ern ...Show more
Insomniac City : New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me by Bill Hayes
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'A beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life ... Exquisitely wrought, heartrending and joyous' Joyce Carol OatesBill Hayes came to New York in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Fr ...Show more
Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him - not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well - on an island that was "not his kind ...Show more
Leeward - A Memoir by Geoffrey Lehmann
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'For my first ten years I grew up in Lavender Bay with the smell of salt water, in houses facing the grey curved eye of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. There was a distant rumble, like thunder, when trains went across.' This is a lyrical and honest memoir of a poet's life in Sydney. From Lavender Bay to Lind ...Show more
Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra (1955 - 1964) by Paul Genoni; Tanya Dalziell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Biography Ser.
WINNER OF 2019 NONFICTION PM'S PRIZE Half the Perfect World is a social and literary account of the expatriate artist community on the Greek island of Hydra from 1955 to 1964, and is richly illustrated by LIFE Magazine eye-witness photographer James Burke. Fostered by celebrated Australian literary cou ...Show more
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Stella Prize 2019 Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon. Telling the story of a splintered family, a mother who is unlike any other, and her daughters who have no choice but to come to the rescue, The Erratics has the tightly compressed energy of an explosive device. ...Show more
The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sybille Bedford
$13.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The first full-scale literary trial in Britain's history - re-counted by the ever-charming and inimitable Sybille Bedford.
Darling Pol - Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann 1944-1967 by Mary Wesley; Patrick Marnham (Editor)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'They met by chance in the Palm Court of the Ritz Hotel on the evening of 26 October 1944. By the time she eventually caught the train back to Penzance two days later they had fallen in love and Eric had declared that he was determined to marry her...' Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham be ...Show more
In My Mind's Eye - A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Celebrated as the "greatest descriptive writer of her time" (Rebecca West), Jan Morris has been dazzling readers since she burst on the scene with her on-the-spot reportage of the first ascent of Everest in 1953. Now, the beloved ninety-two-year-old, author of classics such as Venice and Trieste, embark ...Show more
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox- potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the netsuke, they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined The ...Show more