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One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Helen Garner's second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the bombshell that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in l ...Show more
Encounters and Destinies - A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig; Will Stone (Translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A new collection of essays by Stefan Zweig: tributes to the great artists and thinkers of the Europe of his day Stefan Zweig was one of the twentieth century's greatest authors and a tireless champion of freedom, tolerance and friendship across borders. Encounters and Destinies collects his most impassi ...Show more
The Rome Plague Diaries - Lockdown Life in the Eternal City by Matthew Kneale
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rome: A History in Seven Sackings.
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write - An Autobiography Through Essays by Claire Messud
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal essays - reflections on a childhood divided between cultures, and between dueling models of womanhood. It is here, in these early years, that we see the seeds of Messud's inquiry into the ...Show more
Literary Lion Tamers: Book Editors Who Made Publishing History by Craig Munro
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'Writers, their friends, enemies, editors, and publishers began to materialise out of the library's archive boxes, and I found myself setting off in search of these elusive, eccentric, and often quarrelsome characters.' In this unique and entertaining blend of memoir, biography, and literary detective w ...Show more
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. 'When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating.' As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more
Leonard Cohen: Untold Stories - The Early Years by Michael Posner
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories Ser.
The extraordinary life of one of the world's greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best. Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon--there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, entertaining and insp ...Show more
Oh Happy Day by Carmen Callil
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Carmen Callil explores her roots in a book that is a miracle of research and whose writing is fuelled by righteous anger - a story of Empire, migration and the poverty and injustice of nineteenth-century England In this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginn ...Show more
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
$65.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, ...Show more
Machiavelli - The Art of Teaching People What to Fear by Patrick Boucheron
$28.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A sharp, witty biography that explores how Machiavelli's thought is key to understanding the political crisis of his time - and that of our own. We turn to Machiavelli at every tumultuous period in history - he is the one who knows how to philsophise in dark times. In fact, since his death in 1527, we h ...Show more
Shakespearean: Life According to Shakespeare by Robert McCrum
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Why do we return to Shakespeare time and again?When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became h ...Show more
Tom Stoppard - A Life by Hermione Lee
$60.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A perfect match of writer and subject: one of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights--with his cooperation and access to a trove of hitherto unseen material. Tom Stoppard is a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness an ...Show more