Frank Moorhouse: A life by Catharine Lumby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...Show more
Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia by Marie Darrieussecq
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"I lost sleep. I retraced my steps but sleep wasn’t following me. It had broken free and I was wandering through the night without it. The world is divided into those who can sleep and those who can’t. What is it like to live with chronic insomnia? For Marie Darrieussecq, not sleeping began after the bi ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, tea ...Show more
Cocktails with George and Martha - Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Philip Gefter
$60.00 AUD
Category: Literary
An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbreaking film it became, and how two iconic stars changed the image of marriage forever. From its debut in 1962, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a wild success and a cultural lightning rod. ...Show more
Alphabetical Diaries (US HB) by Sheila Heti
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning author of Pure Colour, in the vein of Joe Brainard and Edouard Leve.
There Is No Blue by Martha Baillie
$37.00 AUD
Category: Literary
THE GLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023Martha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's passing, her father's life, and her sister's suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time. Three essays, three deaths. ...Show more
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...Show more
A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
With insight, humour, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and inc ...Show more
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Steven Powell
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"As gripping and twisted as a James Ellroy novel." - Ian Rankin" A masterpiece of literary biography." - David Peace The first critical biography of a titan of American crime fiction. Love Me Fierce In Danger is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures in American li ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
$26.00 AUD
Category: Literary
From the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, ad ...Show more
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted ...Show more