A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis
$35.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Born in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick left for New York City on a Greyhound bus in 1939 and quickly made a name for herself as a formidable member of the intellectual elite. Her eventful life included stretches of dire poverty, romantic escapades, and dustups with authors she eviscerated in The New York ...Show more
The Great White Bard: Shakespeare, Race and the Future of His Legacy by Farah Karim-Cooper
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 'Insightful, passionate, piled with facts and has a warm, infectious love for theatre and Shakespeare running through every chapter' Adrian Lester, CBE 'Dive in and your whole cultural landscape will b ...Show more
Late Light - Finding Home in the West Country by Michael Malay
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A love letter to the English countryside and some of the creatures which populate it, set against the backdrop of the author's own journey of discovery, as a new arrival to the UK This is a book about falling in love with vanishing things Late Light is the story of Michael Malay's own journey, an Indo ...Show more
Rilke: The Last Inward Man by Lesley Chamberlain
$28.00 AUD
Category: Literary
An incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical ...Show more
Orwell The New Life by D.J. Taylor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A fascinating exploration of George Orwell--and his body of work--by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to twenty-first-century readers. We find ourselves in an era when the moment is ripe for a reevaluation of the life and the works of one of the twentieth ...Show more
Radical: A Woman's Journey Through Wordscapes by Xiaolu Guo
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her ownThe world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your family and everything you have tried to call your own. Yet beauty may a ...Show more
Philip Larkin: Letters Home by Philip Larkin
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The last outstanding unpublished facet of Larkin's writing life: his correspondence 'home' to his father, mother and sister - now in paperback. Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help ...Show more
Exteriors by Annie Ernaux
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Taking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive.
A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have never managed to do so.’ In A Girl’s Story, her la ...Show more
Also a Poet - Frank o'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his ...Show more
Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987 by Helen Garner
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Diaries
Finally, Helen Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Recorded with frankness, humour and steel-sharp wit, these accounts of her everyday life provide an intimate insight into the work of one of Australia's greatest living writers. Ye ...Show more