The Shock of Recognition: The Books and Music That Have Inspired Me by Barry Jones
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'How much time do I have left? A hundred days? A thousand? If I knew I was going to die next week but could be taken to see The Marriage of Figaro tonight, would I go? Absolutely.'In a long and generously lived life, Barry Jones has been on an endless quest to share the extraordinary and the beautiful, ...Show more
Call of the Outback by Marianne van Velzen
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Category: Literary
Long before Robyn Davidson wrote Tracks, the extraordinary Ernestine Hill was renowned for her intrepid travels across Australia's vast outback.After the birth of her illegitimate son, Ernestine Hill abandoned her comfortable urban life as a journalist for a nomadic one, writing about this country's vas ...Show more
My Own Story: Suffragette by Emmeline Pankhurst
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Category: Literary
This work is one of the top biographies written by Emmeline Pankhurst. The closing paragraphs of this book were written in the late summer of 1914, when the armies of every great power in Europe were being mobilised for savage, unsparing, barbarous warfare-against one another, against small and unaggres ...Show more
Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow by Suzanne Falkiner
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Category: Literary
Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands - written in his early twenties after living on a remote Aboriginal mission - won the Miles Franklin Award for 1958. In later life, after publishing seven remarkable novels and several collections of poetry ...Show more
The Last Love Song - A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
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Category: Literary
Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and co-wrot ...Show more
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill
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Category: Literary
In this sequel to Costa Biography Award Winning Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill writes vivaciously, poignantly, and with extraordinary clarity about what really matters in the end, from the remarkable vantage point of her late nineties. Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no ...Show more
How About Never - Is Never Good for You? by Bob Mankoff
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Category: Literary
People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best ...Show more
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Literary
Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon - and writing. As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thou ...Show more
Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Jewish Lives
"Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different emotional upheavals, fired Proust's imagination and, albeit sometimes completely transformed, appeared in his work. The result is a very subtle, thought-provoking book."-Anka M ...Show more
How to Disappear: A Memoir for Misfits by Duncan Fallowell
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Category: Literary
WINNER OF THE 2012 PEN/ACKERLEY PRIZE A haunting memoir on the nature of belonging and the lure of escape. In this series of five brilliantly written and irrepressibly quirky travelogues, Duncan Fallowell sets out to odd corners of the world in pursuit of some extraordinary and improbable characters who ...Show more
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman
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Category: Literary
Charlotte Bront famously lived her life in a parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and creative siblings. Claire Harman's biography transcends these melancholy facts to reveal a woman for whom duty and piety gave way to rebellion and ambition. Drawing on letters unavailable to previ ...Show more
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson
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Category: Literary
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; th ...Show more