Letters to Poseidon by Cees Nooteboom
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
I had been looking for someone to write to for a long time, but how does a man write letters to a god? From his Mediterranean garden on the island of Menorca, Cees Nooteboom writes to the trident-wielding deity, Poseidon, initiating a dialogue not only with the past, as Alberto Manguel observes in his P ...Show more
The Brontes: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The Bronte story has been written many times but rarely as compellingly as by the Brontes themselves. In this selection of letters and autobiographical fragments we hear the authentic voices of the three novelist sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, their brother, Branwell, and their father, the Reverend ...Show more
Tru and Nelle (HB) by Greg Neri
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Long before they became famous writers, Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood") and Harper Lee ("To Kill a Mockingbird") were childhood friends in Monroeville, Alabama. This fictionalized account of their time together opens at the beginning of the Great Depression, when Tru is seven and Nelle is six. They love ...Show more
Beautiful Shadow: A life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Bloomsbury Lives of Women
Patricia Highsmith - author of "Strangers On A Train" and "The Talented Mr Ripley" - had more than her fair share of secrets. During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to answer questions about her private life. Yet after her death in February 1995, H ...Show more
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Evelyn Waugh was described by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil. Waugh's literary reputation has continued to rise since Greene's assessment in 1966. Fifty years on from his death, Philip Eade takes a fresh look ...Show more
Their Promised Land My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school at Uppingham and Win was taking music lessons in Hampstead. They were married for more than sixty years, ...Show more
Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 by Volker Weidermann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of f ...Show more
Have You Been Good?: A Memoir by Vanessa Nicolson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A powerful memoir from the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, chronicling holidays at Sissinghurst, reckless youth, and the tragic loss of her 19-year-old daughter RosaVanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious ...Show more
Being There by David Malouf
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Words, music, art and performance. The stuff of a satisfying life. After exploring the idea of home, where and what it is in A First Place, what does it mean to be a writer and where writing begins in The Writing Life, David Malouf moves on to words and music and art and performance in Being There. With ...Show more
Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"Peeling the Onion" is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece, "The Tin Drum", in Paris. Grass' parents ran a corner shop, but his mother, whom he adored, encouraged him t ...Show more
An Unsentimental Bloke: The life and work of C.J. Dennis by Philip Butterss
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literary
The Sentimental Bloke and Doreen are famous characters in Australian popular culture, but their creator deserves to be better known. C.J. Dennis transformed the larrikin from a street thug into a respectable image of Australian identity, and helped shape the Anzac legend. Many people regarded Dennis him ...Show more