Brooklyn - A Personal Memoir with the Lost Photographs of David Attie by David Attie
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In 2002, The Little Bookroom published Truman Capote's homage to Brooklyn, A House in the Heights. In 2014, the original photographs commissioned to illustrate the 1959 piece were discovered by the photographer's son. Capote's essay was the first magazine assignment for David Attie and he shot many of t ...Show more
The Writing Life by David Malouf
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Who else, but a writer, is really able to interrogate the work of other writers? From Christina Stead, Les Murray and Patrick White to Proust, Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte, David Malouf reads and examines the work of writers who have challenged, inspired and entertained us for generations. He also e ...Show more
The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe Between the Wars by Joseph Roth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold Antiqua letters in which its banal name is spelled out shining across the roofs of the gently banked houses are in my eye metal flags, metal bannerets that instead of fluttering shine out th ...Show more
Ted Hughes - the Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE A magisterial life of Ted Hughes - identified recently as the only English poet since the First World War with a claim to true greatness and one of Britain's most important writers - to be published on National Poetry Day by prize-winning biographer Jonathan ...Show more
Under Cover: Adventures in the Art of Editing by Craig Munro
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A candid, insightful memoir by one of Australia's foremost editors, who worked with many of the country's finest writers. It started in 1971, when Craig Munro was a young editor at the University of Queensland Press, with just a typewriter and a thumbed copy of the Chicago Manual of Style on his desk. O ...Show more
Penguin and the Lane Brothers: The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution by Stuart Kells
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A ground-breaking counter-history of Penguin Books - both amusing and and with a strong new Australian aspect. How did the three Lane brothers enter publishing and build Penguin into a global powerhouse? As this new book shows, their innovation and the creative opposition among them would prove to be t ...Show more
Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini, Ph.D.
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary
An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's biography probes behind the glittering surface of Vidal's colourful ...Show more
The Man with the Golden Typewriter: The Bond Letters by Fergus Fleming
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, 'My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold.' He had bought the golden typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel, Casino Royale. It marked ...Show more
Burning the Days: Recollection (US ed) by James Salter
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In this brilliant book of recollection, one of America's finest writers recreates people, places, and events spanning some 50 years, bringing to life an entire era through one man's sensibility. Scenes of love and desire, friendship, ambition, life in foreign cities and New York, are unforgettably rende ...Show more
A House in St John's Wood - In Search of My Parents by Matthew Spender
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A intimate portrait of Stephen Spender's extraordinary life written by his son, Matthew Spender, with new insights drawn from personal recollections and unpublished archives. Stephen Spender's life was a vivid prism on the twentieth century. Having met Auden and Isherwood at Oxford, he joined the early ...Show more
Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land by Robert Crawford
$70.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century's most important poet from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the publication of his most famous poem, The Wa ...Show more
Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal by Al Alvarez
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best part of his life Al Alvarez - poet, critic, novelist, rock-climber and poker player - has swum in them almost daily. An athlete in his youth, Alvarez, now in his eighties, chron ...Show more