Correspondence by Paul Celan
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: The German List
Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post - World War II German literature's most important noveli ...Show more
Dearest Father by Franz Kafka
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Oneworld Classics S.
Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which wr ...Show more
The Fellowship by Philip Zaleski
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary
C.S. Lewis is the twentieth century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the lnklings, which met weekly in Lewis's Oxford rooms and a nearby pub. They read aloud from works ...Show more
Death and Mr Pickwick by Stephen Jarvis
$62.99 AUD
Category: Literary
An extraordinary novel about an extraordinary novel -- Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. On March 31, 1836 the publishers Chapman & Hall launched the first issue of a new monthly periodical entitled The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Conceived and created by the artist Robert Seymour, ...Show more
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957-1965: Volume 3 by Samuel Beckett
$80.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: The Letters of Samuel Beckett
This third volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett focuses on the years when Beckett is striving to find a balance between the demands put upon him by his growing international fame, and his need for the peace and silence from which new writing might emerge. This is the period in which Beckett launches ...Show more
Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret
$28.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a "genius" (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in ...Show more
Vanessa Bell: Portrait of a Bloomsbury Artist by Frances Spalding
$37.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Vanessa Bell is central to the history of the Bloomsbury Group, yet until this authorised biography was written, she largely remained a silent and inscrutable figure. Tantalising glimpses of her life appeared mainly in her sister, Virginia Woolf's, letters, diaries and biography. Frances Spalding here ...Show more
Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. Vita Sackville-West is perhaps best known as the creator, with her husband Harold Nicol ...Show more
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Writers on Writers
In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences-the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how h ...Show more
Life, Love and the Archers: Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose by Wendy Cope
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the light-hearted to the serious, taken from a lifeti ...Show more
Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather by Karen Lamb
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather is the long-overdue biography of Australian author Thea Astley (1925 - 2004). Over a fifty-year writing career, Astley published more than a dozen novels and short story collections, including The Acolyte, The Slow Natives and, finally, Drylands in 1999. She was th ...Show more
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Gary Shteyngart's parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, or at least an accountant, something their distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and Russian, his mother created the term Failurchka - 'Little Failure' - which she applied to her son. With love. Mostly. A candid and p ...Show more