Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1 ...Show more
Quicksands by Sybille Bedford
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
- Her first new book in over 10 years. Bedford is back with what will surely (she says) be her last, and the moving culmination of a story that began in 1956 (when Legacy pubbed in the UK).- Acclaim, acclaim, and acclaim. Sybille Bedford is, simply put, one of the finest writers of her generation. None ...Show more
A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967 by Rachel Cohen
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Category: Literary
John Betjeman : The Bonus of Laughter by Bevis Hillier
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary
John Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the most remarkable, most widely read and best loved poet of the twentieth century. Bevis Hillier's 'awe-inspiring' and 'enthralling' biography fascinatingly recalls Betjeman's extraordinary character. In this final volume, Betjeman is at ...Show more
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline, ' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity's inf ...Show more
Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson
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Category: Literary
The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel. It was one of the happiest and strangest marriages there has ever been. Bot ...Show more
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
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Category: Literary
In Michael Ondaatje's beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and fa ...Show more
The Life of Graham Greene Volume 2 : 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Volume 2 covers the most prolific period of Graham Greene's life.
Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay
$16.95 AUD
Category: Literary
'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats. In "Young Romantics", Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary, introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence of an astonishingly youthful circle. The fiery, generous spirit of Leigh Hunt, radical journalist ...Show more
The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White and the Birth of a Children's Classic by Michael Sims
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim- 'Write what you know.' Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Pain ...Show more
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary
For Yeats, Dante Alighieri was 'the chief imagination of Christendom'; for Eliot he was of supreme importance, both as a poet and philosopher; Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem 'Ulysses' on lines from the Inferno and Byron chastised an 'Ungrateful Fl ...Show more