The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017 'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde ...Show more
The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way - The Writing Life by Charles Bukowski; David Stephen Calonne (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profess ...Show more
On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activ ...Show more
Night Fishing by Vicki Hastrich
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A luminous and remarkable memoir of a singular life in art and nature.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted ...Show more
Creative Lives: Personal Papers of Australian Writers and Artists by Penelope Hanley
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary
These papers give fascinating insight into the lives of creative Australians. Among these are the stories of Henry Lawsonâ≢s sporadic imprisonment and alcoholism, and the shock discovery that Patrick White had not destroyed his papers, despite his insistence to the contrary. It is gener ...Show more
Kathleen O'Connor of Paris by Amanda Curtin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In 1906, Kathleen O'Connor left conservative Perth, where her famous father's life had ended in tragedy. She had her sights set on a career in thrilling, bohemian Paris. More than a century later, novelist Amanda Curtin faces her own questions, of life and of art, as she embarks on a journey in Kate's f ...Show more
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
From the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year la ...Show more
Books That Saved My Life by MICHAEL MCGIRR
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life's most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego.Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich us in all ma ...Show more
Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1 by TWAIN MARK
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary
The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published "Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1", the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete ...Show more
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life by Andy Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir. Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved and no time at all for reading. Or so he kept telling himself. But, no matter how ...Show more
Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of mor ...Show more