Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time by S. N. Behrman
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary
An exceptional biography of the world's most famous art dealer.
What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writers. One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and ...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
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