Things I Don't Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1 by Deborah Levy
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Category: Literary | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory and shape it to her need. Itis a work of ...Show more
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing by Debra Adelaide
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
In a book whose charm and erudition recalls 84 Charing Cross Road or Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead, one of our most prolific and respected authors, Debra Adelaide, shares a joyous and plaintive glimpse into a reading and writing life.This mercurial work is much more than memoir, much more ...Show more
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie the Pooh by Ann Thwaite
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's acclaimed biography of A. A. Milne, one of the most successful English writers ever, and the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, and of Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and Christopher Robin. But the fictional Christopher ...Show more
Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster . . .' Patrick WhitePatrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogr ...Show more
Between Gods by Alison Pick
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Category: Literary
Alison Pick was born in the 1970s and raised in a loving, supportive family, but as a teenager she made a discovery that changed her understanding of who she was for ever. She learned that her Pick grandparents, who had escaped from Czechoslovakia during WWII, were Jewish, and that most of this side of ...Show more
The Trip to Echo Spring - On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
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Category: Literary
Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award.Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. ...Show more
A Paris Year by Janice MacLeod
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year chronicles, day by day, one woman's French sojourn in the world's most beautiful city. Beginning on her first day in Paris, Janice MacLeod, the author of the best-selling book, Paris Letters, began a journa ...Show more
Why I Write by George Orwell
$9.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in today's era of spin.
Updike by Adam Begley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike--a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work.In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portr ...Show more
On John Marsden: Writers on Writers by Alice Pung
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Category: Literary
An original and moving look by award-winning writer Alice Pung at one of her biggest influences - the much-loved and hugely successful writer John Marsden.In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and crisp, these ...Show more
Heroes by Stephen Fry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: good
Mortals and Monsters Quests and Adventures Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fl ...Show more
The Last Love Song - A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and co-wrot ...Show more