BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found by Christie Tate
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
* “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” —Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette * From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Pick, a poignant, funny, and emotionally satisfying memoir about Christie Tate’s lifelong struggle to s ...Show more
Alphabetical Diaries (US HB) by Sheila Heti
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning author of Pure Colour, in the vein of Joe Brainard and Edouard Leve.
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a s ...Show more
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
$37.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'Your friends would probably describe me as nice. But guess what? I can't stand your friends. I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm highly manipulative. I don't care what other people think. I'm capable of almost anything.' Sociopath: A Memoir is at once a mesmerizing tale of a life lived on the edge of the law ...Show more
The Upstairs Delicatessen by Dwight Garner
$27.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal classic. Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book you're holding is ...Show more
Stay True: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir by Hua Hsu
$36.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, TIME, Rolling Stone 'One of the best nonfiction books about friendship ever, right up there with Patti Smith’s Just Kids’ – The Atlantic When Hua Hsu first meets Ken in a Berkele ...Show more
A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis
$35.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Born in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick left for New York City on a Greyhound bus in 1939 and quickly made a name for herself as a formidable member of the intellectual elite. Her eventful life included stretches of dire poverty, romantic escapades, and dustups with authors she eviscerated in The New York ...Show more
The Great White Bard: Shakespeare, Race and the Future of His Legacy by Farah Karim-Cooper
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 'Insightful, passionate, piled with facts and has a warm, infectious love for theatre and Shakespeare running through every chapter' Adrian Lester, CBE 'Dive in and your whole cultural landscape will b ...Show more
Late Light - Finding Home in the West Country by Michael Malay
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A love letter to the English countryside and some of the creatures which populate it, set against the backdrop of the author's own journey of discovery, as a new arrival to the UK This is a book about falling in love with vanishing things Late Light is the story of Michael Malay's own journey, an Indo ...Show more
Rilke: The Last Inward Man by Lesley Chamberlain
$28.00 AUD
Category: Literary
An incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical ...Show more
Orwell The New Life by D.J. Taylor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A fascinating exploration of George Orwell--and his body of work--by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to twenty-first-century readers. We find ourselves in an era when the moment is ripe for a reevaluation of the life and the works of one of the twentieth ...Show more
Philip Larkin: Letters Home by Philip Larkin
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The last outstanding unpublished facet of Larkin's writing life: his correspondence 'home' to his father, mother and sister - now in paperback. Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help ...Show more