Voltaire by Ian Davidson
$60.00 AUD
Category: Literary
We think of Voltaire as the epitome of the Enlightenment; in his own time he was also the most famous and controversial figure in Europe. This dazzling new biography celebrates his extraordinary life through the thousands of letters he wrote to have survived. Davidson tells the whole, rich story of Volt ...Show more
Iris Murdoch : A Writer at War - Letters and diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-45 by Iris Murdoch (editor Peter Conradi)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary
The never before published diaries and letters of Iris Murdoch, during WWII. Includes correspondence with the poet Frank Thomson and the diplomat David Hicks. They shed a new light on the life and mind of a brilliant young writer. Edited by Peter Conradi, Murdoch's friend and the author of her biography ...Show more
Charles Dickens by Michael Slater
$52.50 AUD
Category: Literary
This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless ...Show more
The Other Elizabeth Taylor by Nicola Beauman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Persephone Classics
This is the first biography of one of the outstanding English writers of the last century. Betty Coles became Elizabeth Taylor upon her marriage in 1936 when she was 23. Her first novel appeared in the same year, 1945, as the actress Elizabeth Taylor was appearing in National Velvet and began her asce ...Show more
The Girl on the Landing by Paul Torday
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Michael is dressing for dinner at a friend's country house in Ireland. As he descends the staircase, he spots a small painting of a landing with an old linen press and the white marble statue of an angel. In the background is a woman clad in a dark green dress. During dinner, Michael comments on the pai ...Show more
Outside of a Dog - A Bibliomemoir by Rick Gekoski
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literary
This is the fascinating and whimsical account of the twenty-five books that have influenced the life of bibliophile Rick Gekoski. Drawing from the fields of literature, psychology and philosophy and including books by Descartes, Dahl, and Dr. Seuss, Rick Gekoski trains the same ironic and analytic eye o ...Show more
Casanova by Ian Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Giacomo Casanova was one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of his or any age. Braggart or perfect lover? Conman or genius? He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years before the French ...Show more
My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life by Witold Rybczynski
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary
AWARD-WINNING AND CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED WRITER WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI DELIVERS A REVELATORY COLLECTION OF LINKED AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS -- PART MEMOIR, PART FAMILY HISTORY -- ABOUT THE UPHEAVALS OF EUROPEAN LIVES DURING WORLD WAR II, HIS OWN INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT, AND THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGES OF ART, MUSIC ...Show more
A Dangerous Liaison : A biography of Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir by Carole Seymour-Jones
$27.95 AUD
Category: Literary
A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate and sometimes painful story of how two brilliant free-thinkers - and rivals - came to share a relationship that was to last over fifty years. Moving from the corridors of the Sorbonne and the chestnut groves in the Limousin, to the cafes of Paris' Left B ...Show more
Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Literary
'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him'. Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. T ...Show more
Poe : A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor of the "Literary Messenger" he was influential among critics and writers of the Ameri ...Show more
The Last Leopard by David Gilmour
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literary
David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the great novels of the twentieth century. A book whose imagery, once tasted, haunts the reader forever. "The Leopard" describes the golden era of the nineteenth-century Sicily in all its s ...Show more