Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
An insightful and moving biography detailing the extraordinary life of award-winning and bestselling author Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his friend, former assistant, and now head of the author's literary estate. At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terr ...Show more
How We Might Live At Home with Jane and William Morris by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today: but his wife Jane is too often relegated to a footnote, an artist's model given no history or personal ...Show more
Frank Moorhouse: A life by Catharine Lumby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters. Many writers fashion a career out of their writing. Some fashion brilliant careers. Very few, however, commit to their art in a manner that inflects every aspect of their own daily life. Frank Moorhouse was one of the rare writers ...Show more
Burning Man -The Ascent of D.H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Frances Wilson writes books that blow your hair back. She makes Lawrence live and breathe, annoy and captivate you ... she conjures the past with such clarity and wit and flair that it feels utterly present' Katherine Rundell 'A brilliantly unconventional biograp ...Show more
Martha Freud - A Biography by Katja Behling; R. D. V. Glasgow (Translator)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies | Series: Key Concepts Ser.
Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud and lived at his side for more than fifty years as wife and mother of six? How did she feel, coming from a traditional Jewish fami ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carre 1945-2020 by John le Carré, John le Carre
$26.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
A collection of letters from John le Carre, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood to his final yearsA Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carre's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness ...Show more
An A-Z of Jane Austen by Michael Greaney
$26.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words. Using a lively A-Z structure, Greaney provides fresh angles on familiar Aust ...Show more
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Following on from last year's Yellow Notebook, Helen Garner's much-anticipated second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the furore th ...Show more
On Tim Winton: Writers on Writers by Geraldine Brooks
$17.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
A gift of an essay that illuminates the literary talents of two of Australia's greatest writersIn this beautifully written personal essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks offers readers brilliant insights into the work of one of Australia's greatest living writers, Tim Winton. In the Wr ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Europe - Station to Station by Redmer Yska
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfield's Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfield's journals and letters, Redmer Yska traces her restless journey in Europe, seeking out the pla ...Show more
Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Searching for the Secret Riveris the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman - transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life - who later became a wealthy man and built his colonia ...Show more
Teller of the Unexpected - The Life of Roald Dahl: An Unofficial Biography by Matthew Dennison
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies