Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley
$26.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
"Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity."--Am ...Show more
Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences by Bev Vincent
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Celebrate the King of Horror's 75th birthday with Stephen King, which explores the connections between Stephen King's life and his body of work. Explore the evolution and influences of Stephen King's body of work over his nearly 50-year career, and discover how the themes of his writing reflect the chan ...Show more
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert by Brian Herbert
$36.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of generations of readers. It is one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, has won awards, sold millions of copies around the world and spawned ...Show more
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
The Jane Austen Remedy: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a book can change a life by Ruth Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re-reading each of Jane Austen's novels. 'Ruth Wilson . . . emerges from this discreet, wry memoir as quietly defiant as any heroine from the Jane Austen novels she so admires.' THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD A ...Show more
Agatha Christie - An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' -- her own autobiography, with new exclusive CD containing newly discovered priceless recordings from more than 40 years ago of Agatha dictating excerpts about her life as a writer. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Chris ...Show more
The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton
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Category: Literary Biographies
'Being a copper?s son, I?ve always got one eye out for trouble. I can?t help it. But I don?t go looking for it anymore.?In Tim Winton?s fiction, chaos shapes the lives of his characters. So too Winton?s own life. The extraordinarily powerful true stories that make up The Boy Behind the Curtaintake us be ...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
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
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
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
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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