The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment In the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in a cheap hotel in Wiesbaden, unable to leave until ...Show more
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Ambition and Betrayal (HB) by Laurence Leamer
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
'A glittering insight into the high society world of Capote's swans. The ruthless betrayal of the muse by the artist leaves you breathless.' Anna Pasternak 'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.' These women captivated and enchanted Cap ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final years John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Pr ...Show more
Catullus' Bedspread - The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet by Daisy Dunn
$15.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's wife and made it known to the world through his verse. This superb book gives a rare portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history through the eyes of one of Rome's ...Show more
Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula - An Illustrated Biography by Neil R. Storey
$75.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and lead to a new age in Gothic horror literature.Based on decades of painstaking research in libraries, museums, and university archives and privileged access t ...Show more
It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer by A A Milne
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Category: Literary Biographies
In his classic autobiography A. A. Milne, with his characteristic self-deprecating humour, recalls a blissfully happy childhood in the company of his brothers, and writes with touching affection about the father he adored.From Westminster School he won a scholarship to Cambridge University where he edit ...Show more
The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 2 : 1920-1924 by Virginia Woolf
$59.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
$17.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023** ** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023** 'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDY Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's career was ...Show more
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage. In her mid-thirties Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot--an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those ye ...Show more
Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths by Matthew Lamb
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
"My writing allows me flight from society through solitude while permitting me to rejoin society on some of my own terms through the trading of the finished work with the society. My imaginative narrative gives me relief from prevaility and strident ideologies by allowing me the heresy of decadence (as ...Show more
A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym
$26.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
The stunning autobiography of Barbara Pym, celebrated author of Quartet in Autumn, Jane and Prudence, and Excellent Women."I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym." RICHARD OSMAN"Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure." JILLY COOPER"Could ...Show more