Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies at her heels. Dying at the age of only 34, she became posthumously one of the most influential writers of the last century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the ...Show more
A Jane Austen Christmas - Regency Christmas Traditions by Maria Grace
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies | Series: A\Jane Austen Regency Life Ser.
Many Christmas traditions and images of 'old fashioned' holidays are based on Victorian celebrations. Going back just a little further, to the beginning of the 19th century, the holiday Jane Austen knew would have looked distinctly odd to modern sensibilities. How odd? Families rarely decorated Christma ...Show more
Bryce Courtenay: Storyteller by Christine Courtenay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
The long-awaited memoir of the late Bryce Courtenay - Australia's bestselling author - as told by his wife, Christine Courtenay.Bryce Courtenay was a born storyteller. The success of his extraordinary debut The Power of One made publishing history, and in the years that followed Bryce continued to enter ...Show more
The Long and Winding Road by Lesley Pearse
$36.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Lesley Pearse didn't publish her first novel until she was 48. Now she has sold over ten million books around the world and is a constant presence on the bestseller chart.A writer of heart-stopping stories, Lesley's books are filled with heroines struggling to make it in a difficult world.Yet this descr ...Show more
Insomniac City by Bill Hayes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
'A beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life ... Exquisitely wrought, heartrending and joyous' Joyce Carol OatesBill Hayes came to New York in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Fr ...Show more
Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade, has to be Matthew Sturgis's Oscar' TLS Books of the Year A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARNOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019 'Simply the best modern biography of Wilde... A terrific achievement' Evening Standard 'Page-turning... Vivid and desperat ...Show more
Dickens and Prince - A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
When Prince's 1987 record Sign o' the Times was rereleased in 2020, the album came with dozens of songs that weren't on the original. In awe, Nick Hornby began to wonder, Who else ever produced this much? He soon found his answer in Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, who died more than a hundred years ...Show more
Larry McMurtry by Tracy Daugherty
$59.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
<b>A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Tracy Daugherty.</b> In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chr ...Show more
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
$42.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, t ...Show more
Dostoyevsky: a Life of Contradiction by Gunn Judith
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's life and literature are still potent today, nearly two hundred years after his birth. He is credited with writing some of the greatest novels of all time; a compatriot of Tolstoy and a contemporary of Dickens, his struggle for recognition was a long and difficult journey. He suffere ...Show more
Watsonia: A Writing Life by Don Watson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
No other writer has journeyed further into the soul of Australia and returned to tell the tale... Watsonia collects the fruits of a writing life. It covers everything from Australian bush humour to America gone berserk; from Don Bradman to Oscar Wilde; from Animal Farmto the Australian parliament. Wher ...Show more