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A First Place by David Malouf
$29.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday. Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions. Parental and grandparental romances, the sensual and bountiful beauty of Brisbane, the mysterious offering ...Show more
An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
"In the first century A. D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of out most distinguished novelists has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving work of fiction. Maroon ...Show more
Being There by David Malouf
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
Words, music, art and performance. The stuff of a satisfying life. After exploring the idea of home, where and what it is in A First Place, what does it mean to be a writer and where writing begins in The Writing Life, David Malouf moves on to words and music and art and performance in Being There. With ...Show more
Earth Hour by David Malouf
$29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon, David Malouf’s first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music once again shows us why he is one of Australia’s most enduring and respected writers. Earth Hour comes to rest at the perfect, still moment of “silence, following talk” ...Show more
Every Move You Make by David Malouf
$24.95 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: good
Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy - here are their stories, whole lives brought vividly into focus and so powerfully rooted in the landscape that you can almost feel the he ...Show more
Every Move You Make - SIGNED by David Malouf
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy - here are their stories, whole lives brought vividly into focus and so powerfully rooted in the landscape that you can almost feel the he ...Show more
Johnno by David Malouf
$22.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: good
David Malouf's first novel is an evocation of an Australian boyhood and early adulthood during the 1940s and 1950s. It recreates the sleazy tropical half-city that was wartime Brisbane and captures a generation locked in combat with the elusive Australian dream. By the author of "Antipodes".
On Experience (On Series) by David Malouf
$19.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: On Ser.
Australia's much loved author David Malouf presents a dazzling and illuminating personal essay on the power of imagination-and its effects on the life of a writer-in this first instalment of a collectible new series. Beautifully packaged as a pocket-sized keepsake, this treasurable approach salvages a p ...Show more
Ransom by David Malouf
$19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer's Iliad--one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclu ...Show more
Ransom - SIGNED by David Malouf
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
With learning worn lightly and in his own lyrical language, David Malouf retells Homer's Iliad. Focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men - Priam and Hector, Patroclus and Achilles, Priam and the cart-driver hired to retrieve Hector's body. Pride, grief, brutality, love and neighbourliness are explo ...Show more
Ransom: from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, An Imaginary Life and Johnno by David Malouf
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer's Iliad--one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus ...Show more
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
$12.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Winner of the 1996 International Impac Dublin Literary Award. In the 1840s, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. A picture of Australia at th ...Show more