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An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
22.99 AUD
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
An Open Book by David Malouf
29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 1 Poetry
This is only David Malouf's third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia's greatest living poets, Malouf continues to meditate and reflect on themes of mortality and memory. The poems in An Open Bookare attentive and evocative, vital and beauti ...Show more
Being There by David Malouf
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Every Move You Make by David Malouf
39.95 AUD
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
Every Move You Make by David Malouf
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. I ...Show more
Harland's Half Acre by David Malouf
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A revised edition of this seminal Malouf novel, now with an Afterword from the author. Frank Harland's life is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers, and his desire to regain the Harlands' lost prosperity. Phil Vernon, growing up alone in the midst of a ...Show more
Johnno by David Malouf
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. Seen through the eyes of the narrator, he is a figure of legendary proportions. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of gothic Brisbane, or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. But what is the truth about Johnno? Semi-auto ...Show more
Making Art Public - Kaldor Public Art Projects, 1969-2019 by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Genevieve O'Callaghan (Editor); Mark Gowing (Designed by); Michael Landy; Nicholas Baume; Rebecca Coates; Ross Gibson; Ross Rudesch Harley; David Malouf; Emily Sullivan; Michael Brand (Foreword by); John Kaldor (Introduction by)
99.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Kaldor Art Projects 1969 - 2019
Shrouding one million square feet of Little Bay with fabric and rope, Wrapped Coast, 1969, by Christo and Jeanne-Claude was a groundbreaking piece of public art that propelled Sydney into the international art scene and left an indelible mark on Australian culture. On the fiftieth anniversary of Wrapped ...Show more
On Experience (On Series) by David Malouf
16.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | 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
19.99 AUD
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: from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, An Imaginary Life and Johnno by David Malouf
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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