(Paperback)
By: Catharine Lumby
ISBN: 9781742372242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The definitive biography of one of Australia's best-known men of letters.
(Hardback)
By: Matthew Lamb
ISBN: 9780143786122
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Random House Australia
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(Hardback)
By: Patricia Grace
ISBN: 9780143775614
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
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(Hardback)
By: Mary Flannery
ISBN: 9781789148633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 13th May 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A chronicle of Geoffrey Chaucers life, accomplishments and roles outside poetry.
(Paperback)
By: Nick Triplow
ISBN: 9780857303417
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
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Getting Carter is a meticulously researched and riveting account of the career of a doomed genius. Long-time admirer Nick Triplow has fashioned a thorough, sympathetic and unsparing narrative. Required reading for noirists, this book will enthral and move anyone who finds irresistible the old cocktail of rags to riches to rags.
(Paperback)
By: Barbara Anderson
ISBN: 9780864736024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Broken down into three distinct parts, the book details Anderson's childhood, along with the years she spent primarily as a mother and the wife of a prominent naval officer, before concluding with her return to school and a renewal of the desire to write late in life.
(Paperback)
By: Barbara Anderson
ISBN: 9780864735904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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This classic autobiography is a moving life story that reveals great insight into the making of a major writer. Broken down into three parts, the book details Anderson's childhood, the years she spent primarily as a mother and the wife of a naval officer, before concluding with her return to school and a renewal of the desire to write.
(Paperback)
By: Josie McSkimming
ISBN: 9780702268724
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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(Paperback)
By: Lara Vetter
ISBN: 9781789147599
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The fascinating life and work of the groundbreaking, free-spirited modernist poet H.D.
(Hardback)
By: Ruvani Ranasinha
ISBN: 9781526147394
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first biography of Hanif Kureishi, based on his newly available personal archive.
(Hardback)
By: Murray Bail
ISBN: 9781922330949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Text Publishing
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Fragments and reflections from the life of a revered Australian writer
(Paperback)
By: Bastian Fox Phelan
ISBN: 9781925818987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co
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(Paperback)
By: Sarah Bakewell
ISBN: 9780099485155
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The Essays was an instant bestseller, and over four hundred years later, readers still come to him in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment - and in search of themselves.
(Hardback)
By: Clare Finney
ISBN: 9780711266766
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2023
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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Hungry Heart is a moving memoir exploring the manifold ways in which food has defined both the life of author Clare Finney and also how it becomes interwined in almost every modern day relationship, including that with ourselves.
(Paperback, New Edition)
By: Clare Finney
ISBN: 9780711266773
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 13th June 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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Renowned food writer Claire Finney reveals some of her all-time favourite recipes in Hungry Heart. Includes moving stories about foods place in her life and wider society.
(Hardback)
By: Lindsey Hilsum
ISBN: 9781784745349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Miranda Seymour
ISBN: 9780008353254
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Paperback)
By: Nicholas Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781787302426
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Anatol Kagan
ISBN: 9780648176404
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Brandl & Schlesinger Pty Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Mark Bostridge
ISBN: 9781399416023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adle Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love - and the writer who chased after her a century later.
(Paperback)
By: Sylvia Martin
ISBN: 9781742588254
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: UWA Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Thomas Clerc
ISBN: 9781250214904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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"Show me where you live and I'll tell you who you are": this sly commentary on materialism finds drama in the domestic and dark humor in every doomed attempt to express ourselves through what we own.
(Paperback)
By: Eleanor Hogan
ISBN: 9781742236599
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Both famous in their day, Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Eleanor Hogan reflects on the lives and work of these indefatigable women. With sensitivity and insight, she wonders whether their work speaks to us today and what their legacies as fearless female outliers might be.
(Paperback)
By: Tim Winton
ISBN: 9780143574095
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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