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On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers by Michelle de Kretser
$17.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards, away from Australia. Her work spoke of places from which I had come and places to which I longed to go ... It was reading as an affair of revelations and gifts. It fell like rain, greening my vision of Australian literature as a stony ...Show more
Portraits by Sophie Cunningham, W. H. Chong, Michelle de Kretser, John Wolseley
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art Craft Photography
From award-winning book designer and artist W. H. Chong, Portraits is a collection of 300 drawings of artists, writers and musicians he has sketched over the last decade. Portraits is a love letter to our culture makers, a sparkling collection of more than 300 drawings of artists, writers, musicians, t ...Show more
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book."--A.S. Byatt, Guardian Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe--expl ...Show more
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Scary Monsters is an affecting, profound and darkly funny exploration into racism, misogyny and ageism. 'When my family emigrated it felt as if we'd been stood on our heads.' Michelle de Kretser's electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upsi ...Show more
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Scary Monsters is an affecting, profound and darkly funny exploration into racism, misogyny and ageism.
Springtime by Michelle de Kretser
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
'Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a creamy white. There came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stood still.'..W ...Show more
Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
A rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story from the two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author.
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize "For a novel concerned with dislocation, there's a lot of grounding humor in The Life to Come. Most of it comes at the expense of Pippa and her ilk, but de Kretser's observations are so spot on, you'll forgive her eve ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, and shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize, The Life to Come is a powerful novel that effortlessly blends sharp satire of the literary world with deeply compassionate portraits of lonely people and their strategies for survival.
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 1986, and 'beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists, activists, students-and Kit. He claims to be in a 'deconstructed' relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, her work on th ...Show more
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