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A First Place by David Malouf
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
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
Being There by David Malouf
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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
Being There by David Malouf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
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
David Malouf: The Complete Stories by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
David Malouf's imagination inhabits shocking violence, quick humour, appealing warmth and harsh cruelty with equal intensity. This is a comprehensive compilation of David's shorter work. Stories are set in the hardscrabble Australian interior and coastal enclaves; others are set in Australia's past.
Earth Hour by David Malouf
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
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
Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
"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
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
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 ONE BOOK ONE BRISBANE EDITION by MALOUF DAVID
$23.95 AUD
Category: General
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?
Johnno by David Malouf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Ransom by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | 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: General
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
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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