David Malouf
The Happy Life: The Search For Contentment In The Modern World
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In this elegant treatise, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?
With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 41: The Good Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
$0.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?
With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways ... Buy or find out more →
Ransom
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
David Malouf shines new light on Homer’s ILIAD, adding twists and reflections, as well as flashes of earthy humour, to surprise and enchant.
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In this exquisite gem of a novel, Achilles is maddened by... Buy or find out more →
Revolving Days: Selected Poems
$26.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
From the groundbreaking Bicycle and Other Poems to the best-selling Typewriter Music, Revolving Days is a resplendent, up-to-the-minute selection by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. Malouf's best poems, with ... Buy or find out more →
Every Move You Make
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Johnno
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Dante and Johnno are unlikely childhood friends, growing up in the bustle of steamy, wartime Brisbane. Later, as teenagers, they learn about love and life amidst the city's pubs and public libraries, backyards and brothe... Buy or find out more →
Remembering Babylon
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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 pictu... Buy or find out more →
Antipodes
$22.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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Child's Play
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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The Complete Stories
$45.00$14.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
David Malouf's imagination inhabits shocking violence, quick humor, appealing warmth and harsh cruelty with equal intensity. He shares tales of bookish boys, taciturn men and intimate stories of men and women looking for... Buy or find out more →
An Imaginary Life
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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 distinguish... Buy or find out more →
Fly Away Peter
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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 r... Buy or find out more →
Dream Stuff
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI Escort, yet still hoping for the return of a father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late... Buy or find out more →
Harland's Half Acre
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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Johnno
$23.95 – Hardcover book / Univ Queensland Pr
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Typewriter Music
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Univ Queensland Pr
I came to David Malouf ’s poetry though his novels. After reading An Imaginary Life as a very young man I jumped on my bike and headed for the local library determined to take home every book I could find, because that... Buy or find out more →
Every Move You Make
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Untold Tales
$27.50 – Hardcover book / Paper Bark Press
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Little Books On Big Themes Gift Box Set
$60.00 – Boxed set / Melb Univ Press
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Great World
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
For the two men in this novel, war was supposed to be a testing ground. But it proved to be an ordeal of a different kind. Spanning 70 years of Australian life, from Sydney's Cross to the backwaters of the Hawkesbury Riv... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Stories
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
David Malouf's imagination inhabits shocking violence, quick humor, appealing warmth and harsh cruelty with equal intensity. He shares tales of bookish boys, taciturn men and intimate stories of men and women looking for... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Stories
$30.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
In this stunning collection, internationally acclaimed writer David Malouf gives us bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse. These... Buy or find out more →
On Experience
$7.95 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
In this beautifully written, eloquent piece, David Malouf explores the connections between writing and the imagination and offers wonderful insights into his own experiences of the writer's life.
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Twelve Edmondstone Street
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
This remarkable book combines autobiography with a subtle, almost painterly sense of the ways in which the objects which we surround ourselves, and the places in which we live, build up our private maps of reality and sh... Buy or find out more →
Remembering Babylon
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focused on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals. It is essentially the story of a boy caught between both worlds. David Malouf, himself... Buy or find out more →
The Conversations At Curlow Creek
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In 1827, in a hut on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. Carney, an illiterate Irishman, is to be hanged at dawn. Adair, also Irish, has been sent to supervise the hanging. The novel mov... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 12: Made In England: Australia's British Inheritance
$12.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Australia's British inheritance is a paradox that has preoccupied much of Malouf's fiction, and now it gives rise to a brilliant essay exploring Australia's connection with our one-time 'mother country'. In this remarkab... Buy or find out more →