Robert Dessaix
Arabesques
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
The paperback of Robert Dessaix's latest travel memoir.
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andr Gide spent his childhood. Recallin... Buy or find out more →
On Humbug
$19.95 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
With his trademark eloquence and humour, Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's eminent writers, tackles humbug in the modern world—the tide of mumbo jumbo where words fall short of what they mean and motivations are not alw... Buy or find out more →
Arabesques
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Picador
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andr Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide as ... Buy or find out more →
Twilight Of Love
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Alongside his friends Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Turgenev was one of the three great men of the Russian novel's golden age. Fathers and Sons and A Hunter's Notes caused sensations when they were published; by depicting ser... Buy or find out more →
Mothers Disgrace
$24.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
A reissue of the intimate and moving account of the search for origins and identity by respected author, broadcaster, essayist and translator Robert Dessaix.
Adopted as a baby towards the end of World War II, Robert Dess... Buy or find out more →
Night Letters
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Every night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, an Australian man recently diagnosed with an incurable disease writes a letter home to a friend. In these letters he reflects on questions of mortality, seduction ... Buy or find out more →
And So Forth
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
In this award-winning selection of short fiction, essays and journalism, Robert Dessaix offers insights into the many selves at play behind the mask of well-known broadcaster and author of Corfu and Night Letters. A book... Buy or find out more →
Corfu A Novel
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
House in Gastouri for rent for 2 mths. Occupant travelling. Reasonable rent.' In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man he's never met, a young Australian actor pieces together the strange life s... Buy or find out more →