Writers Festival Highlights
Wolf At The Table
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Picador
From the number one New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes an hilarious, frightening and compulsively readable new memoir. Buy or find out more →
Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's Interrupted Revolution
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
In the early 1980s, Paul Keating set out to reinvent the Australian economy. He floated the Australian dollar, liberated banking and finance from its regulatory shackles, and — most significantly — introduced a universal... Buy or find out more →
Don't Get Too Comfortable
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
David Rakoff takes us on a grand tour of the American culture of excess. Whether he is discussing the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde, working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel in Miam... Buy or find out more →
The Lucy Family Alphabet
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Judith Lucy has been cracking jokes about her parents for years. But when a birth relative's casual comment implied that she despised them, Judith was shocked. Sure, she had been talking about Ann and Tony Lucy like they... Buy or find out more →
The Spare Room
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Text Publishing
An extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers
Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no or... Buy or find out more →
On Ecstasy
$19.95 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
In this vivid, biographical piece, provocative director Barrie Kosky explores the feelings of intense joy and delight, as well as the power and terror, that is ecstasy.
MUP's new series Little Books on Big Themes pairs l... 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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On Rage
$7.95 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Germaine Greer's passionate and powerfully worded essay about Aboriginal rage is a provocation that will cause heated and intense debate.
MUP's new series Little Books on Big Themes pairs leading Australian thinkers and ... Buy or find out more →
On Longing
$19.95 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Blanche d'Alpuget's intimate and revealing meditation on longing examines the creative tension between writing and love. This moving tribute to her muse will surprise and touch readers.
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Running With Scissors
$24.99 – Paperback book / Orion
In this unforgettable, and by turns hilarious and harrowing memoir, Augusten Burroughs recounts the bizarre events of his childhood. After his parents' divorce, his mother, a delusional poet, left him in the care of her ... Buy or find out more →