Writers Festival Highlights
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )
Sedaris, king of the poignantly absurd, triumphs in this sixth essay collection (after 2004's Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim). There is less focus here on the Sedaris clan as a whole, though the various members ... More »
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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. More »
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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... More »
American Journeys
$49.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
Only in America, the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything, are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys in 2005 and 2006, acclaimed author Don Watson set out... More »
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When Will There Be Good News?
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Doubleday )
The third Jackson Brodie novel by the bestselling author of Case Histories and One Good Turn.
In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime.
Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is r... More »
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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... More »
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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... More »
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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... More »
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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... More »
On Experience
$19.95 (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 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 ... More »