$19.99 (Hardcover book / Pan Macmillan / ISBN:9780522855630)
On Obsession
MUP’s new series Little Books on Big Themes pairs leading Australian thinkers and cultural figures with some of the big themes in life: rage, experience, longing and ecstasy. Each author’s 10,000-word take on a chosen theme is presented as an eminently collectable hardback.
Malcolm Knox contemplates love, Proust, soulmates in fiction, palindromic numbers and bloodlines, among other fixations, and wonders if the obsessive quest marks a retreat from life …
Malcolm Knox
A Private Man
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
It is two days since Dr John Brand's death and his eldest son, Davis, suspects a cover-up. 'Survived by two sons', the death notice said. 'Peacefully.' But someone has lied: there are three sons, and the circumstances of... More »
Secrets Of The Jury Room
$24.95 (Paperback book / Random House )
Lawyers and judges speak platitudes about the wisdom and commonsense and community values juries bring to bear, but it's clear from Malcolm Knox's recent experience of a long jury trial that this is a legal fiction. He f... More »
On Obsession
$19.99 (Hardcover book / Pan Macmillan )
MUP’s new series Little Books on Big Themes pairs leading Australian thinkers and cultural figures with some of the big themes in life: rage, experience, longing and ecstasy. Each author’s 10,000-word take on a chosen th... More »
Scattered The Inside Story Of Ice In Australia
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
An act of violence while on crystal meth seems to burst boundaries; the perpetrator keeps on hitting and hitting, not knowing why, just going on beyond any purpose or restraint, repeating the action as mindlessly as play... More »
Little Books On Big Themes
