$19.99 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press / ISBN:9780522856026)
On Beauty
In On Beauty Susan Johnson explores the role of beauty in our lives, and in her life in particular: ‘Sometimes I think my whole life has been one long search for beauty. I am Australian and as such I should be embarrassed to write a line like that, in a land where one must speak of beauty in whispers.’ She writes of where her search has taken her, how ‘beauty enters the body like desire’, and how beauty is nothing less than ‘life's call to order, life's bid to save it from itself’.
MUP’s new series Little Books on Big Themes pairs leading Australian thinkers and cultural figures with some of the big themes in life. Each author’s 10,000-word take on a chosen theme is presented as an eminently collectable hardback.
Susan Johnson is an Australian journalist and novelist, based in London. Her books include the novels Flying Lessons, A Big Life, The Broken Book and Life in Seven Mistakes, and the memoir A Better Woman. Her next novel, My Hundred Lovers, will be published in 2010.
Susan Johnson
Life In Seven Mistakes
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )
You're pathetic,' her brother said. 'Still bleating about what mummy and daddy did to you when you're almost old enough to retire. Are you still going to be blaming your parents when you're seventy? Life's too short, Liz... More »
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The Broken Book
$23.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Both very Australian and resoundingly international, The Broken
Book confirms Johnson's status as one of the finest Australian
writers . . . fiercely beautiful.' The Australian
Katherine Elgin grew up in a small coast... More »
A Better Woman
$21.95 (Paperback book / Random Century )
Susan's Johnson's beautiful and confronting memoir of motherhood and the writing experience struck raw nerves and heartstrings in 1999 amongst both the public and the media, producing widespread word of mouth and brillia... More »
Little Books On Big Themes
