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On Experience
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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The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
In this elegant treatise, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life? With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about...
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Ransom
Lyrical, immediate and heartbreaking, Malouf's fable engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a perfect miniature - themes of war and heroics, hubris and humanity, chance and fate, the bonds between soldiers, fathers and...
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The Great World
Every city, town and village has it memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and...
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The Complete Stories
This single volume gathers together all of internationally acclaimed writer Maloufs previously published short stories with a brilliant new collection of his short fiction.
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Johnno
Semi-autobiographical, the novel perfectly captures the ragged modernisation of Brisbane and the sense of a generation locked in combat with the elusive Australian Dream.
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Fly Away Peter
For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers.
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An Imaginary Life
The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild animals in the snow. It is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature.
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Dream Stuff
From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI Escort, yet still hoping for the return of a father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father,...
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Remembering Babylon
In the 1840s, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. A picture of...
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Ransom
Lyrical, immediate and heartbreaking, Malouf's fable engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a perfect miniature - themes of war and heroics, hubris and humanity, chance and fate, the bonds between soldiers, fathers and...
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Typewriter Music
This brilliant collection of poems begins with a memory of new love and ends in the intimate territory of the long-familiar, where there is no need for words. It steps lightly among the object of our lives and the wonder of...
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An Open Book
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An Imaginary Life
First-person story of the Roman poet Ovid's exile in the distant, frosty wastes. At the centre of the tale is Ovid's encounter with a wild boy, brought up among the deer in the snow.
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An Imaginary Life
First-person story of the Roman poet Ovid's exile in the distant, frosty wastes. At the centre of the tale is Ovid's encounter with a wild boy, brought up among the deer in the snow.
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Ransom
Achilles is maddened by grief at the death of his friend Patroclus. King Priam of Troy watches the body of his son, Hector, being dragged behind Achilles' chariot. There must be a way, he thinks, of reclaiming the body - of...
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Fly Away Peter
For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers.
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Dream Stuff
From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI Escort, yet still hoping for the return of a father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father,...
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Johnno
Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. Seen through the eyes of the narrator, he is a figure of legendary proportions. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of gothic Brisbane, or destroy the...
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Johnno
Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. Seen through the eyes of the narrator, he is a figure of legendary proportions. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of gothic Brisbane, or destroy the...
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Remembering Babylon
In the 1840s, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. A picture of...
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Remembering Babylon
In the 1840s, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. A picture of...
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The Conversations at Curlow Creek
The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk.
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Ransom
Lyrical, immediate and heartbreaking, Malouf's fable engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a perfect miniature - themes of war and heroics, hubris and humanity, chance and fate, the bonds between soldiers, fathers and...
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The Conversations at Curlow Creek
The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk.
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An Imaginary Life
First-person story of the Roman poet Ovid's exile in the distant, frosty wastes. At the centre of the tale is Ovid's encounter with a wild boy, brought up among the deer in the snow.
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An Imaginary Life
First-person story of the Roman poet Ovid's exile in the distant, frosty wastes. At the centre of the tale is Ovid's encounter with a wild boy, brought up among the deer in the snow.
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The Great World
Every city, town and village has it memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and...
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The Great World
Every city, town and village has it memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and...
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Fly Away Peter
For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers.
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Fly Away Peter
For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers.
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The Happy Life: The Search of Contentment in the Modern World: Quarterly Essay 41
David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life? With grace and profundity, Malouf explores new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In...
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A First Place
A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday. Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions. Parental and grandparental...
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Remembering Babylon
A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Shot through with humour, and poetic...
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Remembering Babylon
A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Shot through with humour, and poetic...
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The Conversations at Curlow Creek
The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk.
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The Conversations at Curlow Creek
The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk.
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Revolving Days: Selected Poems
An up-to-the-minute selection by one of Australia's most distinguished poets. Malouf's best poems, with their grace and intelligence, remain among the finest examples of the Australian lyric. An essential compendium for all lovers...
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Made in England: Australia’s British Inheritance: Quarterly Essay 12
Australia's British inheritance is a paradox that has preoccupied much of Malouf's fiction, and now it gives rise to a brilliant essay exploring Australia's connection with our one-time 'mother-country'. Malouf ponders the...
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The Writing Life
The pieces in this collection were produced over a period of more than forty years, some of them as articles and reviews in newspapers or magazines, others as public addresses, others again as introductions to classic texts --Page...
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Harland’s Half Acre
From his poverty-stricken upbringing on a farm in Queensland, Frank Harland nurtures his artistic genius until the time comes when he can take possession of his dreams. Inextricably tangled with Frank is Phil Vernon, the only...
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Being There
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Earth Hour
In his first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music in 2007, David Malouf once again shows us why he is one of Australia's most enduring and respected writers.
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Fly Away Peter
A work of lingering beauty and emotional resonance. As Jim Saddler introduces his young employer to the ways of swamp wildlife, the lines of class and education dissolve in a brief space of time on the edge of the 20th century. We...
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The Great World
Every city, town and village has it memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and...
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The Great World
Every city, town and village has it memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and...
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Child’s Play
In the streets of an ordinary Italian town, the people go about their everyday lives. In an old apartment block above them, a young man pores over photographs and plans, dedicated to his life's most important project. Yet when...
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Dream Stuff: Stories
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