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Ransom by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer's Iliad--one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclu ...Show more
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Winner of the 1996 International Impac Dublin Literary Award. 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 Australia at th ...Show more
Revolving Days by David Malouf
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
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 of literature.
The Great World: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1991 by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
For the two men in this novel, war was supposed to be a testing ground. But it proved to be an ordeal of a different kind. Spanning 70 years of Australian life, from Sydney's Cross to the backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, this is a novel of lost innocence and witness.
The One Day by David Malouf
$6.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays | Series: Short Blacks (Number 7) | Reading Level: very good
'Silence was a deeply established tradition. Men used it as a form of self-protection; it saved those who had experienced the horrors of war from the emotional trauma of experiencing it all over again in the telling. And it saved women and children, back home, from the terrible knowledge of what they ha ...Show more
The Writing Life by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays
Who else, but a writer, is really able to interrogate the work of other writers? From Christina Stead, Les Murray and Patrick White to Proust, Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte, David Malouf reads and examines the work of writers who have challenged, inspired and entertained us for generations. He also e ...Show more
Typewriter Music by David Malouf
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
David Malouf's brilliant collection of poems begins with a memory of new love - with 'grace unasked for, urgencies that boom under the pocket of a shirt' - and ends in the intimate territory of the long-familiar where there is no need for words. This volume is marked by an astonishing breadth of intelli ...Show more