This remarkable book combines autobiography with a subtle, almost painterly sense of the ways in which the objects which we surround ourselves...more details Format:Paperback Pages:134
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780679767930
In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780099273844
In the first century A. D. , Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts...more details Format:Paperback Pages:154
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780099273790
ANTIPODES - stories which pinpoint the contrast between the old world and the new, between youth and age, love and hatred and even life and death itself. . . David Malouf is one of Australia's most highly acclaimed and popular poets and novelists. Now...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780099273851
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:215
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780375424977
From the internationally acclaimed Australian writer, a single volume gathering a brilliant new collection of his short fiction,and all of his previously published stories. These tender...more details Format:Hardback Pages:508
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780099744016
The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780701165710
The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman...more details Format:Hardback
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David Malouf
ISBN:9781741666113
David Malouf's imagination inhabits shocking violence, quick humor, appealing warmth and harsh cruelty with equal intensity. He shares tales of bookish boys...more details Format:Hardback
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780099289906
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:186
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780375724497
Here are nine haunting stories from the award-winning author of "Remembering Babylon," in which history and geography, as well as the past and the present...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780099502586
Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy u here are their stories...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780701180485
Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy - here are their stories...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780140070156
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...more details
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780099273820
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:134
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David Malouf
ISBN:9781863955195
In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, 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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780099273868
Every city, town and village has its 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 Vietnam. In THE GREAT WORLD...more details Format:Paperback Pages:332
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780099273837
Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland's life is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers and his need to repossess...more details Format:Paperback Pages:230
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780099569893
An opera that deals with the love between Jane and Mr Rochester, and the mystery of the woman behind the locked door....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:48
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780099286264
This text presents the libretto for the opera Jane Eyre. The story is condensed from the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte, and tells of the love between Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester...more details Format:Paperback Pages:48
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780642564702
Johnno is the story of a remarkable friendship between two unique characters. David Malouf expertly evokes the complex spirits of the se characters and the bond they share growing up in the rapidly evolving Brisbane of the forties and fifties...more details Format:CD-Audio
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...more details Format:Hardback
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780140042566
David Malouf's first novel is an evocation of an Australian boyhood and early adulthood during the 1940s and 1950s. It recreates the sleazy tropical half-city that was wartime Brisbane and captures a generation locked in combat with the elusive Australian dream...more details Format:Paperback Pages:180
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780702230158
David Malouf's first novel is a rare classic, evoking an Australian boyhood in the forties, the pubs and brothels of the fifties, and the years away treading water overseas. An affectionately outrageous portrait...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780143180142
Dante and Johnno are unlikely childhood friends, growing up in the bustle of steamy, wartime Brisbane. Later, as teenagers, they learn about love and life amidst the city's pubs and public libraries...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:180
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David Malouf
ISBN:9781863953955
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 strengths and weaknesses...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780522855364
Australia's much loved author David Malouf presents a dazzling and illuminating personal essay on the power of imagination--and its effects on the life of a writer--in this first installment of a collectible new series. Beautifully packaged as a pocket-sized keepsake...more details Format:Hardback Pages:89
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David Malouf
ISBN:9781741668377
With learning worn lightly and in his own lyrical language, David Malouf retells Homer's Iliad. Focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men - Priam and Hector...more details Format:Hardback
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780307378774
A reimagination of one of the most famous stories in all of literature-Achilles's slaughter and desecration of Hector, and Priam's attempt to ransom his son's body in Homer's "The Iliad"-Ransom is the first novel in more than a decade from David Malouf...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:224
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780307475244
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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ISBN:9781864826142
Retells Homer's Iliad. Focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men, Priam and Hector, Patroclus and Achilles, Priam and the cart-driver hired to retrieve Hector's body. Pride...more details Format:CD-Audio
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David Malouf
ISBN:9781417718986
Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance...more details
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780679749516
Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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David Malouf
ISBN:9781741667684
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 the time of its foundation...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780099302421
A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focused on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals. It is essentially the story of a boy caught between both worlds. David Malouf...more details Format:Paperback Pages:182
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780702236358
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:200
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780733307263
Examines how having our physical being in one hemisphere and inheriting our culture from another has determined arguments about who we are and what sort of a world we are making. One of Australia's most gifted and praised novelists and poets...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
In this stunning collection, internationally acclaimed writer David Malouf gives us bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons...more details Format:Paperback Pages:561
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780679779056
A new work of fiction by the author of Remembering Babylon. It is 1827, and, in a remote hut high on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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David Malouf
ISBN:9781409042358
Every city, town and village has its 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 Vietnam. In this novel...more details Format:Electronic book text
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David Malouf
ISBN:9781459635340
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:252
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David Malouf
ISBN:9781458723376
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:100
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David Malouf
ISBN:9780702236310
A brilliant collection of poems beginning with a memory of new love and ending in the intimate territory of the long-familiar where there is no need for words...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:96
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Patrick White;David Malouf
ISBN:9781590170021
Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor...more details Format:Paperback Pages:643
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Deborah Hart Hannah Fink Michael Brand David Malouf B and Desmond Macaulay
ISBN:9780980834710
Published to mark William Robinson's 75th birthday and presents all his key works.
William Robinson is one of the nation?s most cherished living artists. He has transformed how we think about and see the Australian landscape...more details Format:Hardback Pages:204
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Malouf David
ISBN:9781741669657
In this exquisite gem of a novel, Achilles is maddened by grief at the death of his friend Patroclus. From the walls of Troy, King Priam watches the body of his son...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Malouf David
ISBN:9781742677668
In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what is it to live a good life?
With grace and profundity...more details Format:CD-Audio