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Essex Clay by Andrew Motion
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as 'an act of magical retrieval' (Daily Telegraph) and 'a hymn to familial love' (Independent). Now, twelve years later and three years after moving to live and work in the United States, Motion looks back once more to recrea ...Show more
Keats by Andrew Motion
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
First published in 1997, Keats was the first major biography of this tragic hero of Romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the story is well known - has become, in fact, the stuff of legend: the archetypal life of the tortured genius ...Show more
Peace Talks by Sir Andrew Motion
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These meditations on combat and the people caught up in it look back to conflicts of the past: to the 'war to end all war ...Show more
Philip Larkin - A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as 'an exemplary biography of its kind' (The Times). With a new introduction written by the author, this edition offers an engrossing portrait of one of the twentieth century's most popular, and most private, ...Show more
Poetry by Heart - A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud by Andrew Motion (Introduction)
26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by Heart is an essential collection of over 200 poems, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Emily Dickinson, from Christ ...Show more
Poetry by Heart: Poems for Learning and Reciting by Andrew Motion
35.00 AUD
40.00 (12% off)
Category: Poetry
Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart. "The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking". (Simon Armitage). Two years ...Show more
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high seas, of curses, ...Show more
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Think of the fortune waiting for you. July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver's daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fathers. The lure of hidden treasure and the thrill of the ocean odyssey soon gives way to terror as the Nightingale reaches its destination. Treasure Island is n ...Show more
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Andrew Motion
26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A tender, revelatory memoir featuring many of the major figures in British poetry, from a former Poet Laureate.
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Andrew Motion
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A tender, revelatory memoir featuring many of the major figures in British poetry, from a former Poet Laureate.
The Lamberts - George, Constant and Kit by Andrew Motion
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Newly jacketed reissue of Motion's award-winning biography of this high-achieving yet tragically self-destructive family.
The New World by Andrew Motion
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jim and Natty are shipwrecked on the coast of Texas, blown off course on their way home from Treasure Island. But they have stolen something they should have left well alone, something that will haunt them until what was taken has been returned. On their journey they encounter Native American tribes, a ...Show more