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On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Writers on Writers
A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars--the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle is a highly engaging personal introduction to Hol ...Show more
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin
39.95 AUD
41.95 (4% off)
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Writers on Writers
In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences-the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how h ...Show more
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
17.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
On Robyn Davidson: Writers on Writers by Richard Cooke
17.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Writers on Writing
Robyn Davidson, author of the classic memoir Tracks, has led a remarkable life of writing and nomadic travel. In this crisp, erudite essay, acclaimed critic and journalist Richard Cooke explores Davidson's relationship with place and freedom, and her singular presence in Australian letters.In the Writer ...Show more
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
32.95 AUD
37.95 (13% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Writers on Writers | Reading Level: very good
When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie - Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith - often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by ...Show more
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