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  • by David Malouf
    £18.99

    A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary iconIn 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. David Malouf''s new collection comes to rest at the perfect, still moment of ''silence, following talk'' after its exploration of memory, imagination and mortality. With elegance and wit, these poems move from profound depths to whimsy and playfulness. As Malouf interweaves light and dark, levity and gravity, he offers a vision of life on ''this patch/ of earth and its green things'', charting the resilience of beauty amidst stubborn human grace.

  • by David Malouf
    £10.99

    Perfectly preserving the tone and mood of the novel whilst condensing it into two acts, David Malouf, with the gift for language already evident from his novels and poetry, presents afresh the timeless story of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, one of the most enduring literary classics of all time.

  • by David Malouf
    £8.99

    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. Day by day, in his imagination, he is rehearsing for his greatest performance.

  • by David Malouf
    £10.99

    This debut collection from David Malouf, now one of Australia's most highly acclaimed and popular authors, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Vance Palmer Award and established Malouf's reputation as one of the great writers of contemporary Australian fiction.

  • by David Malouf
    £12.99

    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 sons, all brilliantly recast for our times.

  • by David Malouf
    £8.99

    A complex history comes down to us, through household jokes and anecdotes, odd family habits, and irrational superstitions, that forever shapes what we see and the way in which we see it. Beginning with his childhood home, David Malouf moves on to show other landmarks in his life, and the way places and things create our private worlds.

  • by David Malouf
    £12.99

    A young man going off to war tries to make sense of his place in the world he is leaving; Malouf's men and women are together but curiously alone, looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, in life.

  • by David Malouf
    £8.99

    The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk.

  • by David Malouf
    £12.99

    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, these outstanding stories conjure up with sharp intensity the memories and events that make a man.

  • by David Malouf
    £8.99

    In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. Ranging over seventy years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, it is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness.

  • by David Malouf
    £8.99

    In the first century AD, 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. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impate their dead and converse with the spirit world.

  • by David Malouf
    £12.99

    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, through a patch of land, his family's past.

  • by David Malouf
    £7.99

    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. Inevitably, the two young men - sanctuary owner and employee - are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres.

  • by David Malouf
    £8.99

    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.

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