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  • Johnno

    by David Malouf ...
    "Despite Johnno's assertion that Brisbane was absolutely the ugliest place in the world, I had the feeling as I walked across deserted intersections, past empty parks with their tropical trees all spiked and sharp-edged in the early sunlight, that it might even be beautiful ... " Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of his home ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Earth Hour

    by David Malouf ...
    A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon, David Malouf's first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music once again shows us why he is one of Australia's most enduring and respected writers. Earth Hour 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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembering Babylon

    by David Malouf ...
    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. Focussing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native Aborigines. Remembering Bablyon tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught between the two worlds. Shot ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 12 Edmondstone Street

    by David Malouf ...
    Each house, like each place, has its own topography, its own lore. 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Ransom

    by David Malouf ...
    In this exquisite gem of a novel, David Malouf shines new light onHomer's Iliad, adding twists and reflections, as well as flashes of earthy humour, to surprise and enchant. 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Harland's Half Acre

    by David Malouf ...
    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. The story spans Frank's life; from before the First World War, through years as a swaggie in the Great Depression and Brisbane in the forties, to his retirement to a patch of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • On Experience

    by David Malouf ...
    Series series On Series
    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 instalment of a collectible new series. Beautifully packaged as a pocket-sized keepsake, this treasurable approach salvages a popular writer's inner philosophy from the disposability of journals and magazine columns for the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Art of Love

    by Ovid ...
    Translated by James Michie ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    In the first century a.d., Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses, came under severe criticism for The Art of Love, which playfully instructed women in the art of seduction and men in the skills essential for mastering the art of romantic conquest. In this remarkable translation, James Michie breathes new life into the notorious Roman’s mock-didactic elegy. In lyrical, ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Quarterly Essay 41 The Happy Life

    The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

    by David Malouf ...
    Series Book 41 - Quarterly Essay
    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, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life what it is, and what makes it possible David Malouf returns to the "highest wisdom" of the classics, looks at ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Quarterly Essay 12 Made in England

    Australia's British Inheritance

    by David Malouf ...
    Series Book 12 - Quarterly Essay
    In Made in England, David Malouf looks at Australia’s bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn’t the Mother Country which did most of the giving. This is an essay which presents British civilisation, the civilisation of Shakespeare and the Enlightenment and the Westminster system, as the irreducible ground on which any Australian achievement is based. Britain has always been the tolerant ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    The Conversations at Curlow Creek

    by David Malouf ...
    Narrated by Maeliosa Stafford ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 6 min

    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, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair, also Irish, is an officer of the police who has been sent to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two discover unexpected connections between their lives, and learn ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Fly Away Peter

    by David Malouf ...
    Narrated by Paul English ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours

    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. In another hemisphere civilisation rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. Inevitably, the two young men – sanctuary owner and employee – are drawn to the war, and into the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD