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David Malouf
This single volume gathers together all of internationally acclaimed writer Maloufs previously published short stories with a brilliant new collection of his short fiction.
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Semi-autobiographical, the novel perfectly captures the ragged modernisation of Brisbane and the sense of a generation locked in combat with the elusive Australian Dream.
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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…
In this beautifully written, eloquent piece, David Malouf explores the connections between writing and the imagination and offers wonderful insights into his own experiences of the writer’s life….
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.
The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk.
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Nam Le
Nam Le takes the reader on a thrilling intellectual ride in this sharp, bold essay
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Malouf's fable engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a perfect miniature.
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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…
The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild…
Every city, town and village has it memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people’s battles…
Antonella Riem Natale
This timely and long-awaited monograph on the work of eminent Australian writer David Malouf adopts the methodology of Partnership Studies and applies it to the distinctive qualities of his oeuvre…
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In 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 begins by describing, in loving evocative detail, the house in Brisbane where he was born and grew up, moving from room to room, always relating the smallest items…
Don Randall
The international importance of David Malouf’s writing has been acknowledged by several prestigious international awards. This comprehensive study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing.
Don Randall’s comprehensive study situates acclaimed author David Malouf within the field of contemporary international and psotcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author’s affiliation with Australian contexts. The…
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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 explores new and…
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…
Joseph Furphy
A classic of the Australian outback, SUCH IS LIFE is the farcical, tragic reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for David Malouf’s David Malouf’s Great Day, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Yvonne Smith
Each Insight Text Guide features: Highly visual character map with notes on each character and their relationships; In-depth and comprehensive background and context notes; Excellent notes on genre, style and…
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This study examines the earlier writings of celebrated Australian writer David Malouf, who was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Australia…
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…
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By arguably Australia’s greatest author, a succinct and intense meditation on what makes a happy life. At this unique moment in history when privileged, industrialized nations have diminished much of…
Malouf's fable engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a perfect miniature David Malouf shines new light on Homer's Iliad, adding twists and reflections, as well as flashes…
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.
A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon. In his first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music in 2007, David Malouf once again shows us why…
From his poverty-stricken upbringing on a farm in Queensland, Frank Harland nurtures his artistic genius until the time comes when he can take possession of his dreams. Inextricably tangled with…
In the century since the Gallipoli landing, Anzac Day has taken on a different tenor for each succeeding generation. Perceptively and evocatively, David Malouf traces the meaning of this ‘one…
In The Happy Life David Malouf addresses one of the most fundamental questions of all: what makes for a happy life? In luminous prose, with ideas to savour and reflect…
A dramatic novella explores the dark side of passion as a madman plans his life’s most important endeavor, to kill one of Italy’s most beloved men of letters, in an…
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. It steps…
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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. An essential compendium…
A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday. Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions. Parental and grandparental romances, the…
Who else, but a writer, is really able to interrogate the work of other writers? From Christina Stead, Les Murray and Patrick White to Proust, Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte, David…
Exiled from imperial Rome to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, Ovid, the irreverent Roman poet, encounters a feral child, who teaches him the language of…
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…
Enjoying huge popularity since first publication, Jane Eyre (1847) owes much of its success to its emotional power. Jane, a penniless orphan, is engaged as governess by the mysterious Mr…
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…
This is only David Malouf’s third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia’s greatest living poets, Malouf continues to…
A work of lingering beauty and emotional resonance. As Jim Saddler introduces his young employer to the ways of swamp wildlife, the lines of class and education dissolve in a…
Words, music, art and performance. The stuff of a satisfying life.
After exploring the idea of home, where and…
