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Playboy: 'An essential read' - Joelle Taylor, T.S. Eliot Prize- [...]
At the age of forty-three, the narrator abandons her marriage, her apartment and her successful legal career as a public defender to re-emerge as an out lesbian and a writer.In...
Notes to John
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES 'A profound, rich document' NEW STATESMAN 'An act of intimate storytelling' VOGUE A recently discovered journal from one of America's...
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy
The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single volume in Penguin Modern Classics Growing up in a working-class neighbourhood...
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries...
The Long and Winding Road: My Autobiography
One of the world's bestselling storytellers, Lesley Pearse writes brilliantly about survivors. Why? Because she is one herself . . . Lesley Pearse didn't publish her first novel until she...
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day,...
Black and Female
Being categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more than merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures me I am.This paradigm shifting...
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition
The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing...
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries 1978-1998
Helen Garner's acclaimed three volumes of diaries are collected here in one sumptuous book. Spanning two decades-from the publication of her lightning-rod debut novel in the late 70s, to the...
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunning book' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Dazzling' TARA WESTOVER 'A story about hope, imagination and resilience' GUARDIAN An...
Fridays with Blanche
'What a treat! Brutal truths and bombshells galore. Profound reflections on life, longing and the legacy of Bob. It's like a long Friday lunch that you never want to end....
Myself and Other Animals
A final posthumous work of autobiography from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth A final posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and...
Letters to Milena
A window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer 'You are the knife I turn inside myself' Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse,...