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Dream Stuff by David Malouf
Category: Fiction
From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father, this book presents stories that conjure up the memories and events that make a man. It uncovers vulnerable selves, moments of innocence or s ...Show more
Earth Hour by David Malouf
Category: Gift
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” ...Show more
Every Move You Make by David Malouf
Category: Fiction
Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy - here are their stories, whole lives brought vividly into focus and so powerfully rooted in the landscape that you can almost feel the he ...Show more
Fly Away Peter by David Malouf; Paul English (Read by)
Category: Audio
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. In ...Show more
Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
Category: Fiction
"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 civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. I ...Show more
Harland's Half Acre by David Malouf
Category: Fiction
A revised edition of this seminal Malouf novel, now with an Afterword from the author. Frank Harland's life is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers, and his desire to regain the Harlands' lost prosperity. Phil Vernon, growing up alone in the midst of a ...Show more
Imaginary Life, An by David Malouf; Paul English (Read by)
Category: Audio
In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, Malouf has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving novel. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled fro ...Show more
Johnno by David Malouf; Christopher Pitman (Read by)
Category: Audio
Despite Johnno's assertion that Brisbane was absolutely the ugliest place in the world, I had the feelings as I walked across deserted intersections, past empty parks with their tropical trees all spilked and sharp-edged in the early sunlight, that it might even be beautiful . . . 'Johnno is a typical A ...Show more
Johnno by David Malouf
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. Seen through the eyes of the narrator, he is a figure of legendary proportions. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of gothic Brisbane, or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. But what is the truth about Johnno? Semi-auto ...Show more
Johnno by David Malouf; Christopher Pitman (Read by)
Category: Audio
Despite Johnno's assertion that Brisbane was absolutely the ugliest place in the world, I had the feelings as I walked across deserted intersections, past empty parks with their tropical trees all spilked and sharp-edged in the early sunlight, that it might even be beautiful . . . 'Johnno is a typical A ...Show more
Making Art Public - Kaldor Public Art Projects, 1969-2019 by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Genevieve O'Callaghan (Editor); Mark Gowing (Designed by); Michael Landy; Nicholas Baume; Rebecca Coates; Ross Gibson; Ross Rudesch Harley; David Malouf; Emily Sullivan; Michael Brand (Foreword by); John Kaldor (Introduction by)
Category: Art | Series: Kaldor Art Projects 1969 - 2019
Shrouding one million square feet of Little Bay with fabric and rope, Wrapped Coast, 1969, by Christo and Jeanne-Claude was a groundbreaking piece of public art that propelled Sydney into the international art scene and left an indelible mark on Australian culture. On the fiftieth anniversary of Wrapped ...Show more
On Experience by DAVID MALOUF
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
In this beautifully written, eloquent piece by one of Australia's most celebrated novelists, David Malouf asks what is experience and how do we come by it? He explores the connections between writing and his imagination and offers wonderful insights into his own experiences of the writer's life.