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30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: The Writer and the City | Reading Level: very good
After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. Here, he draws the reader into a journey of discovery and re-discovery. It offers you a private glimpse of Sydney and what lies behind the glitter ...Show more
Florence: A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Writer and the City
Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating--and so r ...Show more
Florence, A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: The Writer and the City | Reading Level: very good
Novelist David Leavitt joins Edmund White and Peter Carey in the acclaimed The Writer and the City series with a scintillating view of Italy's most adored city. Florence is the only European city I can think of whose most famous citizens, at least in the last 150 years or so, have all been foreigners ...Show more
Ghost Town by Patrick McGrath
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Writer and the City Series | Reading Level: very good
Features three tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath. This work excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history.
This Secret Garden : Oxford Revisited (The 'Writer and the City' series) by Justin Cartwright
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: The\Writer and the City Ser.
Part of a series called 'The Writer and the City'. Cartwright has returned to his old university, spoken to many leading figures, looked at his favourite places, subjected himself to am English tutorial, attended the freshers' dinner in his old college, studied various works of art, libraries and museum ...Show more
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