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author spotlight
David Malouf—winner of the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Prix Femina Étranger and the Los Angeles Times Book Award—is the author of, among other works, Remembering Babylon, An Imaginary Life and The Conversations at Curlow Creek. He lives in Australia.
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Ransom
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $24.00
In his first novel in more than a decade, David Malouf—arguably Australia’s greatest living writer—gives us a stirring reimagination of one of the most famous passages in all of literature: Achilles’ rageful slaughter and desecration of Hector, and Priam’s attempt to ransom his son’s body in Homer’s The Iliad.
A moving novel... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $24.00
In his first novel in more than a decade, David Malouf—arguably Australia’s greatest living writer—gives us a stirring reimagination of one of the most famous passages in all of literature: Achilles’ rageful slaughter and desecration of Hector, and Priam’s attempt to ransom his son’s body in Homer’s The Iliad.
A moving novel... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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An Imaginary Life
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 28, 1996
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 28, 1996
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
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The Art of Love
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $13.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $13.00
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... Read more >
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Remembering Babylon
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 4, 1994
Price: $15.00
Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee
In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 4, 1994
Price: $15.00
Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee
In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore... Read more >
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The Complete Stories
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $16.95
In this stunning collection, internationally acclaimed writer David Malouf gives us bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse. These are their stories, whole lives brought dramatically into focus and powerfully rooted in the vividly rendered landscape of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $16.95
In this stunning collection, internationally acclaimed writer David Malouf gives us bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse. These are their stories, whole lives brought dramatically into focus and powerfully rooted in the vividly rendered landscape of... Read more >
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The Great World
Format: Trade Paperback, 340 pages
On Sale: September 28, 1993
Price: $17.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 340 pages
On Sale: September 28, 1993
Price: $17.00
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Fly Away Peter
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: May 26, 1998
Price: $15.00
In this shimmering work of imagination, one of Australia's most honored writers conjures a single still moment on the edge of the 20th century in which two unlikely people share a friendship. When Ashley Crowther returns to Australia to manage his father's property, he discovers a timeless landscape of kingfishers and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: May 26, 1998
Price: $15.00
In this shimmering work of imagination, one of Australia's most honored writers conjures a single still moment on the edge of the 20th century in which two unlikely people share a friendship. When Ashley Crowther returns to Australia to manage his father's property, he discovers a timeless landscape of kingfishers and... Read more >
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The Complete Stories
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $27.50
From the internationally acclaimed Australian writer: a single volume gathering a brilliant new collection of his short fiction, Every Move You Make, and all of his previously published stories.
In the heretofore unpublished Every Move You Make: bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $27.50
From the internationally acclaimed Australian writer: a single volume gathering a brilliant new collection of his short fiction, Every Move You Make, and all of his previously published stories.
In the heretofore unpublished Every Move You Make: bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Conversations at Curlow Creek
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $15.00
A new work of fiction by the author of Remembering Babylon. It is 1827, and, in a remote hut high on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, an illiterate Irishman, and ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other is... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $15.00
A new work of fiction by the author of Remembering Babylon. It is 1827, and, in a remote hut high on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, an illiterate Irishman, and ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other is... Read more >
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Child's Play
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 27, 1999
Price: $12.00
In a sunlit piazza on an April morning, women throw buckets of water over the cobbles and men deliver trays of pastry to trattorie. In a barren room above, a fanatic watches, engaged in the details of his life's most important project: the assassination of one of Italy's most beloved men... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 27, 1999
Price: $12.00
In a sunlit piazza on an April morning, women throw buckets of water over the cobbles and men deliver trays of pastry to trattorie. In a barren room above, a fanatic watches, engaged in the details of his life's most important project: the assassination of one of Italy's most beloved men... Read more >
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Dream Stuff
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2001
Price: $12.00
Here are nine haunting stories from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, in which history and geography, as well as the past and the present, combine and often collide, illuminating the landscape and revealing the character of Australia.
An eleven-year-old boy sees his father in his own elongated shadow only to realize... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2001
Price: $12.00
Here are nine haunting stories from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, in which history and geography, as well as the past and the present, combine and often collide, illuminating the landscape and revealing the character of Australia.
An eleven-year-old boy sees his father in his own elongated shadow only to realize... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Harland's Half Acre
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $12.00
Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $12.00
Read more >
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The Complete Stories
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $16.95
From the internationally acclaimed Australian writer: a single volume gathering a brilliant new collection of his short fiction, Every Move You Make, and all of his previously published stories.
In the heretofore unpublished Every Move You Make: bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and... Read more >
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $16.95
From the internationally acclaimed Australian writer: a single volume gathering a brilliant new collection of his short fiction, Every Move You Make, and all of his previously published stories.
In the heretofore unpublished Every Move You Make: bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Dream Stuff
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
Here are nine haunting stories from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, in which history and geography, as well as the past and the present, combine and often collide, illuminating the landscape and revealing the character of Australia.
An eleven-year-old boy sees his father in his own elongated shadow only to realize... Read more >
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
Here are nine haunting stories from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, in which history and geography, as well as the past and the present, combine and often collide, illuminating the landscape and revealing the character of Australia.
An eleven-year-old boy sees his father in his own elongated shadow only to realize... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Ransom
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $24.00
In his first novel in more than a decade, David Malouf—arguably Australia’s greatest living writer—gives us a stirring reimagination of one of the most famous passages in all of literature: Achilles’ rageful slaughter and desecration of Hector, and Priam’s attempt to ransom his son’s body in Homer’s The Iliad.
A moving novel... Read more >
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $24.00
In his first novel in more than a decade, David Malouf—arguably Australia’s greatest living writer—gives us a stirring reimagination of one of the most famous passages in all of literature: Achilles’ rageful slaughter and desecration of Hector, and Priam’s attempt to ransom his son’s body in Homer’s The Iliad.
A moving novel... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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