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Byron in Love by Edna O'Brien
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal. Everything abo ...Show more
Byron in Love by Edna O'Brien
$25.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Bryon's name is part of the English language. The word 'Byronic' suggests excess, diabolical deeds and a rebelliousness answering neither to king nor commoner. Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his ...Show more
Committed Writings by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. 'Letters to a German Friend' was Camus' first wartime intervention, written in 1943 in order 'to make our battle more effective'. 'Reflections on the Guill ...Show more
Country Girl - A Memoir by Edna O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."--National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was und ...Show more
Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O'Brien
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enoug ...Show more
Culture and Politics - Class, Writing, Socialism by Raymond Williams; Philip O'Brien (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Brand new collection of the essential essays from one of the founders of cultural studies, Raymond Williams Raymond Williams was a pioneering scholar of cultural and society, and one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. In this, a collection of difficult to find essays, some of whi ...Show more
Dad's Maybe Book by Tim O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The bestselling author of The Things They Carried and If I Die in a Combat Zone shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humour and rewards of raising two sons. When Tim O'Brien became an older father, he resolved to give his young sons what he wished his ow ...Show more
Daughter of The River Country by Dianne O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From a victim of the 'stolen generations' comes a remarkable memoir of abuse, survival - and ultimately hope.Born in country NSW in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from her Aboriginal mother. Raised in the era of the White Australia policy, Dianne grows up believing her adoptive Irish mother ...Show more
ECO STYLE by O'BRIEN SIOBHAN
$45.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Eco style is about creating a living space that is environmentally friendly and ecologically sound without sacrificing contemporary interior design and modern architectural principles.
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune: 2052-2072 by M. E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism--New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolut ...Show more
Flavours of Melbourne by O'BRIEN Charmaine
$39.95 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
In this colourful and cleverly written culinary history of the city of Melbourne, author Charmaine O'Brien guides the reader through the changing eating habits of Melburnians. Beginning with the little-known and diverse diet of Port Philip Bay's Indigenous inhabitants prior to white settlement, the book ...Show more