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A Life by Design: The Art and Lives of Florence Broadhurst by Siobhan O'Brien
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Florence Broadhurst, the one-time chanteuse of Shanghai, Bond Street salon owner, world-renowned wallpaper designer and Sydney socialite lived a life steeped in subterfuge and deception. Here for the first time we get a glimpse at the fascinating woman behind the hand-printed brocades.
America Fantastica by Tim O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An American Master returns: The author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery by a disgraced journalist sparks a cross-country chase through a nation corroded by shameless delusion and deceit. At 11:34 a.m. one ...Show more
Around the Boree Log (and) The Parish of St Mels by John O'Brien
$17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In his affectionate and gently humorous verses John O'Brien sang of farming life and of the life of Irish settlers in Australia - at home, on the land, and at the Church upon the Hill that is the centre of their lives.
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien; William H. Gass (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Hailed as the paramount expression of metafiction and Irish culture, and uproariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations of writers, broadening the possibilities of what can be done in ficiton. This comic novel is the story of a loafing and inebriated Dublin-based universi ...Show more
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"This is just the book to give your sister - if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." - Dylan Thomas. Flann O'Brien's first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin and spends far too much time drinking with his friends. When not drunk or in b ...Show more
August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Banned in several countries upon first publication, August is a Wicked Month is a simmering tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera. Separated from her husband and with her young son away, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom. B ...Show more
Backstage Pass: Rock & Roll Photography by Glenn O'Brien
$49.95 AUD
Category: Photography
This striking collection of photographs features nearly every important figure in the world of rock & roll, from Elvis to Eric Clapton, The Beatles to Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix to John Coltrane. Many of the nearly one hundred images have rarely been published, and all reveal fascinating glimpses of ce ...Show more
Bawoo Stories by O'BRIEN May
$26.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Four wonderful traditional teaching stories of the Wongutha people are collected together here for the first time: *Barn Barn Barlala *The Kangaroos Who Wanted to be People *How Crows Became Black *Why the Emu Can't Fly First published as individual titles in 1992, these stories were seen as ground-brea ...Show more
Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life. With shameless irony and relentless high spirits Myles''Cruiskeen Lawn' became the mos ...Show more
Bush School by Peter O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A charming story of a time long-gone and the struggles of a young man with his first teaching assignment in a village at the back of beyond. There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang e ...Show more
Bush School by Peter O'Brien
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
A charming story of a time long-gone and the struggles of a young man with his first teaching assignment in a village at the back of beyond. There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang e ...Show more