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Abracadabra by Robert Dessaix
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'The first time around these pieces were not widely heard or read. A roomful of festival-goers in Sydney or Penang or Ballarat could well have heard me hold forth on the subject of Enid Blyton, say, or kissing, it’s true, and a few of my newspaper articles – my feuilletons, as I’m calling them – may hav ...Show more
Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives - SIGNED by Robert Dessaix
$49.99 AUD
Category: Photographic/Gift | Reading Level: very good
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, he set off to recapture what it was that once drew him so strongly to t ...Show more
Arabesques: A tale of double lives by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, France, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, he set off to recapture what it was that once drew him so stron ...Show more
As I Was Saying - A Collection of Musings by Robert Dessaix
$27.99 AUD
Category: Essays / Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
AS I WAS SAYING is a swirling conversation with the reader on everything from travel to dogs and cats, from sport and swearing to the pleasures of idleness. Punctuated at regular intervals by talks Dessaix has given on a wide range of subjects, as well as by some of his most incisive journalism, the con ...Show more
Night Letters by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Every night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, an Australian man recently diagnosed with an incurable disease writes a letter home to a friend. In these letters he reflects on questions of mortality, seduction and the search for paradise in deeply life-enhancing ways. Papberback (B-Format)
On Humbug by Robert Dessaix
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
With his trademark eloquence and humour, Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's eminent writers, tackles humbug in the modern world; the tide of mumbo jumbo where words fall short of what they mean and motivations are not always what they appear.
The Best Australian Essays: 2005 by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays / Short Stories
A collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's finest writers.
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
$32.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development/Psychology | Reading Level: very good
In today's crazily busy world the importance of making time for leisure is more vital than ever. Yet so many of us lack a talent for it. We are working longer hours, consuming more than ever before; technology erodes the work-life balance further; increasingly, people feel that only work gives existence ...Show more
The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well by Robert Dessaix
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations ab ...Show more
Twilight of Love - Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix
$40.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alongside his friends Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Turgenev was one of the three great men of the Russian novelâÂÂs golden age. Fathers and Sons and A HunterâÂÂs Notes caused sensations when they were published; by depicting serfs as human beings, the latter was said to have persuaded the Tsar to free ...Show more
What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writers. One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and ...Show more
What Days are for by Robert Dessaix
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writers. One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and ...Show more
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