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Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 by David Lodge
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The only child in a lower-middle-class family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his mother, David Lodge was four when World War II ...Show more
Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 by David Lodge
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A memoir from one of Britain's finest novelists and critics. 'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and ...Show more
Scenes of Academic Life by David Lodge
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguin 70 Years | Reading Level: very good
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books ...Show more
The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
$35.00 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism a ...Show more
The Campus Trilogy by David Lodge
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' - "Time Out." Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.
The Year of Henry James: The Story of a Novel: with Other Essays on the Genesis, Composition and Reception of Literary Fiction by David Lodge
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Where do novelists get their 'ideas' from? How do they develop an idea into a narrative with a specific and individual form? How far is the reception of a work of fiction conditioned by factors outside the writer's control? In the first part of this book, in revealing and often amusing reminiscence, Dav ...Show more
The Year of Henry James : The story of a novel by David Lodge
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 2004, three major novels featuring Henry James as a character were published - one of them went on to win the Booker Prize. It was not David Lodge's "Author Author". In this fascinating new book, a kind of postscript to his novel, Lodge traces the conception, writing and publication of his book, and ...Show more
Therapy by David Lodge
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally ...Show more
Thinks by David Lodge
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ralph Messenger is an academic star of language and thought research, Helen Reed is a novelist teaching creative writing to help her overcome her husband's death. Despite huge differences in belief and temperament they begin an affair that has both tragic and comic consequences.
Varying Degrees of Success - A Memoir 1992-2010 by David Lodge
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain's best-loved and most versatile writers. With Varying Degrees of Success he completes a trilogy of memoirs which describe his life from birth in 1935 to the present day, and together form a remarkable autobiography. His aim is to desc ...Show more