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The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings (HB) by Geoff Dyer
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily Telegraph. Much attention has been paid to so-called late style - but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in? In this endlessly stimulating investigation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter wit ...Show more
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Head bowed, rifle on his back, a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun, looking at the grave of a dead comrade, remembering him. A photograph from the war, is also a photograph of the way the war will be remembered. It is a photograph of the future, of the future's view of the past. ...Show more
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Head bowed, rifle on his back, a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun, looking at the grave of a dead comrade, remembering him. A photograph from the war, is also a photograph of the way the war will be remembered. It is a photograph of the future, of the future's view of the past. ...Show more
The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer
$27.99 AUD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good
In his last book, YOGA FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO DO IT, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he did not own a camera. With characteristic perversity - and trademark originality - THE ONGOING MOMENT is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic ...Show more
The Ongoing Moment: A Book About Photographs by Geoff Dyer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Photography
Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. With characteristic perversity ? and trademark originality - The Ongoing Moment is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic history of photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles Dyer looks at the w ...Show more
The Search by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it's not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him. So begins this strange, beautiful, road-movie of a novel that takes the hero across the vast landscape o ...Show more
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger And Geoff Dyer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. ...Show more
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
From one of Britain's most original writers, White Sands is a creative exploration of why we travel. Episodic, wide-ranging, funny and smart, the linked journeys recall the themes of Dyer's Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It - - albeit with the wisdom of (middle) age. From a trip to the Ligh ...Show more
Working The Room - Essays and Reviews - 1999-2010 by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music.Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more pers ...Show more