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Abracadabra by Robert Dessaix
$34.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
'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
And So Forth by Robert Dessaix
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In this selection of his short fiction, essays and journalism from the last decade Dessaix offers insights into the many selves at play behind the mask of well-known broadcaster and author of Night Letters. Paperback 0330362070 $19.95.
Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives - SIGNED by Robert Dessaix
$49.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | 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
Corfu by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
House in Gastouri for rent for 2 mths. Occupant travelling. Reasonable rent. In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man hes never met, a young Australian actor pieces together the strange life story of the Australian writer whose house hes living in. As he explores his surroundi ...Show more
Corfu by Robert Dessaix
$22.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'House in Gastouri for rent for 2 mths. Occupant travelling. Reasonable rent.' In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man he
Night Letters - A Journey Through Switzerland and Italy by Robert Dessaix
$24.20 AUD
Category: Adult 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.
The Best Australian Essays: 2005 by Robert Dessaix
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
A collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's finest writers.
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
'Almost everybody I know has done it at least once. Some of my friends indulge on a regular basis. Women seem especially susceptible to giving it a go. I?ve been at it since I was at least five. What on earth do we imagine we?re doing??Many of us lack a talent for leisure. We are working longer hours as ...Show more
The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well by Robert Dessaix
$26.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality | Reading Level: Adult
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
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