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Silence was a deeply established tradition. Men used it as a form of self-protection, it saved those who had experienced the horrors of war from the emotional trauma of experiencing it all over again in the telling. And it saved women and children, back home, from the terrible knowledge of what they had seen and walked away from ... One result of this was that the men who had actually lived through Gallipoli and the trenches did not write abou...

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A young man going off to war tries to make sense of his place in the world he is leaving, Malouf's men and women are together but curiously alone, looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, in life.

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An Open Book celebrates the power of poetry and reaffirms David Malouf as one of Australia's most celebrated and beloved writers. This is only David Malouf's third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia's greatest living poets, Malouf continues to meditate and reflect on themes of mortality and memory. The poems in An Open Book are attentive and evocative, vital and beautiful, revisit...

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Perfectly preserving the tone and mood of the novel whilst condensing it into two acts, David Malouf, with the gift for language already evident from his novels and poetry, presents afresh the timeless story of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, one of the most enduring literary classics of all time.

Jäger verfolgen Wolfsspuren im Schnee: Zwei kleine Mädchen und ein Junge spielen in einem Winkel von Australien diese Szene nach, als plötzlich ein hinkendes Geschöpf auf sie zukommt - halb Mensch, halb Tier, wie es scheint. Malouf erzählt die Geschichte eines englischen Jungen, dem »wilden Kind«, der viele Jahre unter den Aborigines lebte und plötzlich in die Welt der Weißen zurückkehrt, auf der Suche nach seiner Sprache, seiner Geschichte, s...

In this beautifully written, eloquent piece, David Malouf explores the connections between writing and the imagination and offers wonderful insights into his own experiences of the writer's life....

By Australia's greatest contemporary author, an elegant, succinct meditation on what makes for a happy life. , -) "Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous, " says David Malouf. But what exactly are we looking for when we chase happiness? At this particular moment in history, privileged, industrialized nations have lessened much of what makes us unhappy: widespread poverty, illness, famine. Yet we are ...

The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk.

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A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Shot through with humour, and poetic intensity, Malouf's epic novel of epic scope is simple, compassionate and universal.

It is the Gold Coast, Queensland, in 1914, and a man returns home from England to claim the land he has inherited. For Ashley Crowther, it is a landscape "that could accommodate a good deal". For Jim Saddler, the land is a sanctuary. For Imogen it is a place of study.

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The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild animals in the snow. It is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature.

A complex history comes down to us, through household jokes and anecdotes, odd family habits, and irrational superstitions, that forever shapes what we see and the way in which we see it. Written with humour and uncompromising intelligence, 12 Edmondstone Street is an unforgettable portrait of one man's life.