David Malouf


David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek, Dream Stuff ('These stories are pearls' Spectator), Every Move You Make ('Rare and luminous talent' Guardian), his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street and Ransom. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award. In 2008 Malouf was the Scottish Arts' Council Muriel Spark International Fellow. He was born in 1934 and was brought up in Brisbane.

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The first grown-up book that I read of my own accord and loved was E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime. I was about thirteen and my school librarian, Mrs Perratai, recommended it to me. I remember she also gave me John le Carre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – which I didn’t enjoy. Thirty or more years on and I can still vividly remember Ragtime. It’s the book that really got...

Feb 4

Vintage Classics A-Z

by Meredith Curnow on 4 February 2012

Choice is a wonderful and sometimes overwhelming thing. If I were a mathematician I could tell you how many variations of lists could be produced for an A – Z of Vintage Classics. I know it would be a very large number. I confess I have taken a few liberties in interpreting the alphabet in this list, thus increasing the possibilities. Oh dear, not very helpful! We hope this list of titles...

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