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'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Film
Where Eagles Dareis both a thrillingly realized Alpine Second World War adventure with tough, compelling acting from its two great stars, Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, and a flippant travesty, infantilizing the central disaster in Europe's modern history in favour of huge explosions and camp SS off ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage - In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
Sitting down to write a book about his hero D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write. In Sicily he is too preoccupied by his hatred of seafood to follow the great writer's footsteps; in Mexi ...Show more
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer
$49.99 AUD
Category: Photography
A full-colour illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment.
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Photography
An illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment.
Ten Poems about Art by GEOFF DYER
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poems about art have a long and vivid history, and some of our greatest poets have tried to capture in verse the beguiling worlds of colour on canvas. Geoff Dyer's remarkably wide-ranging selection encourages us to look at familiar and unfamiliar paintings and artists with fresh eyes. We find ourselves ...Show more
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this endlessly stimulating investigation into 'things coming to an end, artists' last works, time running out', Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who've mattered to him throughout his life. ...Show more
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings (HB) by Geoff Dyer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'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 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
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger And Geoff Dyer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art | 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 Narrative
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
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