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Contact!: A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In "Contact!", Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating the people who helped spark her view of the wo ...Show more
Conundrum by Jan Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations and discoveries. On first publication in 1974, the book ...Show more
Coronation Everest by Jan Morris
$21.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Coronation Everest offers a breathtakingly intimate evocation of the most famous of all mountaineering exploits - and of perhaps the last great old-fashioned Fleet Street scoop.'It was Morris who broke the news that a British-led expedition had conquered Mount Everest the day before the Queen's coronati ...Show more
Europe - An Intimate Journey by Jan Morris
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Europe has been widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of 'one of our greatest living writers' (The Times). A personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, this is Jan Morris at her best - at once magisterial and particular, whimsical and profound. It is a matchless portrait o ...Show more
In My Mind's Eye - A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Celebrated as the "greatest descriptive writer of her time" (Rebecca West), Jan Morris has been dazzling readers since she burst on the scene with her on-the-spot reportage of the first ascent of Everest in 1953. Now, the beloved ninety-two-year-old, author of classics such as Venice and Trieste, embark ...Show more
In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
$9.75 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4s BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Morris is one of Britain's greatest living writers.' The Times'Fascinating ... valuable and rare. This book is a writer's constitutional.' Kate Kellaway, Observer'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth dec ...Show more
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