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A Fortunate Man : The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger & Jean Mohr
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Canons
In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred.In A Fortunate Man, Berger's text ...Show more
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger
$23.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A beautiful collection of fragments about time and space 'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless In our brief mortal lives, we are grinde ...Show more
Cave of Bones A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger, John Hawks
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South African caves to discover fossil remains that compel a monumental reframing of the human family tree. In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the ...Show more
Confabulations by John Berger
$16.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Modern Classics
'Language is a body, a living creature ...and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and pol ...Show more
G.: Winner of the Booker Prize 1972: Winner of the Booker Prize 1972 by John Berger
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this luminous novel about a modern Don Juan, John Berger relates the story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the last century as Europe teeters on the brink of war. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and w ...Show more
G: a Novel by John Berger
$30.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Born to an Italian father and his American mistress, G. becomes, in the years before the First World War, a modern Don Juan.
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger
$19.98 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despa ...Show more
Landscapes - John Berger on Art by John Berger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art
A major new work from the world's leading writer on art Landscapes, the companion volume to John Berger's highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves. "Berger's work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways," writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume ...Show more
Portraits John Berger on Artists by John Berger
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art
One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly's radical work ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art
A major new book from one of the world's leading writers and art critics John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated art writers, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In Portraits, Berger grounds the artists in the ...Show more
Return to My Native Land by Aimé Césaire; John Berger (Translator); Anna Bostock (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.' This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the negritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man's return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slave ...Show more
Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger
$33.95 AUD
Category: Art
The writing career of John Berger-poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist-has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger's seminal essays. Berger' ...Show more