Paperback
Books as medicine: a novelist’s journey through illness and healing.

Reading by Moonlight

How Books Saved a Life

  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    28 March 2011

Summary

Winner of the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction and the 2011 Nita B Kibble Award.

When Miles Franklin-shortlisted novelist Brenda Walker became sick she turned to two healers: doctors and books. This is the story of how she recovered.

Packing her bag for hospital after being diagnosed with breast cancer, Brenda wondered which book to put in. As a novelist and professor of literature, her life was built around reading and writing. Books had always been her …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780143205227
ISBN-10:0143205226
Author:Brenda Walker
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:28 March 2011
Weight:228g
Dimensions:18mm x 130mm x 196mm
A-Format
Reading by Moonlight by Brenda Walker - ISBN: 9780143205227
130 × 196 mm
B-Format
C-Format
A4
mm / in
About The Author

Brenda Walker

Brenda Walker is the author of the novels Crush, One More River, Poe’s Cat and The Wing of Night. The latter won the 2006 Nita B Kibble Award for an established writer and the 2007 Asher Award. It was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Reading by Moonlight, her memoir of reading and healing, won the 2010 Victorian Premiers Award for nonfiction and the 2011 Nita B Kibble Award.

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