After exploring the idea of home, where and what it is in A First Place, what does it mean to be a writer and where writing begins in The Writing Life, David Malouf moves on to words and music and art and performance in Being There.

With pieces on the Sydney Opera House - then and now - responses to art, artists and architects, and including Malouf's not previously published libretti for Voss and a translation of Hippolytus, this is an unmissable and stimulating collection of one man's connection to the world of art, ideas and culture.

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‘Malouf is the most serious writer at work in this country.’ DAVID MARR, THE MONTHLY

‘Malouf's principle, to crudely reduce the rich broth of his thought to a single flavour, is that of delight.’ GEORDIE WILLIAMSON, THE AUSTRALIAN

‘Malouf's manner is measured and measuring, quietly or insistently engaging.’ MICHAEL MORLEY, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD