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Moving freely between a detailed life-story and attempts to understand significant questions, this biography of Virginia Woolf addresses topics such as the impact of her childhood, the cause and nature...

'Lewis' eccentric memoir-cum-biography will be read long after Burgess' own works have vanished into oblivion.' Mail on Sunday 'There are passages of such brilliance - especially when he rails against...

Henry Yorke led a double life. Under his own name he was managing director of his father's engineering company; as Henry Green he was the author of some of the...

A collection of fourteen essays originally presented at a conference honoring pioneering feminist art historian Linda Nochlin. A number of today's most prominent historians of modern art and visual culture...

Defender of Manet and the other Impressionists, supporter of Zola and Rodin, Stephane Mallarme is nowadays regarded as one of the key figures of Modernism. Yet the man himself has...

This text examines Manet's relationships with his parents, with his secret adopted son and with his wife and lovers. Also covered are his friendships with Beaudelaire and Zola. He emerges...

Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle, deep within Japanese-held territory. Among the...

The book titled Herbert Read: The Last Modern by the author James King. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"A Life of Picasso Volume 1" was hailed as the finest biography of an artist ever published. Ecstatic reviews were accompanied subsequently by the Whitbread Prize for Biography. The book...

Streeton's letters express his interests and anxieties about his work, show his development from a romantic youth to a weary old man, and provide an insight into Australian society and...

Vincent O'Sullivan draws on a large collection of personal papers, official records, and contemporary memoirs for this vivid portrait of a man who remains enduringly fascinating, emblematic of so much...

The book titled Shelley: The Pursuit by the author Richard Holmes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD Part of a radical new series - edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Gilchrist's 'The Life of...

Ford's novel, "Parade's End", has been acknowledged as one of the great British novels about World War I. This book features a selection of Ford's other writings about the war,...

From the only author ever to have won both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize (Britain's leading prize for non-fiction) comes a dazzling collection of writing, essays, articles...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works--and really doesn't--in A Fighting Chance As...

"This is my story, the story of an Arab woman. It is the story of a lost world. It begins in 1917, in Lebanon, when I was seven years old."...

In 2003, a self-described 'sedate and white-haired Italian economist' decided to volunteer in a Palestinian refugee camp. What followed were repeated trips, documented in these letters, to Aida Camp in...

A portrait of Grant's public and private life depicts his childhood in Ohio, military career, and experiences in the Civil War.

A memoir of writer Mehta's thirty-three years of work with The New Yorker magazine's editor William Shawn

Written at Rock Hudson's request and with the cooperation of his closest friends, this is the definitive portrait of one of Hollywood's most enduring stars.

Born Nikolai Pewsner into a Russian-Jewish family in Leipzig, Nikolaus Pevsner lived through turbulent years in Germany as a child. Despite his early ambitions to be an artist, he embarked...

The book titled Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by the author James Knowlson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Evelyn Waugh was not only one of the foremost novelists of his generation, he was also one of the last great practitioners of the art of letter writing. This previously...

The book titled The Wilder Shores of Love by the author Lesley Blanch. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

WINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZE 2006 Anthony Burgess has always attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is admired for his literary novels, but known to a wider...

The book titled Through a Window: Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe by the author Jane Goodall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction-a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He...

A collection of correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke, Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetayeva. Published for the first time in English, these 49 letters examine their thought and work, the nature...

A biography of the 20th-century's most famous woman writer - winner of the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography.

Impressionist Quartet draws us into the inner lives of a core group of mid-nineteenth-century artists-Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, and Berthe Morisot-known, collectively, as the "Impressionists." Derided by critics,...

The book titled Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait by the author Henry Green. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A delightful and uniquely imaginative tribute to the Bard, incorporating biography, theatrical history, and a vivid recreation of the Elizabethan age. Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject...

Instant New York Times Bestseller "A masterwork. ... O'Connor answers every question, deftly and deeply, that we've had about the most controversial person in America's biggest game." -Peter King Four-time...

What are the odds of two people meeting, falling in love, marrying, divorcing, after which both fall into depression and attempt suicide, then reuniting, remarrying and building a happy life...

A revealing biography of Tito, the Yugoslav leader who was a partisan against the Germans and the first Communist head to break with the Soviet Union, considers his role in...

The book titled Woman in the Mists: Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of by the author Farley Mowat. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

On July 1997 the skiing village of Thredbo was devastated by a landslide that swept away two ski lodges, burying 19 people under tonnes of debris. There was only one...

A New York Times Bestseller An Economist Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award) Edmund de...

The first unbiased and full biography of today's most famous yet controversial religious figure.There are few living saints in our increasingly materialistic age yet mother Teresa, As champion of the...

Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq to become 'the Oskar Schindler of Asia'. Robin de Crespigny's The People...

Bob Hawke ranks as one of Australia's leading prime ministers. He enjoyed extraordinary electoral success, winning four elections and serving for eight years and nine months, a term exceeded only...

This Is Not A Love Song is a memoir about mental health ... and love. It intertwines the raw, personal soul-searching of a young woman with a 'stranger-than-fiction' psychological thriller....

Buchan vividly and affectionately describes the writer whose novels and poems made him the most popular author of his day. Scott was born in 1771 to a powerful Border family....

'Like The Queen's Gambit , this isn't really about chess, but power ... Shahade is up for the fight' Sunday Times What does it take to make it to the...

The distant relationship between a son and his father is explored in this memoir. Only after his fatherAs death does Bernard Marin begin to discover who his father really was...

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