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Osbert Sitwell, with his siblings Edith and Sacheverell, was at the heart of every literary fracas from 1918 to until well after 1945. He was a close friend and sometime...

Since 1948, the USSR had dominated the World Chess Championships - evidence, Moscow claimed, of the superiority of the Soviet system. But then came Bobby Fischer.A dysfunctional genius, Fischer was...

'The wheat is beautiful, but human life is labour' Trekking across the English countryside, the nineteenth-century nature writer Richard Jefferies recorded his responses to everything from the texture of an...

The artistic work of Leo Tolstoy has been described as 'nothing less than one tremendous diary kept for over fifty years'. This particular 'diary' begins with Tolstoy's first published work,...

The book titled The Perfect Stranger by the author P. J. Kavanagh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled In Full View by the author Lily Brett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West. On February 3, 1889, just two days shy of her forty-first birthday,...

Why We Travel asks why humans yearn to travel, what motivates us and what we can gain from venturing out into the world. INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024 Good...

Ciaran O Nuallain's memoir of his brother Brian O'Nolan (1991-66), the only major source on the early life of the man who later achieved literary fame as Flann O'Brien and...

The book titled Ivy by the author Hilary Spurling. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Prof. Barlow's fine biography, based on the original sources and informed by the most recent scholarship, provides a compeling interpretation of the life of Becket- worldly courtier, zealous prelate and...

War Paint is the story of two remarkable women - Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein. Between them they left an extraordinary legacy which touches the lives of virtually...

One of the most original and influential figures in twentieth century literature, Virginia Woolf has paradoxically become known as much for her personality as her writing. In this new biography...

The book titled Hemingway: The Paris Years by the author Michael S. Reynolds. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This new biography focuses on the maturing Hemingway when fame is hitting full force the years between A Farewell to Arms and the writing of For Whom the Bell Tolls....

D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Paris, the relentless drive through Germany toward Allied victory--Omar Bradley, the "GI General," was there for every major engagement in the...

The book titled Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confession of Thomas Griffiths by the author Andrew Motion. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern by the author Sir Isaiah Berlin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

The book titled Noel Coward: The First In-Depth Biography of One of the Most Magnetic by the author Clive Fisher. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

One of the New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages...

At age seven, Graham Rundle was taken by his father for a 'holiday' to Eden Park, a Salvation Army boys' home outside Adelaide. As soon as his father left, Graham...

W. Macmahon Ball was a seminal figure in the development of the discipline of political science in...

"My Lords, The several Goals and Places for the Confinement of Felons in this Kingdom being in so crouded a State ... I ... signify to your Lordships His Majesty's...

As the new Scout District Commissioner, he officiated in welcomes to the then Queensland Head Scout Governor Henry Abel Smith, and Lady May. Les died -- on 11 December 2000...

The book titled With Dew on My Boots by the author Colin Thiele. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Dick Cheney is the most powerful yet most unpopular vice president in American history. He has thrived alongside a president who, from day one, had little interest in policy and...

I had been looking for someone to write to for a long time, but how does a man write letters to a god? From his Mediterranean garden on the island...

The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could change In the 1960s, Donald Horne offered...

To many Australians, Bob Brown remains a beacon of hope. Hope for a better environment, hope for a more compassionate Australia, hope for a better world. Bob Brown: Gentle Revolutionary...

The book titled A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War by the author Laurie Lee. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 "As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" ( The Economist ), the incredible true story--part...

Living alone on a remote mountain in the harsh Australian bush would not be every woman's choice. In fact, Sharyn Munro has so often been asked, 'Why do you live...

Not since A.L. Rowse published his memoir On Historians has such a witty and perceptive memoir been published by a celebrated historian. Captain Professor constitutes the memoir of one of...

The book titled Richard Meinertzhagen: Soldier, Scientist and Spy by the author Mark Cocker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Captain Robert N. Buck retired from TWA after having flown well over two thousand Atlantic crossings and thirty-seven years of service as chief pilot and director of thunderstorm research. During...

The story of Zelda Sayre, a talented and beautiful Southern belle who captured the heart of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book recounts the lives of a couple who symbolized...

In her brilliant fictional biography, The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields created an astonishing portrait of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a modern woman struggling to understand her place in her own life....

The book titled Saturday at M.I.9: History of Underground Escape Lines in N.W.Europe by the author Airey Neave. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Written over twenty years ago, The Restless Heart was the product of a lonely young man searching for meaning to his feelings of emptiness and isolation. Powerful and autobiographical this...

Leo Tolstoy(1828-1910) was born into one of the grand old families of Imperial Russia. The loss of both of his parents during childhood was the prelude to a series of...

The book titled Gorillas in the Mist by the author Dian Fossey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important...

Concluding the trilogy that started with the bestselling memoir First They Killed My Father , Loung Ung describes her college experience and her first steps into adulthood, revealing her struggle...

The book titled Orwell by the author Raymond Williams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book recounts the full range of Theodore Von Karman's scientific and social accomplishments. Regarded as one of the fathers of supersonic flight, Von Karman pioneered the use of applied...

A semi-autobiographical novel that attacks Victorian era hypocrisy as it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published,...

Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected spy - this is the fascinating story of the scandalous Freddie McEvoy. Born in Melbourne in 1907, Freddie's...