Biography - Secondhand

A brilliant and very readable critical biography of, according to the author, 'the greatest single imaginative genius of the nineteenth century'. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. 'I have...

The book titled Daniel Barenboim: A Life in Music by the author Daniel Barenboim. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Fritz Lang, director of films such as "Metropolis", "M" and "The Big Heat", established his reputation in Germany during the silent era. When Hitler rose to power, Lang emigrated to...

John Updike considers it one of the less elevated impulses, Norman Mailer sees it as an inevitable conflict, Wallace Stevens saw it as one of the greatest aspects of literature....

Boris Becker shot to fame in 1985 when at seventeen years old, he became the youngest player ever to win the men s final at Wimbledon. He went on to...

Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia-three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different,...

The book titled The King of Inventors: Life of Wilkie Collins by the author Catherine Peters. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has become one of the world's most enduringly beloved composers. Ranging from "Swan Lake" to "Eugene Onegin", from the "Pathetique" to "Romeo and Juliet", his work is...

Celebrated author James Buchan breathes new life into Adam Smith's legacy and the beginnings of modern economics. The Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the...

The book titled Truffaut: a Biography by the author Antoine de Baecque. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale by the author Miranda Seymour. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A major new biography of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a unique figure in British history, a great writer as well as an imperial icon whose life trajectory matched...

The book titled Hume by the author Nicholas Phillipson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

John Sutherland has picked out over 100 biographies from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to create this lively anthology of a selection of the most prominent figures in British 20th-century...

It has been Gorky's great misfortune to be remembered mostly for the wrong things - for his apparent support of the Stalin regime; for his direct involvement in the foundation...

With a new introduction and editorial apparatus by eminent military historian Hew Strachan In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the...

Only edition of the letters available Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen...

The book titled Rosenberg Suzanne : Soviet Odyssey by the author Suzanne Rosenberg. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This record of a childhood spent in the ritual-filled, privileged days of Persia before Khomeini, evokes a civilization shaken to dust by the 1979 revolution. It is an account of...

Marshall Hall was a spectular figure in many of the most famous murder trials staged at the Old Bailey. His powers of oratory and cross-examination made him a widely-sought advocate,...

The book titled Goodbye Lizzie Borden: The Story of the Trial of America's Most Famous by the author Robert Sullivan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

This is a reassessment of Emperor Hirohito's reign and a social portrait of the 20th-century transformation of Japan. Hirohito was one of the longest reigning monarchs in world history. Coming...

Whilst no one would dispute Richard Wagner's ranking amongst the most significant composers in the history of Western music, his works have been more fiercely attacked than any other composer's....

Through the lives of three different women - grandmother, mother and daughter - this book tells the story of 20th-century China. At times scarcely credible in the details it reveals...

Chronicles the author's life in the mid-1960s, when she was struggling to come to terms with existence after the deaths of both her husband Ralph and her son Burgo. Coping...

The book titled Too Long in the Bush by the author Len Beadell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Safranski's book stands out from all previous books on the thinker who spent the last years of his life in the seclusion of madness and who is still seen by...

The true story of Charles Darwin's voyage aboard the Beagle and the most ironic and melancholy fate of its Captain Robert FitzRoy The early nineteenth century was a heroic age...

She was among 'the most brilliant dramatic stars of our time', according to Franz Liszt, and billed as 'the most talked of opera singer in Europe'. Dickens - reduced to...

This book features introductions by Dr. Keith Carabine, Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.). 'I have tried with an almost filial regard to render the vibration of life in...

If a bad attitude could be subject to copyright, my ten years as a waiter would have left me obscenely wealthy. Working the floor, I was the Kerry Packer of...

Shockingly honest, richly detailed, and pulling no punches, Friends and Enemies traverses the highs and lows of Barbara Amiel's storied life in journalism and high society. From her early childhood...

In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes the arrangement to his brother Georges as a "functional" marriage. Meanwhile, an intense intellectual love affair develops...

Knit Your Way to Hollywood isn't just the story of Lois Ramsey's colourful career on stage, film and television. Through Lois' satiric eyes it's also the hilarious and moving story...

A biography of Rosa Luxemburg, co-founder of the first Polish Narxist worker's party. A dynamic public figure, she was a powerful revolutionary, and a renowned theorist and speaker. This is...

In this original memoir following Billy Idol from his childhood in England to his fame at the height of the punk-pop revolution, the iconic superstar tells the real story behind...

The book titled At the Heart of a Tiger: Clemenceau and His World, 1841-1929 by the author Gregor Dallas. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

This biography of the great historian fills in the considerable gaps left by Taylor's autobiography, in particular the details of his turbulent personal life and three marriages, and traces his...

The book titled Isolina by the author Dacia Maraini. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From his emergence in the 1950s - when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared on the West Coast and became, seemingly overnight, the prince of 'cool' jazz -...

An autobiographical "period piece" describing the events that led to the author's meeting and work with Jung and to her becoming a committed Jungian analyst. Her memoirs then portray her...

Here is Leonard Bernstein, full scale and fully alive - the child prodigy, the man, the composer, the teacher, the hugely charismatic personality, the lover, the American folk hero. Everything...

Frederick Ashton, one of the greatest choreographers in the history of dance, forever changed the landscape of English ballet, defining what we now know as the English classical style. Julie...

During the 1950s and 1960s, W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman spent their summers on Ischia in the Gulf of Naples, at a time when the island had not yet been...

Written in spare, elegant prose, 'THE SEXUAL LIFE OF CATHERINE M.' is the autobiography of a well-known Parisian art critic who likes to spend nights in the singles clubs of...