Biography - Secondhand

The book titled Freud and His Father by the author Marianne Krull. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From an acclaimed biographer of Lawrence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe comes the definitive biography of Hollywood's most glamorous living legend, the only star from Hollywood's Golden Age who continues to...

The book titled Freud by the author Richard Wollheim. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Malcolm Lowry's classic novel "Under the Volcano" established him as a writer of genius and one of the most original voices of the 20th century. This biography of Lowry looks...

In the summer of 1992, accompanied by Philip Marsden, the exiled poet Zofia Hinska stepped into the Belorussian village where she had spent her childhood. The Bronski House is in...

Based on personal interviews with Solzhenitsyn and his family, Joseph Pearce's major new book provides a profoundly fascinating insight into a towering literary and political figure.

The definitive biography of Cole Porter - the urbane American composer of musical comedies and of over 1000 songs - which reveals the darker side of the star whose life...

The book titled Pierre Loti by the author Lesley Blanch. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was the most glamorous international publisher of his generation, yet he died violently, as a member of an ultra-left group attempting to blow up an electricity pylon. He...

As the son of a noble family which was nearly wiped out in the Revolution and as an ambitious politician during the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, he had...

'Cobb is a rare jewel' - Adam Rutherford Crick was a restless, relentless thinker, as fascinated by Beat poetry and psychedelics as the genetic meaning of life and the inner...

Moura Budberg: spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century's greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure and selfishness....

'A wondrous collection of writings to provoke the Bowie fan into deepening their understanding of the man, not just the myth.' Dave Roberts, God is in the TV zine 'Insightful...

Since being crowned the Northern Businessman of the Year 1993, Keith Lemon has been going from strength to strength and now is regularly seen sandwiched between two bang tidy lasses...

The second and concluding volume of John Fowles's eloquent, revelatory journals, the first of which was widely greeted as a literary landmark (The book is gripping, and one can't help...

The book titled Silk Roads: The Asian Adventures of Clara & Andre Malraux by the author Axel Madsen (Los Angeles, California). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

Often hailed as a "Renaissance man" for the astounding diversity of his activities, Andre Malraux was a living legend long before his death in 1976. Few French writers of this...

The book titled To Live Like Everyone by the author Anatolii Marchenko. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

A collection of Studs Terkel most memorable interviews a panoramic chronicle of America from the 1920's onwards. For over 30 years, millions of readers have enjoyed Studs Terkel's groundbreaking, provocative...

Somerset Maugham? If anybody ever sold their soul to the devil, he did, and with sizzling relish! Stephen Tennant, in a letter to Hugo Vickers. For nearly sixty years Somerset...

Rudyard Kipling was a unique figure in British history, a great writer and at the same time a great imperial icon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature and added...

"What an impossible novel my life is!" Berlioz wrote in 1832 to his friend Albert Du Boys. To his sister Adele, "I am absorbed continually by the strangeness, the romanticness...

The first volume of John Campbell's biography of Margaret Thatcher was praised by Frank Johnson in the Daily Telegraph as 'much the best book yet written about Lady Thatcher'. That...

Fluent in at least seven languages and a writer of ravishing prose accounts of her journeys, Freya Stark was one of the great travel writers of the twentieth century. In...

Acclaimed novelist and essayist Francine du Plessix Gray paints a spirited portrait of a woman who defied the rules and expectations of a misogynistic society to become one of its...

The long-awated biography of one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Although blessed with a magnetic personality and musical brilliance, Britten was wracked by depression and self-doubt. An...

From his recognition by Henry Miller, Anais Nin and T. S. Eliot when he was in his twenties, to the completion of his oeuvre with The Avignon Quintet and an...

This is the autobiography of G. Cabrera Infante, recognized as one of the most original Latin American writers. He has written novels, stories, critical essays, articles and screenplays and has...

The third volume of Alan Johnson's bestselling and award-winning memoirs takes us to the corridors of Westminster and lifts the lid on the life of a hard-working constituency MP... Winner...

A sensitive analysis of the thought and intellectual development of G. D. H. Cole (1889-1959) the distinguished Labour historian. Cole's career is traced from his earliest days in the Labour...

The book titled Deadly Illusions: The KGB Orlov Dossier Reveals Stalin's Master Spy by the author John Costello. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Based on personal letters and interviews with more than 100 of his friends and colleagues, as well as his two former wives, this is a biography of the American photographer,...

Not many people remember that Andre Previn started his career as a film score composer in Hollywood - arriving at the age of 18. He was a quick learner, and...

Peter Parker's biography is as frank and often almost as witty as Ackerley's own books . . . But Ackerley is more than a candid account of one man's public...

Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took its inspiration from a mission...

This work (previously published in two volumes in 1985 and 2000) is a biography of John Ruskin, arguably the most influential 19th-century critic of art and society. Drawing on the...

The book titled The Iron Duke: A Military Biography of Wellington by the author Lawrence James. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century. He was a natural countryman who had a sharp eye for the natural world, a dislike of technology...

The book titled Charlotte Mew and Her Friends: With a Selection of Her Poems by the author Penelope Fitzgerald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Born in Australia, Gilbert Murray came to England at the age of 11. After a brilliant career in Classics at Oxford, he became Professor of Greek at Glasgow at the...

A biography of a remarkable writer - a hero of the 1930s - a panoramic portrait of a troubled century. Seven years after Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the first...

Over ten years in the making, Meredith Daneman has produced the first serious and in-depth biography of the world famous ballerina. Margot Fonteyn began life on the 18th of May,...

The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, Jon Halliday. The most authoritative life of Mao ever written,...

The book titled Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789-1945 by the author Michael Burns. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The book titled The Rise and Fall of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu by the author Mark Almond. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled Picasso and Dora: a Personal Memoir by the author James Lord. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.