Biography - Secondhand

A memoir in which our hero blends autobiography with moral, political and cultural reflections. thoughts about god, evil, suffering, death and tragedy are interwoven with comic or moving scenes from...

The book titled Where I Fell to Earth: A Life in Four Places by the author Peter Conrad. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The idea for Ian Hamilton's unorthodox new book was sparked by a rereading of Samuel Johnson's classic "Lives of the English Poets". Johnson included appraisals of 52 poets, but of...

Award winning journalist Colette Rossnt's charming memoir of growing up in French colonial Egypt filled with her favourite recipes.

Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967) founded Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated. Born in China to missionary parents, Luce was a kind of lay preacher, anxious to mold the American mind...

This is a biography of one of the last of the ideological spies, belonging to the important group the author calls "the Cambridge Comintern". Robert Cecil, a close acquaintance of...

Patrick French has been granted unique access to V.S. Naipaul's private papers and his personal recollections. With great feeling for Naipaul's formidable body of work, he has produced a luminous...

The acclaimed Proust biographer William Carter portrays Proust's amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust's own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations about...

The book titled Princess Remembers: Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur by the author Gayatri Devi. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1947, when Christian Dior's model spun her wasp-waisted skirt and tipped a hat over one eye, the iconic designer became an instant celebrity. His groundbreaking "new look" was quintessentially...

Betty O'Neill grew up knowing very little about her father, Antoni. She knew that he had fled Poland after World War Two, that he had disappeared overnight when she was...

The book titled Finding Herself in Fiction: Henry Handel Richardson 1896-1910 by the author Axel Clark. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A.B. Paterson loved the bush and wrote as bush folk would. It is this that made his poetry popular with them as well as city dwellers. His works still echo...

No. 9 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, formed in 1914, went to the second great war on 4 September 1939. The Squadron's Wellington aircraft and crews were the first to hit...

The book titled The Log of a Cowboy: Narrative of the Old Trail Days by the author Andy Adams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life by the author Richard Garnett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

She makes the case that Ho's significance within the Comintern has been overstated by both leftist and anti-communist scholarship; she shows that there were other forces and personalities who played...

The Welsh people have been part of Australian society since white settlements began two centuries ago, and today, those of Welsh descent, such as and Kylie Minogue, have achieved worldwide...

At the beginning of the nineties Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with Dementia. In Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant tells the story of Rose's illness, and...

A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. It's quite a change from...

An original collection of lauded philosopher Galen Strawson's writings on the self and consciousness, naturalism and pan-psychism. An original collection of lauded philosopher Galen Strawson's writings on the self and...

When Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003 the Economist described him as a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers. Though...

"The anecdotes are wonderful. The Knox Brothersprovides a striking insight into the elusive nature of Fitzgerald's genius."-New York Times.. Here is a biography whose eccentric genius perfectly matches that of...

This superb account of the public and private life of the greatest Englishman of our century makes a rare firsthand contribution to the history of an epoch and to the...

*** See the latest book on this subject: The 2nd Edition, Revised and Enhanced, of the "The Immortal Beloved Compendium: All About the Only Woman Beethoven Ever Loved (Comprehensive Edition)"....

Both as a dancer and a choreographer, Jose Limon electrified audiences from the1930s to the 1960s. With his striking looks and charismatic presence, he was American modern dance's first male...

The author of this book is the first writer to be granted access to the Nabokov archives and his research over the last ten years has taken him from New...

It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes......

In this heartfelt memoir, motivational speaker and life coach Keith Harrell writes passionately about the lessons he's learned from his parents, grandmother, teachers, coaches, mentors, and friends as he overcame...

Corey Mead's The Lost Pilots is the saga of two star crossed pilots who soar to the greatest heights of fame, tailspin into scandal and crime, and go the ultimate...

The book titled Nevertheless: The Incredible Story of One Man's Mission to Change by the author John Kirkby. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

A sequel to Fighter Pilot, which told of Paul Richey's experiences during the first few months of World War II, this book deals with the rest of his war experiences....

Called the greatest art dealer of the century, Kahnweiler introduced such painters as Picasso, Braque, Gris, Leger, and Klee.

The book titled Decolonizing the Subject: Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography by the author Sidonie Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period-from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963--it...

Bobby Charlton is Manchester United through and through. One of the original 'Busby Babes'; he has devoted his career to the club, playing in 754 games over 17 years and...

Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written PICTORIAL GUIDES TO THE LAKELAND FELLS have been an inspiration to walkers for over forty years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three television...

In November 1992 Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr Michael Stroud set out to achieve what no one had ever done: to walk and ski - unsupported - the 2700km across...

The definitive study, in words and pictures, of the Queen Mother. From her happy childhood, through her marriage to the Duke of York and his accession as King George VI,...

"Is even the most clenched heart capable of it?", asks Lauren Slater in this book about love. Slater, career-oriented and wilfully autonomous, charts her own personal journey and decision-making process...

___________________ SELECTIONS FROM GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S POSTBAG ____________________ '...wonderful entertainment' - Julian Symons, SUNDAY TIMES 'Shaw's charm and brilliance pervade this book' - Piers Brendon, OBSERVER '...sparkling celebration of a...

The book titled The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British by the author Anthony Cave Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

David Cairns weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative, which puts Mozart's operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole. Mozart's unusual childhood as...

Russell's letters span 70 years, from the late Victorian age to the 1960s, and range from private love letters to impassioned pleas to political leaders to technical philosophical letters. His...

Using a variety of unpublished and little-known sources, Taylor paints a portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray as an endearing, exasperating and paradoxical individual. This biography sets out to redefine Thackeray...

Al Alvarez, poet, critic, novelist, sportsman, poker player, has for seventy years been hard to categorize. To many, he is the author of the best-selling study of suicide, "The Savage...