Biography - Secondhand

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST * One woman's searing account of losing her entire family in a tsunami. "The most exceptional book about grief I've...

Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995.

The book titled Dear Sarah Bernhardt by the author Francoise Sagan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The first major biography of the author of "Suite Francaise"" " The posthumous publication of "Suite Francaise" won Irene Nemirovsky international acclaim and brought millions of readers to her work....

In this, the first English biography to capture Gainsbourg in all his contradiction and gleeful outrageousness, Simmons tells the fascinating story of the Gallic star. Drawing on hours of new...

Nigel Nicolson grew up in the world of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsberries, one of three sons of the uncoventional parents, MP Harold Nicolson and his author and bi-sexual wife,...

The romantic and rebellious novelist George Sand, born in 1804 as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, remains one of France's most infamous and beloved literary figures. Thanks to a peerless translation...

This is a rich collection of John Updike's more recent essays, critical writings and reflections. Wide ranging, incisive, witty and always superbly written, "More Matter" has something to say about...

Memories of friends past are as important as, and more sustaining than, memories of times past. Geoffrey Wheatcroft found his thoughts turning again and again to a number of people...

The book titled Notes of a Non-conspirator by the author Allan Wynn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Antonia White is best known for her masterpiece Frost in May, for having come back from Bedlam and madness, and for the public feud between her daughters over the editing...

Bestselling writer Suzy Gershman (dubbed "Super Shopper Suzy" by Oprah) is our answer to Peter Mayle in this heartfelt, breezy, and funny story of starting over in Paris. Suzy had...

Maybe hormones ate her brain. How else did Judith's husband persuade her to give up her career and move from her beloved London to Northumberland with two toddlers in tow?...

A moving work of startling bravery and candour of a family dislocated and united by tragedy, and a beautiful and moving tribute to a son. In July 2012 Thomas Harding's...

In 1960 Jill Ker Conway arrived in America from Australia. This sequel to "The Road from Coorain" tells of her gradual acclimatization to the new continent; her discovery of the...

Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six year old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at an Antarctic research station. As the physician for...

The Inspiration for the New Podcast Featuring Jason Rezaian. "544 Days" is a Spotify original podcast, produced by Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24. The dramatic memoir of the journalist who...

The book titled Writing at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth by the author Artemis Cooper. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

'Elite athletes aren't born. They're made.' Michael Johnson From a living icon of the Olympic Games - as both an athlete and now as a BBC broadcaster - Gold Rush...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. A richly detailed biography, this work chronicles the life of Samuel...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minimal wear. Page Condition: Good, clean pages. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and secure. No stickers or labels visible. A richly collaborative...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears — dust jacket present with some edge wear and minor fading. Page Condition: good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact, hardcover binding...

Condition remarks: Worn but not faded - jacket still in good condition. In this essential counter-narrative, Vladimir Lakshin offers an intimate and piercing defense of Alexander Tvardovsky, the celebrated editor...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minimal wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact and firm. A landmark work of literary biography, Wilfred Owen:...

Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minor wear to edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and secure. A richly detailed work...