Biography - Secondhand

Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she...

A monumental work that draws on specially collected oral history to portray fully the person, work and teaching of one of the most important figures in modern Christianity. Francis Schaeffer...

He is Tinseltown's most indestructable sex symbol and hellraiser. In 1997 Jack Nicholson received an Oscar for his starring role in As Good As It Gets. Known for his trademark...

The book William Hague was mad to ignore. Completely updated, acclaimed biography of the extraordinary life of Jeffrey Archer - politician, fundraiser and storyteller. Mary Archer calls it his "gift...

When Ground Shifts is the extraordinary first-hand account of the United Arab Emirates' successful bid to host the first World Exposition ever to be held anywhere in the Middle East,...

Discover how Zendaya conquered the worlds of film, TV and fashion to become the face of a generation. Zendaya is a phenomenon. Beginning as a precocious child star on the...

It's time we celebrated women in adventure What does "toughness" mean to you? Perhaps it's being physically fit and mentally resilient. Perhaps it's doing something no one else has done...

The thrilling autobiography of the astronaut who inspired a generation, from the #1 bestselling author of Hello, is this planet Earth? and Ask an Astronaut The inspirational autobiography of Britain's...

Often compared to Graham Greene, Australia's highest-selling author, Morris West was considered the first Australian author to truly crack the overseas market and he was also the first to create...

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Good Lord Bird," winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, and "Kill 'Em and Leave," a James Brown biography....

The book titled Chaplin: A Life by the author Stephen Weissman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Fearsome wit' Elle 'Charming' Buzzfeed 'Ridiculously entertaining' Associated Press 'Endearingly honest' Guardian A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Pitch Perfect , Twilight...

Lady Fiona Carnarvon became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle - the setting of the hit series Downton Abbey - eight years ago. In that time she's become fascinated by the...

When Jose Mourinho realised as a teenager that he was never going to be a great player, he decided he was going to become the best coach in the world....

The book titled Immersed in God by the author Cesare Cavalleri. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A portrait of Burt Lancaster, which looks at his rise to fame, the setting up of his own production company, the films in which he performed most of his own...

Ten years previously Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son,...

The name of John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester, is synonymous with excess. In this biography, Jeremy Lamb examines time the nature of Rochesters alcoholism and its implications for the...

When Neil Cross was five years old, his mother left him. No note, no phone call, just an empty house and a brow-beaten father. Two years later, she came back...

A major biography of one of the world's most captivating movie stars. Actor, humanitarian, mother, icon: Angelina Jolie is a larger than life character, beautiful, compassionate and fascinating in her...

This is the sixth edition of Greville Janner's guide to speechmaking, which provides advice on preparation, delivery, handling an audience, chairing a meeting, and introducing new speakers, as well as...

Four hundred years after his death, Sir Francis Drake remains one of the most legendary figures of history. His career is one of the most colourful on record. The most...

Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his...

For 22 years, Dr Li was Chairman Mao's personal physician, confidant and companion. He saw Mao and his country through the years of "The Great Leap Forward" and the Cultural...

Tony and Maureen Wheeler established Lonely Planet Publications in the basement of a terrace house in Sydney in 1973, to self-publish a modest travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap....

The book titled There Was a Time: Chronicles of a Railway Family by the author Shirley Jones. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Being denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Serving as a lady's maid to an Empire-loving aristocrat. R aising two...

The book titled Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart by the author Charles Higham. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story -- of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center...

Separated from her brother Bryan, and passed from caretaker to caretaker, Jenny discovers -- as she rebels her way through high school and into adulthood -- that the past can...

This history of classical music, from Bach to Schoenberg, not only unravels the evolutionary patterns of musical development, but reveals the composers themselves - their lives and states of mind,...

He is one of the most controversial and beloved athletes in history, a tennis legend and a volcanic, mesmerizing presence. But after reaching the top of his game - what...

General George Smith Patton came to the fore in the fighting in North Africa and Sicily in 1942 and 1943 as a tough and inspirational field commander who drove his...

Dylan Thomas was a sensation, both as a person and as a poet. His writing - short stories as well as verse - was hugely popular. He broadcast widely on...

A vast, magnificent book about a vast, magnificent man, the first volume of Simon Callow's biography takes us from Welles' birth and prodigious boyhood to Citizen Kane . Pronounced a...

Churchill (1874 1965) was one of the 20th century s most charismatic and controversial figures. He escaped from capture as a prisoner of war in the Boer War, was a...

The book titled Frances, Countess Lloyd George: More Than a Mistress by the author Ruth Longford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

As historian and polemicist, Rowse was deeply involved in many of the key debates of the mid-century. He combined Marxist historiography and keen English patriotism, support for modernism with deep...

Following on from his best selling book Collective Wisdom, Brett Kelly's experiences led him to even more questions - what are you prepared to die for? What are you doing...

By the time of her death in 2003 at the age of 96, Katharine Hepburn had long been an American institution. The following year, Cate Blanchett's striking depiction of Hepburn's...

This is a comprehensive biography of the sun, written by leading BBC journalist David Whitehouse. Since man first became conscious he has sought to understand the nature of the sun;...

The book titled Daddy, We Hardly Knew You by the author Dr. Germaine Greer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

When Michael Holroyd's life of Strachey appeared in 1967, it changed the course of modern biography, setting a new standard for the recounting of literary lives and launching the enduring...

An intimate portrait of Stephen Hawking -- the man, the friend, and the physicist An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius- not since Albert...

"I don't quit. I keep going." -Hillary Rodham Clinton She is, quite simply, the most famous, most complex, most loved/hated/admired/reviled woman -- perhaps person -- in America. And, whether she...