Biography

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...

"[A] remarkable biography....Moorehead deftly wields periods detail...to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the vicissitudes of politics." -- Vogue From acclaimed biographer...

A fascinating intellectual memoir telling the story of one of the world's most respected publishers and the tumultuous political times that shaped him. Beginning with his family's escape from the...

Only a teenager when her beloved father was murdered, shot outside their home by his political opponents, as an adult, Fatima Bhutto longed for a happy family life. And so...

The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer G nter Grass - a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world. Suddenly, in spite of the...

As a young man, James Joyce rejected his country and its religion, but went on to recreate the Dublin of his youth in his fiction. Ulysses was initially banned in...

Traces the life and loves of the eighteenth-century French novelist and writer of operas.

Mixing memoir, history, adventure, folklore and descriptions of the deep, this is a meditation on the excitement and pleasures of fishing. Robert Hughes traces his love of fishing back to...

This book is an answer to the despair of Mark Latham's Diaries. Tom Uren is a child of the Great Depression whose politics were forged by his experience of the...

Ellen Terry was a natural actress who filled the theatre with a magical radiance. The Times called her the uncrowned queen of England but behind her public success lay a...

The book titled Far Journeys by the author Bruce Chatwin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Edward Lear, Victorian author of nonsense verse, was also a water-colourist and a traveller. Lear's sense of humour was contrasted with his severe bouts of depression. Gregarious and popular, he...

In ths biography, Peter Levi analyzes Tennyson's development and his place in literature. He describes his influences, both classical and personal, and illuminates his working methods, for example a constant...

The book titled A Bloomsbury Album: Friends in Focus by the author Frances Partridge. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Jasper Maskelyne was a world famous magician and illusionist in the 1930s. When war broke out, he volunteered his services to the British Army and was sent to Eygpt where...

This biography of Eliot sets her vividly in the political, social and religious context of the time. She arrived in London in 1851, determined to make her way as a...

By uncovering what he claimed to be Homer's Troy and Mycenate, Heinrich Schliemann (1822-90) became one of the dominant personalities of his age. Yet this biography shows him to have...

The book titled Gorbachev by the author Dev Murarka. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A scholarly, passionate and brilliantly-written biography of Pablo Picasso by Patrick O'Brian, the famous author of the much-loved Aubrey-Maturin series, reissued in a stunning new cover. Patrick O'Brian's outstanding biography...

Fourteen Ways of Looking, written in fragments, looks at the year Erin's parents died. It is also the story of a writer reflecting on her life and her grief and...

Goodwin can write as well as she can cook, and this candid memoir had me both in fits of giggles and waterfalls of tears ... I fell a little bit...

Carolyn Brown, one of the most renowned dancers of the last half-century, lived at the center of New York's bold and vibrant artistic community, which included not only dancers and...

Nicola Barry grew up in well-to-do Murrayfield, Edinburgh. Her father was a hospital consultant, her mother was medically trained, her brothers boarders at public school. But behind the closed doors...

An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel...

The book titled Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 by the author Graham Greene. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a biography of Henrik Ibsen. The author's intention has been to get behind the daunting outside image of the dramatist, in order to reveal the story of Ibsen's...

Immensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in...

This beautiful book gives new life to the values and thinking of the Che Guevara behind the legend, a man who was at once sensitive, passionate and determined to pursue...

Beautifully produced and a perfect gift for travellers newly wedded or not - by turn funny, tender, acerbic and charming. Includes extracts from: Paul Bowles, Dorothy Sayers, D. H. Lawrence,...

The first full and authoritative biography of the father of gastronomy. MacDonogh not only chronicles BrillatAIs many pursuits, he also presents a fascinating picture of provincial France under the ancien...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER . The definitive biography of Colin Powell, from his Bronx childhood to his military career to his controversial tenure as secretary of state, with an updated afterword detailing...

The book titled The Passionate Nomad: The Journals of Isabelle Eberhardt by the author Isabelle Eberhardt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1948, Robert Craft would begin a unique friendship with Stravinsky that would last until the composer's death in 1971. This book tells the story of his "improbable life" before,...

The book titled Stalin's Prosecutor by the author Vaksberg. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one of the Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a public image of...

With the imminent television adaptation of the Gormenghast trilogy and the reissuing of his books, interest in Mervyn Peake''s work has never been higher. This biography is the result of...

Robert Byron is best remembered now for The Road to Oxiana. Less well-known is that, like many of his generation, notably Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, he was...

The book titled Thursday's Child Has Far to Go: A Memoir of the Journeying Years by the author Walter Laqueur. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

Seven years after Stephen Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the authorised life of this brilliant, but famously enigmatic, man. Sutherland's account ranges from the depiction of Spender's cosmopolitan family (and...

"Long may he continue to divert us, " said "The New York Times" Book Review on its front page of Robertson Davies

The book titled Andropov by the author Zhores A. Medvedev. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones includes his readings of major...

At the age of 21, a brilliant and highly eccentric graduate student made a major contribution to game theory: John Nash had discovered an influential theory of rational human behaviour....

This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the...

This second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 1912-22, the period in which Lawrence forged his reputation as one of the greatest and...

The book titled Hunter: the Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson: The Strange by the author E. Jean Carroll. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

The book titled Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold by the author Nigel Nicolson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature by the author Anthony Heilbut. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.