Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew British writers of the twentieth century have inspired as much fascination, controversy, and devoted readership as Evelyn Waugh — and Evelyn Waugh and His...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor anyone captivated by the mysteries locked within their own bloodline, Stella Colwell's The Family History Book: A Guide to Tracing your Ancestors is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the feverish boom years of 1880s Melbourne, fortunes were made overnight and lost just as swiftly, as speculators, swindlers, and dreamers rode a tidal...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodLong before the term nature journaling entered the cultural lexicon, Edith Holden was quietly chronicling the world around her with an eye of uncommon beauty...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the gilded formality of the Victorian court lay a monarch of surprising artistic sensitivity — Queen Victoria's Sketchbook by Marina Warner presents a fascinating...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom its founding as a planned free settlement in 1836, Adelaide has grown into one of Australia's most elegant and culturally rich cities —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBeneath the glittering gaslit boulevards of nineteenth-century Paris, a shadowy world of glamour, scandal, and calculated seduction thrived — the world of the grandes...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia stood at a breathtaking crossroads — a vast empire of glittering courts and grinding poverty,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the silent era to the golden age of Hollywood and beyond, The Warner Bros. Story is the definitive chronicle of one of cinema's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhen gold transformed a colonial outpost into a roaring metropolis almost overnight, the city of Ballarat became one of the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFrom the golden roar of Leo the Lion to the final curtain of a studio era that defined Hollywood itself, The MGM Story is the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sweeping wilderness of Tanzania's Lake Manyara National Park, Among the Elephants chronicles one of the most intimate and groundbreaking scientific studies ever...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodThis Time-Life boxed set unites three essential texts on the composer, with Robert Gutman's "Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind and His Music" chronicling the...

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Sue Walker tells the story of her magazine editor grandfather against the larger backdrop of Australian history and cultural growth. William Shum was a pioneer in Australian magazines, as founding...

The book titled The Way We Lived Then: The Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper by the author Dominick Dunne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

'You think you've married a journalist, then, horrors, he becomes a politician.' 'Sarah Vine is the Bridget Jones of politics.' Plum Sykes 'Everyone in Westminster is talking about it.' The...

'Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny - I loved it: a piece of our English history, the story of a vanished time, which feels close at hand but thoroughly...

You tell me we are made of seven billion billion billion atoms. I can feel every one of them as I write this all down. It's a rush to feel...

My mother had died, but still I heard her voice... Growing up in an affluent neighbourhood in 1930s Shanghai, Loo Shu-hsin is told that it is 'no good for a...

Stuart Wood's love of music was ignited at fourteen when he, along with three schoolmates, formed a band. By the time he turned fifteen, he had left school to pursue...

A fascinating and revelatory cultural history of hypochondria, from Hippocrates to wellness influencers - for fans of Andrew Solomon and Siddhartha Mukherjee "There is a twilight zone between illness and...

With a foreword by Viola Davis, award-winning actress Edwina Findley Dickerson presents a faith-filled, laugh-out-loud guide for manifesting your "God Dream" and creating the life you've always envisioned. Were you...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Light yellowing on pages congruent with age.At the heart of the Second World War stands one of history's...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the thick of the Second World War, an Australian journalist...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersOne of the most electrifying combat memoirs...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the annals of Australian military history, few figures loom as large — or as controversially — as...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersBehind the walls of Spandau Prison, one of the most controversial figures of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowy world of wartime espionage, few stories rival the extraordinary courage of Wing Commander F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas — codename: The White Rabbit. Bruce...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of duty, honour, and the brutal machinery of the Second World War stands Johann von Ravenstein — one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadows of the Second World War, a secret army of ordinary men and women was forged into one of history's most daring...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodHe was one of the most controversial and ambitious generals of the Second World War — and Mark Clark is...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the blazing heat of the North African theatre, one BBC war...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most harrowing and unflinching accounts to emerge from the Second World War, The Naked Island chronicles the brutal experiences of Russell...