Biography

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAustralia's funniest man finally gets his due in The Best of Lennie Lower, a definitive anthology celebrating the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the pen name Carter Brown lived Alan Yates — one of the most prolific and commercially successful crime writers of the twentieth century —...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens when a sharp-witted playwright and mother of four attempts to navigate the gloriously chaotic intersection of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBefore the world knew him as the mute, harp-playing anarchist of the silver screen, Adolph Harpo Marx was a penniless...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated wits and cultural critics comes a collection of essays that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedPatrick Campbell — Ireland's most beloved humorist and one of television's most charmingly hesitant personalities — brings his signature wit and warmth to Fat...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens when an Egyptologist's beloved camel becomes the unlikely heart of a life lived...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodPolitics has rarely been rendered with such warmth and irreverence as in The Politician Who Laughed, a memoir-meets-comedy from one of Australia's most colourful...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodBefore the American West was tamed, one man rode straight into its wild heart and came back with a story that changed travel writing forever. Roughing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedWhat do Maya Angelou, Erica Jong, Jack Lemmon, and Dr. Benjamin Spock have in common? In The First Time, Karl Fleming and Anne Taylor...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerWelcome to St. Swithin's Hospital, where the wards are long, the professors are terrifying, and the path to...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodStep into the muddy, boisterous, and gloriously chaotic world of international rugby with Mike Burton's Have Balls Will Travel, a riotous first-hand chronicle of life on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the grim machinery of war lies a world of larrikin spirit, dark wit, and irreverent camaraderie —...

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey : it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWith a razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye, Mordecai Richler — one of Canada's most celebrated and provocative literary voices — presents a sweeping...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodSome gaffes are too good to forget — and I Could Have Kicked Myself is a glorious monument to the most spectacular blunders, miscalculations, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a freshly minted Oxford-trained anthropologist is dropped into the remote hills of Cameroon with little more than a notebook, good intentions, and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand tradition of British political satire, The Other Half: Further Letters of Denis Thatcher presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the rain-drenched jungles of West Africa to the sun-baked plains of South America, Encounters with Animals presents...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the men who master the skies come down to earth with a laugh?...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA titan of British wit, law, and letters finally turns the lens on himself — the result is a memoir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBritain has always harboured a magnificent gallery of gloriously peculiar souls, and Edith Sitwell's The English Eccentrics chronicles...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingA wit as sharp as a sub-editor's pencil and an eye for the absurdities of everyday Australian life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodKeith Dunstan — one of Australia's most beloved and irreverent journalists — takes readers on an exhilarating two-wheeled journey through decades of passionate cycling...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few soldiers survived the North African campaign with their sanity intact —...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. With the wit of a court jester...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few voices in twentieth-century British journalism crackle with as much irreverent wit...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in British comedy cast as long a shadow as Tony...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. S. J. Perelman — the undisputed master...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Death has always been the great equaliser, but rarely has it been chronicled with such wit...

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A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author's fight to be true to themself WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD Amrou knew they...

'I always wanted kids - but then again, I always wanted a loft conversion. Both are pretty easy to put off as they're very expensive and tend to wreck your...

Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York's cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects...

Lion Attack!is a startlingly original, ambitious work about a young man trying to navigate contemporary Australia and his own life. Part romance, part tragi-comedy, and part social critique, it is...