Biography

Secondhand Science & Ideas Bargain Book Box SP2873 The best popular science thinking of the twentieth century gathered in one box — from Attenborough on the living world to Gould...

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...

When Henry James first visited Venice as a tourist he soon became fascinated by the city, especially the gothic Palazzo Barbaro situated on the Grand Canal and home of the...

This new biography of Peggy Guggenheim charts the life of the infamous, multi-talented art collector and personality. Great-granddaughter of Swiss immigrant Simon Guggenheim, and daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went...

"Oh I DID want to be happy as a woman. But I'm a monster and must accept being one. Not all writers are monsters. But my kind is." Antonia White...

A conscientious objector during World War 1, Basil Bunting worked for British Intelligence during World War 2 but his real forte was writing poetry. In 1994 Oxford University Press published...

Tom Colicchio cooked his first recipe at 13 years old-a stuffed eggplant from an issue of Cuisine magazine that he picked up out of boredom-and it changed his life. Now...

Carl Rollyson's lively and anecdotal investigation of writing about the lives others examines his own practices as well as those of biographers from Samuel Johnson to Richard Ellmann and many...

BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE , WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR "Sayarer's thoughtful, meditative travelogue feels very important . . . [An] exploration of how...

'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT 'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUD Once Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man,...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE MEDAL IN NON-FICTION 'This will be read for many, many years...

In this eclectic selection of biographical sketches Bill Deedes remembers some of the key figures of the twentieth century. Political heavyweights such as Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Anthony Eden...

'A joyous read' Stylist 'Fiercely honest and comforting' Irish Independent 'The book every single woman needs' Rebecca Reid Around 40 per cent of UK adults are single at any one...

Rubenstein uncovers the man behind the controversies, the gifted writer whose life embodied all the tragic dilemmas of a Russian Jewish intellectual under totalitarianism. Journalist, novelist, and poet Ilya Ehrenburg...

"Shoot the Damn Dog" blasts the stigma of depression as a character flaw and confronts the illness Winston Churchill called 'the black dog', a condition that humiliates, punishes and isolates...

Not since Wild Swans has Chinese history been so intimately encountered - through the stories of four sisters born between 1907 and 1914, a renowned historian examines a century of...

Having grown up on the massive Killarney cattle station near Katherine, NT, Toni Tapp Coutts was well prepared when her husband, Shaun, took a job at McArthur River Station in...

Robert Byron, who died young in the War, was the foremost travel writer of his age, acclaimed especially for 'The Road to Oxiana'. He was also a pioneer of Byzantine...

John Worthen tells Lawrence's story from the inside for the first time: following him from his awkward and intense youth in a Midland colliery town, through period in which he...

Tobias Smollett's novels are funny, fast-moving, boisterous and coarse, the fictional equivalent of Hogarth's 'Rake's Progress' or a Rowlandson engraving. Indeed without doubt, Smollett is the most vigorous and entertaining...

Lyndall Gordon investigates the writer's relations with two remarkable women who were close to him, and traces their effect and influence in his work. Both these women haunted James, his...

#1 New York Times bestseller "A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot...

The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its...

Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age. And it was a very long age indeed: he became famous in the mid-1890s and remained so until...

A loving and admiring companion for half a century to literary titan Ezra Pound, concert violinist Olga Rudge was the muse who inspired the poet to complete his epic poem,...

A biography of Thomas Gray, exploring the life of the English poet and our understanding of his personality and influential body of work. Robert L. Mack draws in developments in...

From the time that George Bernard Shaw remarked that "Rebecca West could handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely", West's writings and her politics...

A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in the acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie. 'A Moment of War' is the magnificent conclusion to...

Part biography, part critical appraisal, "The Anti-Egotist" aims to capture the essence of Kingsley Amis as a man of letters. Paul Fussell traces the influences that have shaped Amis's writing,...

Bringing back into Penguin the poems and prose of the extraordinary writer and war poet Edward Thomas - with an introduction from bestselling English writer Robert Macfarlane 'I have come...

The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutions Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb is...

Brodsky's curious, quirky, and brilliant account of his love affair with Venice, new to Penguin Modern Classics 'Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining...

The Letters of William S. Burroughs, new to Penguin Modern Classics and in paperback edition These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years...

'Still the best portrait of modern rural life in England, subtle and compassionate' Roger Deakin, BBC Wildlife magazine This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices...

With a new introduction and editorial apparatus by eminent military historian Hew Strachan In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the...

William Faulkner was a literary genius, and one of America's most important and influential writers. Drawing on previously unavailable sources - including letters, memoirs, and interviews with Faulkner's daughter and...

The fourth title from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands to be taken into care. It's a desperate act, a cry...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2886 Eighteen non-fiction titles spanning natural science, Renaissance art, Medici banking, WWII history, and literary biography — Darwin and da Vinci, Pasteur and...

Everything you need to know about how to grow, harvest and cook fruit from the authority on how to get the best results. Whether you want to know how to...

When the Revolution broke out in 1917, Sergei Golitsyn was just 8 years old. His memoir of the Revolution and the years that followed constitute one of the most powerful...

Edwardian Rambles portrays Henry Atty''s tale nt as an artist and observer of the countryside and towns he visited during his leisure time, alone or with his wife and friends,...

A powerful and riveting condemnation of American slavery, 12 Years a Slave is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, enduring unimaginable degradation...

This highly illustrated, detailed account of Harry and Meghan's relationship celebrates the announcement of their wedding and tells the story of a thoroughly modern royal romance. The book charts their...

The most capped All Black in history speaks for the record about his storied career, spanning four World Cups, nine Super Rugby finals and 153 appearances in the black jersey....