Biography

The book titled The Moscow Art Theatre Letters by the author Jean Benedetti. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The definitive biography of one of the most important American writers and cultural intellectuals of the twentieth century--Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece "Invisible Man." In 1953, Ellison's explosive story...

In 1945 Isaiah Berlin, working in Russia for the British Foreign Office, met Anna Akhmatova almost by chance in what was then Leningrad. The brief time they spent together one...

Harold Nicolson, born in the late Victorian age, scion of a privileged family, was a man of extraordinary talents. As a diplomat a glittering career beckoned - an Embassy certainly,...

New York Times Bestseller "Probably the best book on living with anxiety that I've ever read." - Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of...

A unique exploration of acclaimed writer D.H. Lawrence's intimate relationships with women and men and how those relationships affected his work and his provocative theories of love. Feinstein's research and...

The product of the author's lifetime, this powerful narrative, insterrsperses the author's analysis of wars, philosophy, science, manners, sex, religion, morals, art, et al, from the Reformation to the present...

Backed up by previously unpublished papers and interviews with Brecht's colleagues and many lovers, this biography argues that Brecht was not in fact the author of the plays which have...

The book titled Selected Letters: v. 2 by the author Marcel Proust. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Every twenty-nine days, Emma Hardy becomes angry, monstrous and out of control. Then it passes, and she forgets about it. Until it cycles around again, of course. When a doctor...

Life lessons for us all- Going to the Mountain is a a book about Ndaba Mandela's unforgettable time growing up with, and learning from, one of the greatest leaders the...

Pope John Paul II was born in a small village in southern Poland and originally wanted to write plays. In World War II he repeatedly escaped German round-ups of young...

The book titled Remembrance by the author Faith Richmond. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Conversations With Myself is a moving collection of letters, diary entries and other writing that provides a rare chance to see the other side of Nelson Mandela's life, in his...

New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when a room we're in is no longer a room where...

'The final step to equality has to be turning the menopause into a topic we can happily discuss, and even celebrate. In these pages, Christa D'Souza puts us firmly on...

Delve into the captivating human story behind the Back In Motion Health Group, revealing the exhilaration and heartache of an entrepreneur's quest from humble start up to a $100m ASX...

The fighter, the activist, the man, the icon. An officially authorized collection, Muhammad Ali Unfiltered is Jeter Publishing's intimate look at one of the most inspiring figures of our age....

CHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST NATURE WRITING BOOKS OF 2024 'A beautiful book' Greg James There's no love quite like that between a dog and their human....

Every Thursday for nearly a decade, Nagiub Mahfouz's brief column of recollection, refelction, and comment has appeared in the Al-Ahram Weekly. This celebratory volume, published on the occasion of the...

In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and...

FAMILY BUSINESS is not only a personal glimpse into the life of one of the great US poets, but also the moving story of a relationship between a father and...

The life of William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon is shrouded in mystery. There is no record of his having received an education, buying a book, or writing a single poem or...

Deidre Le Faye has edited this completely revised and expanded edition of W. and R.A.Austen-Leigh's 1913 biography of Jane Austen, long out of print but still widely regarded as the...

Black Livingstone is the first book to chronicle the remarkable life of William Henry Sheppard. As a twenty-four-year-old African American missionary in 1890, Sheppard departed for what was then the...

The book titled Golden Lilies by the author Kwei-li Liu. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

By the New York Times 's legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the unlikeliest...

"A soaring biography. . . meticulously researched, elegantly organized, fluidly, lucidly written." --Chicago Tribune At the time of his death in 1926, Antonio Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect...

A joyous celebration of Britain's rich bird life In Birdland , journalist and lifelong birder Jon Gower explores our intimate connection with the bird life around us. From the symphonic...

Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book Prize A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book The captivating true...

A New York Times Editors' Choice One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "A beautifully wrought ode to life...a precious gift to the world." - The Washington Post From...

The book titled Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind: The Zen Journals and Letters of an Irish by the author Maura O'Halloran. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The book titled Sarich: The Man and His Engines by the author Pedr Davis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern by the author Dennis Looney. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The eleven essays in this volume examine Kapleau's pivotal role in the transmission of Zen to the West. Kapleau's book The Three Pillars of Zen, was first published in 1965...

The book titled The Antonia White Diaries by the author Susan Chitty. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Sartre: A Life by the author Solal Annie Cohen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J. P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1905 to organize his rare book and manuscript collection, she had...

Offers a new approach to the life and work of Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Drawing on the recent discovery of many of her letters, the book examines the intricate network of...

A behind-the-scenes look at the hugely popular and often controversial world of women's tennis featuring such household names as Venus and Serena Williams and Anna Kournikova. At a time when...

The book titled Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook by the author Timothy Findley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A Stranger in Tibet: Adventures of a Zen Monk - Life of Kawaguchi Ekai by the author Scott Berry. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...

Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughteris an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, orself-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst...

'I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and...

In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the...

In 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project that 'by definition, he could never live to complete', as translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword. The Book Against...