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Leon Vaudoyer (1803-1872) was, with Felix Duban, Henri Labrouste and Louis Duc, one of the "romantic" beaux-arts architects who challenged both the authority and the philosophy of the French Academy...

"Penguin Illustrated Lives" is a series of photographic biographies that offers a fresh, intimate portrait of some of our favourite writers. An incisive, lively text is accompanied by over 100...

'We jumped in at the deep end and bought a farm! A reluctant wife, a couple of crazy kids and a husband whose knowledge of farming you could write on...

Exactly what it says on the tin: short, first-hand accounts of what it actually feels like to walk on the moon or be struck by lightning; to participate in an...

Jane Austen's nephew James knew her fondly as Aunt Jane when he was a child, attended her funeral in Winchester Cathedral as a young man, and wrote this memoir of...

The book titled The Archaeology Of V Gordon Childe by the author Harris, David R. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The National Portrait Gallery's "Character Sketches" series provides biographical sketches of a specific group of historical figures from the Gallery's collection of portraits. Each volume examines the public images and...

In 2019, climate activist Charlie Hertzog Young attempted suicide, following a succession of breakdowns. He jumped off a six-storey building, resulting in the loss of both legs. He spent a...

'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe 'A remarkable book' - The Telegraph A gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and...

Peter Purves Smith in the early 1940s was considered one of Australia's three most promising young artists (the others were his friend Russell Drysdale and the Sydney painter William Dobell)....

Capa, a Hungarian, was driven from his country by political oppression and became the greatest war photographer of his generation with his work during the Spanish Civil War. His work...

One woman's story of reaching the crossroads of life--and finding happiness in the last Shangri-La, Bhutan Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and...

For fans of books like Waiter Rant , and all those who have always wondered how the other half lives, comes this heartfelt, laugh-out-loud memoir from a New York City...

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized...

ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN. OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING. THE STORY OF ONE CHILD SHE COULD NEVER FORGET. Seven-year-old Reece is the last of six siblings to be taken into foster...

'Kuper is a shrewd observer in this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting...

Nightime Meditations for Peace of Mind.

The book titled Michelangelo: His Life, Work and Times by the author Linda Murray. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"VIETNAM My Great Escape" takes you on a journey through war torn Vietnam to the streets of Melbourne. From peasant refugee to millionairess with all the twist and turns that...

A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home. Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books...

"You're studying to be a lawyer then...?" "No, not a lawyer either! "Not a doctor, not a lawyer, then maybe a businessman? You want to go into business. You'll be...

Everyone knows Jackie Chan . Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda , Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers for his acrobatic...

An icon. A household name. One of our best-loved actors. Noni Hazlehurst is finally telling a story of her own. A fourth-generation performer, Noni Hazlehurst has storytelling in her blood....

From the romance of 1950s Sydney to the sleazy bars of 1990s Saigon; from outback Australia to central London; from Barbarella boots to barefoot pirates; from love at first sight...

'Down Under' made Men at Work the biggest band on the planet in the early 1980s. The band split soon after, but 'Down Under' never stopped working. It became an...

The author's captivating account of how she and husband Graeme Blundell dropped out with style. Exchanging the soy milk lattes and eternal traffic snarls of the city for the delights...

A celebration of the positive by a well-known travel writer, this autobiography sets forth the author's views on the pleasure principle, among many other things. Jan Morris has written and...

The book titled Worlds Greatest Football by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Marches Past by the author Peter Fuller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The memoirs of 23 locomotive enginemen from Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, complemented by 200 magnificent colour and black & white photographs, most never before published. In the...

The book titled Letters by the author Francois Truffaut. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives by the author Sebastian Faulks. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante by the author Lily Tuck. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Hilarious and harrowing, and hard to put down' Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking 'Might be a career-destroying book... highly enjoyable' Daily Telegraph 'A spin doctor to the...

A rediscovered classic memoir - the scintillatingly witty account of one extraordinary woman's life during a turbulent century 'A voice so vivid it seems impossible that it should ever have...

Rosso Fiorentino is one of the most original and difficult painters of the entire Renaissance period, and a crucial figure among the so-called Mannerists. This account of the life and...

The Only Girl in the World is an inspiring testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Maude Julien's childhood was defined by the iron grip of her father, who...

Major Matthew Carr is a professional soldier who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. When faced with a cancerous invasion of his body, Matthew used the expert training he learnt...

The follow-up to the 2 million-copy-selling Losing My Virginity, documenting the incredible last twenty years in Sir Richard Branson's life. PAPERBACK EDITION FULLY UPDATED WITH TWO NEW CHAPTERS After creating...

The book titled The Life and Times of Monet by the author Edmund Swinglehurst. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The architecture of the Edwardian period and of the 1920s and 1930s is of growing interest to a new generation of architects and historians. The career of W.D. Caroe spanned...

A study of the life and work of the painter Simone Martini (c.1284-1344) who was well-respected during his life-time but subsequently was considered less important than Giotto and his followers....

'Akira Mizubayashi is a man whose dog, Melodie, taught him what it means to be human.' RAIMOND GAITA Melodie is the heartfelt memoir of a Japanese man's life with his...

The story of the monk who experimented with peas in his monastery has all the highs and lows of great fiction. Mendel was a man of nervous constitution (whenever he...

Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the...