Biography

The book titled Remembering Anna Akhmatova by the author Anatoly Nayman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"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...

This is a biography of American writer Thomas Wolfe by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald. The book follows Wolfe from improbable affairs to drunken brawls, from his mother's "Old...

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...

The book titled Singular Encounters by the author Naim Attallah. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Against the background of major changes, in society, politics, education and literature the author charts the personal lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge and traces the growth of their ideas. It...

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...

The book titled Candide: AND Philosophical Letters by the author Voltaire. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Against the Grain: An Autobiography by the author Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Eric Gill was a typographer and lettercutter whose typefaces still feature in our lives, especially his Perpetua and Gill Sans. He was also a sculptor and wood-engraver. He was a...

#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...

A moving testament to one of the literary world's most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia...

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...

During the height of his own literary acclaim, Ezra Pound became notorious for supporting Mussolini, openly criticizing Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the war, and launching anti-Semitic tirades. Until now the...

In this life of Baudelaire (1821-67) Claude Pichois has drawn on a century's worth of research and scholarship. Baudelaire's short life was a frought one, plagued by disease, impecuniousness and...

The work of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) has become an cultural reference-point. This volume examines the entire range of Arnold's literary, social and religious criticism, as well as his poetry, and...

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,...

This is a fascinating study - part biography, part cultural history - about George Orwell and his literary reputation. No one gained such sudden fame as Orwell did in the...

The book titled Intellectual Memoirs OBE/R by the author McCarthy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Wild Heart: a Life by the author Suzanne Rodriguez. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Franco by the author Juan Pablo Fusi. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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...

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...

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....

The book titled The System: A Life in Soviet Po by the author Georgi Arbatov. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The first full-scale biography of the author of Black Boy and Native Son -- written with the dramatic drive of a novel. "Writing," Richard Wright once said, "is my way...

The book titled Dear Shadows: Portraits from Memory by the author John Wain. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Life of Solitude: Stanislawa Przybyszewska by the author Jadwiga Kosicka. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Surviving: The Uncollected Works of Henry Green by the author Henry Green. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations by the author Walter Laqueur (Center for Strategic and International Studies). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

All writers of fiction should be required by law to go out and do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real...

The delirious kaleidoscope of a book is the culmination and distillation of twenty years' work on Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), the author who remains best known for A Clockwork Orange, the...

A great blonde giant of a man, Gustave Flaubert lived at home with his widowed mother, writing wonderful novels at the rate of five words an hour, escaping to Paris,...

The book titled Malcolm Lowry Remembered by the author Gordon Bowker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and...

The book titled Dornford Yates by the author A.J. Smithers. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A House with Four Rooms by the author Rumer Godden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.