Biography

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the fateful year of 1788, eleven ships carrying over a thousand souls — convicts, marines, and officials alike — crossed the vast, unforgiving...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodWhat does it mean to bear witness to an art movement as it unfolds around you? Recent Past:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the rugged wilderness of colonial Australia, where the law was thin and the bush stretched endlessly, a breed of outlaws rose...

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Am I a writer? Where should I get ideas? Is my writing any good? How did my favorite authors make it big? The act of writing is a daunting task...

Award-winning illustrated biography of Hal Foster, in which author Brian M. Kane examines the 70-year career of one of the greatest illustrators of the 20th century. Superman was modelled after...

***A TIMES / SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025*** 'All the no-holds-barred candour you'd expect . . . A hoot, and surprisingly touching' THE TIMES , BOOKS OF THE...

'A timely and moving pilgrimage through Japan's spiritual traditions' RUTH OZEKI, Women's Prize-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'A fascinating dive through hidden layers of the Japanese worldview' KATHERINE MAY, author...

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 AN OPRAH WINFREY AND FEARNE COTTON BOOK CLUB PICK ' No one who reads this book will ever forget it ' Meg Mason...

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'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' Sunday Times , 'Books of the Year' 'A triumph' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times , 'Books of the Year' 'Quietly sacred, utterly...

She Died Young is the literary work of an astonishing mind in which intellect, madness, art and raw honesty unite. It is as far from a 'celebrity memoir' as you...

At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodRenaissance Italy comes alive with menace and beauty in Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait, a gripping historical novel that reimagines the brief, ill-fated life of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the glittering heart of the Abbasid Caliphate, two extraordinary women wielded power that defied the constraints of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn A Fine Anger, Neil Philip delivers a rigorous and illuminating critical study of one of Britain's most enigmatic and celebrated authors, Alan Garner, whose...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the darkest chapter of the Pacific War, a group of Australian nurses found themselves...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the annals of Australia's colonial past, few stories are as dramatic and ultimately tragic as that of Thomas Peel,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn one of the most harrowing true accounts of Jewish survival during the Second World War, The Army-Cap Boy chronicles the extraordinary story of a...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the desolate flatlands of the American...