Biography

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became 'Mr West Ham': a one-club man...

Throughout his life, clothes have provided an outlet through which journalist Teo van den Broeke understands both himself and the world around him. From the blue princess dress he coveted...

'Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world' Barack Obama THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE...

The Adamsons' public image, mediated through their books and films, was one of loving co-operation in a second Eden. The reality, as revealed in this book, was much more interesting...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the windswept plains of Patagonia to the war-torn streets of Kabul, Bruce Chatwin's What Am I Doing Here presents a dazzling...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes The Great World, a sweeping and profoundly human novel that binds two men together across...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: signed bookplate. In the sun-scorched landscapes of twentieth-century Australia, Harland's Half Acre chronicles the life of Frank...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it mean to belong to a place — to feel its soil beneath your feet, its stories threaded through your...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSpanning three transformative decades of Australian literary life, David Malouf's Poems 1959–89 presents a sweeping...

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Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in American history embodied contradiction as magnificently as Daniel Edgar Sickles — congressman, adulterer, killer, and one-legged Civil...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: unclipped dj. In the mud and fire of fifteenth-century France, a teenage peasant girl hears the voice of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: SignedAgainst all odds and with an indomitable spirit, a young boy in rural Australia refuses to let polio define...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

In this brilliant new book, one of the world's leading restaurateurs shares wit and wisdom from a distinguished 40-year career and offers deep insight into some of life's most intriguing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most intimate firsthand accounts of a revolutionary in flight, With Trotsky in Exile: From Prinkipo to Coyoacán chronicles seven tumultuous years...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn a literary landscape dominated by towering male voices, Evelyn Waugh's complex, often contradictory portrayals of women stand as one of the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhen Cyclone Tracy tore through Darwin on Christmas Eve 1974, it left behind a city in ruins and a nation in shock — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent spring of 1958, France stood on the precipice of collapse — its government paralysed, its empire fracturing, and its army in...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe was the most beautiful woman in the world — a tobacco farmer's daughter from North Carolina who became one of Hollywood's most luminous...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of faith, politics, and power, Tom Driberg's The Mystery of Moral Re-Armament presents a penetrating and often...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodOne of history's most audacious true stories of survival and defiance, the remarkable account of Mary Bryant — born Mary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAnthony Powell — one of Britain's most celebrated novelists and the mastermind behind the monumental twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the tradition of great Central European literature, Moonrise, Moonset presents one of Poland's most celebrated writers at his most searingly introspective — a man...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the twilight of an empire, Russia Under the Last Tsar presents a sweeping and incisive portrait of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA vivid portrait of a nation in transformation, People Politics and Pop: Australians in the Sixties chronicles the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of one of the twentieth century's most profound moral and political battles stands a story...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadowy world of America's most discreet profession, Beverly Harrell reigned as the country's number one Madame...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the carefully maintained silence surrounding the world's oldest profession, one woman dares to speak — and what...

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