Biography

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom its founding as a utopian social experiment in 1836 to its centenary and beyond, Adelaide has always stood apart from other Australian cities...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the feverish boom years of 1880s Melbourne, fortunes were made overnight and lost just as swiftly, as speculators, swindlers, and dreamers rode a tidal...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodLong before the term nature journaling entered the cultural lexicon, Edith Holden was quietly chronicling the world around her with an eye of uncommon beauty...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the gilded formality of the Victorian court lay a monarch of surprising artistic sensitivity — Queen Victoria's Sketchbook by Marina Warner presents a fascinating...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom its founding as a planned free settlement in 1836, Adelaide has grown into one of Australia's most elegant and culturally rich cities —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBeneath the glittering gaslit boulevards of nineteenth-century Paris, a shadowy world of glamour, scandal, and calculated seduction thrived — the world of the grandes...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia stood at a breathtaking crossroads — a vast empire of glittering courts and grinding poverty,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the silent era to the golden age of Hollywood and beyond, The Warner Bros. Story is the definitive chronicle of one of cinema's...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodThis Time-Life boxed set unites three essential texts on the composer, with Robert Gutman's "Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind and His Music" chronicling the...

IM Donaldson examines Fischers life and career from his days as a child prodigy through the height of his World Championship triumph and into his tumultuous final years. Donaldsons meticulous...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 IN THE INDEPENDENT, GQ, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND BBC CULTURE When the Going Was Good is Graydon Carter's lively recounting of how he...

Sue Walker tells the story of her magazine editor grandfather against the larger backdrop of Australian history and cultural growth. William Shum was a pioneer in Australian magazines, as founding...

One of England's foremost writers and novelists, there are few authors more beloved than Jane Austen with her observations, wit and style. This Pitkin biography covers her life from childhood...

Paul Keres was a great player in chess history and a contender for the world championship for a third of a century. This work charts the progress of Keres's career...

Ireland's greatest poet, William Butler Yeats, was also perhaps the outstanding poet to have written in English since Wordsworth. Many of his early poems - wistful, mysterious and suffused with...

'You think you've married a journalist, then, horrors, he becomes a politician.' 'Sarah Vine is the Bridget Jones of politics.' Plum Sykes 'Everyone in Westminster is talking about it.' The...

Music Bargain Book Box Sly Stone waited fifty years to explain himself. When he finally did, it won Music Book of the Year. That's the kind of company this box...

'Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny - I loved it: a piece of our English history, the story of a vanished time, which feels close at hand but thoroughly...

'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...

You tell me we are made of seven billion billion billion atoms. I can feel every one of them as I write this all down. It's a rush to feel...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Wise, funny and generous' - The Times 'Warm and perceptive' - New York Times 'So honest and funny and smart' - Observer 'Griffin Dunne...

My mother had died, but still I heard her voice... Growing up in an affluent neighbourhood in 1930s Shanghai, Loo Shu-hsin is told that it is 'no good for a...