Biography

'If you stay alive long enough, people eventually catch up' Born in rural Georgia in 1947, Jayne moved to New York and became part of the 60s art scene surrounding...

Stuart Wood's love of music was ignited at fourteen when he, along with three schoolmates, formed a band. By the time he turned fifteen, he had left school to pursue...

A fascinating and revelatory cultural history of hypochondria, from Hippocrates to wellness influencers - for fans of Andrew Solomon and Siddhartha Mukherjee "There is a twilight zone between illness and...

'What you into?' 'I can host if ur looking?' 'What you into?' 'Do you like straight married men?' 'What you into?' 'Wanna meet in the bushes at the park?' So...

With a foreword by Viola Davis, award-winning actress Edwina Findley Dickerson presents a faith-filled, laugh-out-loud guide for manifesting your "God Dream" and creating the life you've always envisioned. Were you...

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP2989 Eleven military history titles covering two world wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Burma Railway, and the secret origins of the First World War. All...

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP2988 A strong collection of fifteen military history titles covering Vietnam, Korea, Gallipoli, the Western Front, SAS operations, submarine warfare, and more — including...

Secondhand Australian Military History Bargain Book Box SP2986 Eight illustrated volumes covering the Australian experience in both World Wars — from Gallipoli and the Light Horse to the Royal Australian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Damaged jacket in mylar sleeve. At the twilight of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the thick of the Second World War, an Australian journalist...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the annals of Australian military history, few figures loom as large — or as controversially — as...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersBehind the walls of Spandau Prison, one of the most controversial figures of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowy world of wartime espionage, few stories rival the extraordinary courage of Wing Commander F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas — codename: The White Rabbit. Bruce...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of duty, honour, and the brutal machinery of the Second World War stands Johann von Ravenstein — one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadows of the Second World War, a secret army of ordinary men and women was forged into one of history's most daring...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the blazing heat of the North African theatre, one BBC war...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt Britain's darkest moment, when the skies above the English Channel became the crucible of civilisation's survival, Their Finest Hour chronicles the extraordinary story...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the precipice of civilisation's most turbulent era, Vincent Sheean's The Eleventh Hour presents a searching and urgent examination of the political and moral crises threatening...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the bleeding edge of history, war correspondent Quentin Reynolds witnessed firsthand the dramatic liberation of Europe during the Second World War — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: In mylar sleeveAgainst all odds and against all reason, Douglas Bader — a man who lost both legs...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom its storied birth in the fiercely competitive press wars of nineteenth-century New York to its tragic demise in 1966, the New York Herald...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingHe was a young man who stared death in the face and wrote about it with the clarity of someone who had nothing left...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind the wire of a German prisoner-of-war camp, an Australian soldier found a way to bear...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the inner circles of early twentieth-century Bohemian Europe, a unique and intimate portrait emerges — GM: Memories of George...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsA Little Learning is the intimate and candid memoir of one of the twentieth century's most...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew political figures in British history cast as long a shadow as William Ewart Gladstone, and The Gladstone Diaries: Volume...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the chaos of occupied France emerges a gripping account of daring resistance, sacrifice, and ultimate liberation — The Gates Burst Open...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the twilight years of Alexander Alekhine's reign as World Chess Champion, a series of games were played that stand as...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the fog-laden parlours of Victorian England to the tense, clock-ticking duels of the twentieth century,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: N/APages: GoodAn indispensable scholarly resource for students of twentieth-century communism, the Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern chronicles the lives and careers of hundreds of key figures...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn a work of extraordinary scope and singular imaginative vision, Journey to the Ends of Time: Volume I...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingBehind the closed doors of a Royal Navy tribunal, one man's honour, career, and legacy hang in the balance — Court Martial by Alastair...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the annals of extraordinary courage under fire, They Dared Mightily stands as one of Australia's most celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the turbulent heart of seventeenth-century Britain, where loyalty was a currency as volatile as gunpowder, James Hamilton, First Duke...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingBehind every great literary movement stands a great publisher, and few in the twentieth century cast a longer shadow...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the history of world literature are as ferociously compelling as August Strindberg — a man whose genius was inseparable from his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew lives burn with the ferocious intensity of Vincent Van Gogh's, and Irving Stone's Lust for Life captures that flame...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: Minor tear to edge of DJ.Few writers of the twentieth century have provoked such fierce...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the poverty-stricken backstreets of Nizhny Novgorod emerges one of Russian literature's most haunting memoirs — Maxim Gorky's Childhood chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingA searing portrait of poverty, resilience, and the hunger for self-education, My Apprenticeship is the second volume of Maxim Gorky's...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Top edge discoloured from tanning.What does it take to create the greatest...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodGeoffrey Grigson — poet, critic, and one of the twentieth century's most formidably opinionated literary figures — presents in Recollections: Mainly of Artists and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the bold and unforgiving landscape of colonial Australia, one man's ambition and vision gave birth to a city that would endure...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew memoirs capture the elegance and melancholy of a vanishing world quite like Day of My Delight, in which Martin Boyd chronicles his remarkable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFor anyone seeking to navigate the vast and often daunting landscape of modern letters, Who's Who in Twentieth...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of Britain's most turbulent twentieth century decades stood two remarkable figures whose quiet dignity and steadfast resolve would define a nation's character...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe was a creature utterly unlike any other — imperious, bizarre, and incandescently gifted — and Victoria Glendinning's Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in Hollywood history occupy as singular a position as Peter Bogdanovich — a cinephile turned director turned critic — and Picture Shows: Peter...