Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the polished pronouncements and carefully staged press conferences of America's 33rd president lies a far more candid and compelling voice — one that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the sun-drenched harbours of a newly federated nation to the smoke-filled battlegrounds of two world wars, A Navy for Australia chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the heart of the American Mafia's golden age stands Bill Bonanno, son of legendary crime boss Joseph Bonanno —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: small tear in interior of binding.In the smouldering aftermath of the Second World War, a group of Jewish survivors — hardened by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhen one of the most scrutinised political assassinations in modern history is put on trial by a lawyer armed with testimony, evidence, and relentless logic, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: good binding, clean pages. In the gaslit shadows of Victorian England, a brutal social crisis festered beneath the veneer of imperial respectability...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the winter of 1618–1619, the great English playwright and poet Ben Jonson made an extraordinary journey on foot from London to Edinburgh,...

Edition: Forth edCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the glittering and treacherous world of sixth-century Byzantium, one man stands above all others — Belisarius, the...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA master of irony and human observation turns the lens inward in The Partial View, W. Somerset Maugham's...

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Edition: First edCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Small chip at bottom corner - otherwise fine.Few figures of the British colonial era...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sweltering summer of 1974, the most powerful office in the world was imploding — and two journalists were watching from the inside....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the gilded facades of the late seventeenth-century European courts lay a world of political intrigue, forced marriages, and devastating personal tragedy — and...

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Chipped along spine - still...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersGeorge Bernard Shaw — playwright, polemicist, and provocateur — remains one...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA literary giant of New Zealand letters, Dan Davin brought the same unflinching honesty to his memoir as he did to...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Small glue residue on fep. Binding remains tight. In the autumn of 1934, the skies...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: First published in 1901. Preface by Henry Lawson. Original cloth. x, 232 pp. In the sun-scorched Australian bush at the turn of...

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Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few novels capture the sweep of an entire civilisation with such devastating elegance as Martin Boyd's...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few coming-of-age memoirs capture the contradictions of mid-twentieth-century Australia with such razor-sharp clarity as Donald...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: DJ: unclipped; minor scuffs, in mylar. Published in 1970, The Female Eunuch ignited a global conversation that...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the annals of military valour, few accounts match the raw courage chronicled in They Dared...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA Difficult Young Man is the second installment in Martin Boyd's celebrated Langton tetralogy, a sequence of semi-autobiographical...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the scorching sands of North Africa, where survival was measured in hours and courage defined a generation,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to be a genius? Harold Bloom, one of the most celebrated and provocative literary...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the moonlit hours before the beaches of Normandy ran red with the blood of D-Day, a daring and decisive airborne assault quietly shaped the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the iron curtain, a literary giant waged a silent war against the most powerful state apparatus in the world — and the Kremlin kept...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the gilded chrysanthemum curtain lies one of the world's most ancient and enigmatic institutions — the Japanese Imperial Household, a dynasty that traces its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA masterwork of investigative journalism and social diagnosis, The Changing Anatomy of Britain by Anthony Sampson presents a forensic examination of the institutions, hierarchies,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the history of social...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the scorching summer of 1854, the goldfields of Ballarat erupted in one of the most dramatic confrontations...

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