Biography

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA peer-reviewed academic journal published annually, dedicated to Virginia Woolf scholarship. The volumes present are: Vol. 5 1999. Vol. 8 2002. Vol....

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsOne of the most celebrated travel narratives in world history, The Travels of Marco Polo chronicles the extraordinary 13th-century journey...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: FEP missing Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Pamphlet taped to front inside binding. A richly detailed work of genealogical and social history, Persecution...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Still wrapped.A landmark work of twentieth-century autobiography, Thomas Mann Diaries: 1918-1939 chronicles the inner life of one of Germany's...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA richly detailed work of institutional and social history, this volume chronicles the first 120 years of one of Melbourne's...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.A richly entertaining work of Australian regional history, A Mountain Muster: Colourful Characters Of...

A fascinating intellectual memoir telling the story of one of the world's most respected publishers and the tumultuous political times that shaped him. Beginning with his family's escape from the...

Only a teenager when her beloved father was murdered, shot outside their home by his political opponents, as an adult, Fatima Bhutto longed for a happy family life. And so...

The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer G nter Grass - a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world. Suddenly, in spite of the...

Traces the life and loves of the eighteenth-century French novelist and writer of operas.

Mixing memoir, history, adventure, folklore and descriptions of the deep, this is a meditation on the excitement and pleasures of fishing. Robert Hughes traces his love of fishing back to...

'This Is the Door is a work of piercing grace, philosophical wisdom and rare emotional power. By tracing the history of her own body and spirit, as well as studying...

This book is an answer to the despair of Mark Latham's Diaries. Tom Uren is a child of the Great Depression whose politics were forged by his experience of the...

This is the sparkling record of the haphazard six-thousand-mile odyssey that twenty-five-year-old Stevenson made in pursuit of his future wife, Fanny. The two had met and fallen in love during...

Ellen Terry was a natural actress who filled the theatre with a magical radiance. The Times called her the uncrowned queen of England but behind her public success lay a...

The book titled Far Journeys by the author Bruce Chatwin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the author of A Ghost in the Throat , an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page. In...

A delightful and uncommonly honest memoir of Michael Frayn's father and of his own childhood, written in the spirit of enquiry that so characterises one of our most distinguished and...

Edward Lear, Victorian author of nonsense verse, was also a water-colourist and a traveller. Lear's sense of humour was contrasted with his severe bouts of depression. Gregarious and popular, he...

In ths biography, Peter Levi analyzes Tennyson's development and his place in literature. He describes his influences, both classical and personal, and illuminates his working methods, for example a constant...

Over the course of his astonishing fifty-year career, V.S. Naipaul's writing has been characterized by a commitment to truth that gives his work a unique luminosity and brilliance. In "A...

The book titled A Bloomsbury Album: Friends in Focus by the author Frances Partridge. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Jasper Maskelyne was a world famous magician and illusionist in the 1930s. When war broke out, he volunteered his services to the British Army and was sent to Eygpt where...

This biography of Eliot sets her vividly in the political, social and religious context of the time. She arrived in London in 1851, determined to make her way as a...

By uncovering what he claimed to be Homer's Troy and Mycenate, Heinrich Schliemann (1822-90) became one of the dominant personalities of his age. Yet this biography shows him to have...

The book titled Gorbachev by the author Dev Murarka. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A scholarly, passionate and brilliantly-written biography of Pablo Picasso by Patrick O'Brian, the famous author of the much-loved Aubrey-Maturin series, reissued in a stunning new cover. Patrick O'Brian's outstanding biography...

Damien is convinced that this is the best job anywhere: beautiful skies, red earth, dramatic landings, treating families in remote communities. At a tiny, isolated hospital in central Australia, a...

Fourteen Ways of Looking, written in fragments, looks at the year Erin's parents died. It is also the story of a writer reflecting on her life and her grief and...

Collected and annotated lyrics from one of music's most visionary bards, John Darnielle. A work of rapturous beauty, This Year- 365 songs annotated celebrates the creative life and the musical...

Winner of the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, Trials of Hope tells the story of a shepherd boy turned human-rights academic set against the backdrop of the author's beloved...

A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France's leading non-fiction writer On 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded...

The perfect gift for cat lovers- a beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats, and how they can change our lives over the course of a lifetime...

A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the Holocaust. For the first eighteen years of Simon Weisz's...

The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy, Working Class Man and Killing Time From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales...

A final posthumous work of autobiography from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth A final posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and...

Carolyn Brown, one of the most renowned dancers of the last half-century, lived at the center of New York's bold and vibrant artistic community, which included not only dancers and...

Nicola Barry grew up in well-to-do Murrayfield, Edinburgh. Her father was a hospital consultant, her mother was medically trained, her brothers boarders at public school. But behind the closed doors...

An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel...

The remarkable conservation story of one of the world's most iconic animals Deep in the forests of Northeast Asia roams the majestic and revered Amur tigers, more popularly known as...

Imaginative, brilliant and daring- Hilton Als's now-classic meditation on gender, race and personal identity in America What are the forces that shape us? In The Women, Hilton Als explores-with breath...