Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionIn the world of British pastel art, few names command as much reverence as David Blackburn, a visionary whose luminous, cosmic landscapes transcend...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAustralia's earliest settlers were forged from hardship, ambition, and extraordinary courage — and Australian Pioneers brings their remarkable stories vividly to life. Colin and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century classical music cast as long a shadow as Benjamin Britten, and Benjamin Britten 1913–1976: Pictures from a Life stands as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingShe was the most enigmatic star Hollywood ever produced — a woman whose beauty was matched only by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the history of cinema have captured the world's imagination quite like Charlie Chaplin, and My Life in Pictures presents his extraordinary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the summer of 1972, a rain-swept Icelandic city became the epicentre of the Cold War, as two chess titans — the mercurial American Bobby Fischer...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: Small tears repaired with tapes, in mylar. Pages: Light foxing on prelims. Markings:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodBehind every beloved fairy tale, every iconic cartoon, and every magical theme park stands one singular visionary — Walter Elias Disney. Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew stars of Hollywood's Golden Age radiated the effortless glamour and versatility of Ginger Rogers — dancer, comedienne,...

Edition: No. 406 of 425 copies.Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Excellent/Fine - Signed on 06 October 1996. Quarter bound by hand from SA. Clamshell slipcase in very...

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'Immensely enjoyable... Ros's experiences are fascinating. She's clearly a woman and who doesn't let the obstacles life throws at her get her down' Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons...

Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the result of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically...

Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you, you lose a family member, you can't pay the bills.But it can be pretty great, too: you've had the hottest sex...

20 September. Have a notion for a radio series - Awkward Conversations. Enough Said is Alan Bennett's fourth collection of diaries and prose. Covering the turbulent years 2016 to 2024,...

In The City and the World Gregor Hens considers the phenomenon of the contemporary city and our place within it. Hens travels the world - from Berlin to Las Vegas...

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...

Richard Holloway has been the archetypal 'turbulent priest'. Having risen to be the Primus (Head) of the Scottish Episcopal Church, he abandoned religion and ecclesiastical office to fight for the...

Everyone knows who you find in bookshops: people who want to buy books. But, as Shaun Bythell, author of the bestselling Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller,...

It's Okay Not to Get Along with Everyone explores the necessity of maintaining a healthy distance in relationships and surrounding yourself with people you are comfortable with. It delves into...

An esthetician and single mother with no connections, Anastasia Soare risked her life escaping communist Romania to come to America. Raising Brows tells the remarkable story of how she built...

Fourteen-year-old Jade Hameister had a dream: to complete the Polar Hat Trick. In 2016, she skied to the North Pole. In 2017, she completed the Greenland Crossing. In 2018, she...

In the baking heat of February 1973, wearing a purple nylon bodyshirt and an expression of confidence that belied his nerves, Ned Manning faced down a classroom full of kids...

A red-hot memoir from an Australian ex-SAS soldier, full of the action, fear and camaraderie of combat. For the first time, an ex-SAS soldier tells all- what it means to...

This is a witty, insightful, and intelligent memoir from one of the most influential and important social thinkers of the 20th century. Peter Berger is arguably one of the best...

Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through memoir-style stories from his remarkable life and career. THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD...

"A powerful, beautifully written memoir about coming of age as a black girl in an exclusive white suburb in "integrated," post-Civil Rights California in the 1970s and 1980s." At six...

A story of love, loss and discovery. The background to the narrative is Gillian's life-long search for the truth about her father, a man she barely knew. As she follows...

From the author of popular affirmations handbook TODAY I WILL... comes this book of inspiration to use in daily life. Each page is an invitation to appreciate the richness of...

This literary biography looks at the life of Thomas Mann. Vignettes enable us to enter Mann's life and work from different angles. We meet the difficult, even unsavoury private man:...

'Fascinating reminiscences of her past.A wonderfully vivid evocation of a lower-middle-class childhood of oil lamps and gas mantles, water heated up in a coke boiler for the weekly bath, liberty...

A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love...

Lord Byron in all his controversial splendor--the long-awaited, authoritative biography With this brilliant book, Fiona MacCarthy has produced the most important work on Byron in nearly half a century. Granted...

The death of Matthew Leveson and the ten-year search for the truth What Mark and Faye Leveson have endured to discover the truth about the mysterious death of their son...

In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan Hsu's great-great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters, were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze...

An insightful, behind-the-scences portrait of the technology giant Apple Former Wall Street Journal technology reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane delves deep inside Apple in the two years since Steve Jobs's death,...

'I need to ride now, to explore, to uncover more life; to reach strangers, to feel danger and to learn; to share this old, slow way, with man's patient, most...

'There was something magical about the unplumbed depths,the moor hens,the dragonflies, the waterlilies, the willows, the floating rings and rafts...' Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge...

'Outrageously good . . . An unforgettable book' - OLIVIA LAING 'Reverie and road-trip, Aqua succeeds in turning the Cadillac Desert and Land of Little Rain into something lush and...

'B eautifully written and deeply moving' CLARE BALDING 'An important voice' CATHY RENTZENBRINK 'I devoured it in a day . . . An open-hearted book' CLOVER STROUD The Corner is...

A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it - KATHERINE MAY, author of Wintering The orange we know, waxed in vats, gathered in red netting and stacked...

At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe's...

When the celebrated Swedish writer Johanna Ekstrom found out that she was dying from an eye melanoma she asked her closest friend, Sigrid Rausing, to finish her last book. Rausing...

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...

When Stacey Heale's husband, Greg, was diagnosed with incurable cancer on their daughter's first birthday, it felt like her life as she knew it was drawn to a halt. Confronted...

The book titled The Push: an Impressionist Memoir by the author Judy Ogilvie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

One of the best-loved stars of classic American cinema tells all in this wry, funny, and poignant memoir Leslie Caron is one of the most cherished and admired international film...