Biography

Author: Viola Herms DrathBinding: HardbackPublished: Chilton Book Co, 1975Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography, Willy Brandt: Prisoner Of His Past, chronicles the tumultuous life of the...

Author: Patricia W. RomeroBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsPatricia W. Romero's E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait Of A Radical chronicles the extraordinary life of...

Author: Irving RosenwaterBinding: HardbackPublished: London : Batsford, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSir Donald Bradman: A Biography chronicles the extraordinary life and unparalleled career of one of cricket's...

Author: A. M. PullenBinding: HardbackPublished: S.C.M. PRESS LTD., 1946Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded cloth. Award plate on...

Author: Peter QuennellBinding: HardbackPublished: Little Brown and Company, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCustoms And Characters: Contemporary Portraits presents a collection of incisive biographical sketches, illuminating the lives...

Author: Peter QuennellBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, London, 1952Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Singular Preference: Portraits And Essays presents a compelling collection of literary and biographical studies. This volume...

Author: Storm JamesonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Virago, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some creasing on spines and corners. Storm Jameson presents a commanding literary autobiography in Journey From The North,...

Author: Francis ChichesterBinding: HardbackPublished: Conway Maritime Press, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSolo To Sydney chronicles a remarkable single-handed sailing expedition, detailing the formidable challenges and triumphs encountered...

Author: Maria Augusta TrappBinding: HardbackPublished: Geoffrey Bles London, 1956Condition:Book: PoorJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Brown cloth in good condition....

Author: Victor Shklovsky; Olga Shartse (trans.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Progress Publishers, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsVictor Shklovsky's Lev Tolstoy presents a compelling and unconventional examination of the iconic Russian...

Author: Cecil BeatonBinding: HardbackPublished: McGraw-Hill, New York, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsMemoirs Of The 40's presents a vivid chronicle of a pivotal decade through the discerning eyes...

Author: Alec R. VidlerBinding: HardbackPublished: SCM Press, London, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAlec R. Vidler's F.D. Maurice And Company: Nineteenth Century Studies presents a scholarly examination of...

Author: Christy BrownBinding: HardbackPublished: Secker & Warburg, 1954Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded cloth with marks and specks. Bumping on corners. B&W frontispiece. Internally sound. This is the...

Author: Francis Brett YoungBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd, 1938Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis compelling work of historical fiction...

Author: Hector BolithoBinding: HardbackPublished: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1937Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis biography chronicles the life of Edward VIII, the British monarch...

Author: Edward Cooper HodgeBinding: HardbackPublished: Military Book Society, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor mark on blue cover. Yellowed spine. This is a compelling collection of personal writings...

Author: Rachel HenningBinding: PaperbackPublished: The Bulletin Newspaper Co. Pty. Ltd., 1952Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis collection of letters by Rachel Henning...

Author: Ayrton SennaBinding: PaperbackPublished: APA Publishing, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageKen Ryan’s Ayrton Senna: Prince of Formula One presents a vivid...

Author: Les PerrinBinding: PaperbackPublished: by the author, 1998Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis biography chronicles the tumultuous life of Tommy Wills,...

Author: Garry Sturgess And Bill BirnbauerBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson of Australia, VIC, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography chronicles the extraordinary life of the journalist who laughed,...

Author: Ernest HemingwayBinding: HardbackPublished: Granada Publishing, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents a candid look into the life and mind of one of the...

Author: Gavin SouterBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive historical account chronicles a century and a half of Australian publishing through the lens...

As the editor of the classic films Wake in Fright, Age of Consent and Nureyev's DonQuixote, and producer of such masterly films as Caddie, Bliss, Oyster Farmer,The Night The Prowler...

So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find...

While the world hailed Einstein's genius, his private life was collapsing around him. His marriage to the beautiful, tormented Mileva had failed and he had launched into affairs with a...

An inspirational collection of essays that shows how the joys and regrets of life can bring a deeper understanding of the self and that not-so-simple creature, man. A test pilot,...

Gervase tells of a life full of happiness, conversation, music and books shared with his three siblings, mother and father. This book is a snapshot of growing up in Yorkshire...

In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central...

Boy: Tales of Childhood is the story of Roald Dahl's very own boyhood. Including takes of sweet-shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great Mouse Plot - the inspiration...

Inspiring and powerful true stories of communication with beings from the Afterlife from one of the country's most successful and sought after psychics. Includes amazing accounts of guardian angel interventions,...

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Essex Girls are disreputable, disrespectful and disobedient. They speak out of turn, too loudly and too often, in an accent irritating to the ruling classes.Their bodies are hyper-sexualised and irredeemably...

In the 60 years since Roman Holiday transformed the ex-ballerina into a superstar, Audrey Hepburn has inspired the kind of mass adoration usually reserved for deities. If anything, the cult...

Think like Britain's greatest living Olympian: Ten steps to push your limits and achieve the impossible from the one of the world's greatest swimmers 'The most dominant sportsperson in Great...

The Sunday Times bestseller 'Jay can teach us all something about the simple power of compassion and creativity.' - Radio Times Making It is an inspirational memoir about beating the...

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER It has been 30 years since Noel Fitzpatrick graduated as a veterinary surgeon, and that 22-year-old from Ballyfin, Ireland, is now one of the leading...

A follow-up to Margaret Forster's "Hidden Lives" (a family memoir of three generations of women), this account takes up the story of her gritty northern father. He was not a...

The Sunday Times bestseller 'Frank, funny and inspiring' - You Magazine 'Louise is just ready to do her - and we're here for it' - Glamour 'Warm-hearted, honest and relatable'...

Matt Baker's first ever book is a year spent on the farm; told through the seasons this is his diary of the natural world, his farm and his family, now...

One woman's inspiring story of a life in politics and the women's movement. Why does the political representation of women matter? And which hurdles - personal, political and societal -...

Mad Madge designed her own clothes and her coach was black with silver decoration. As John Evelyn wrote, gentlemen visitors were 'much pleased by the extraordinary fanciful habit, garb and...

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What's it really like to be a parent? And how come no one ever warned Rob or Josh of the sheer mind-bending, world-altering, sleep-depriving, sick-covering, tear-inducing, snot-wiping, bore-inspiring, 4am-relationship-straining brutality...