Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark moment in Victoria's colonial heritage, La Trobe and His Circle is an exhibition catalogue produced to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAna Maria Pacheco: Sculpture | Norwich 2015 presents a stunning visual record of one of the most thought-provoking...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA singular figure in the history of Canadian art, Edwin Holgate carved a distinctive path through the modernist...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century photography occupied so singular a position as Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon — a man who moved...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the golden age of aviation, when the skies above the Pacific were vast, uncharted, and merciless, one man dared to conquer them — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Volume 24, Numbers 1–7 Autumn 1998 through Spring 1999. For those captivated by the stories hidden in...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the dawn of Australia's colonial era, one royal commission would lay bare the contradictions of a society built on convict labour,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century British public life possessed the singular vantage point of Woodrow Wyatt — industrialist, politician, journalist, and confidant to prime ministers...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what...

The book titled In Full View by the author Lily Brett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An exhilarating, life-affirming travelogue and a provocative, rallying invocation to the search for spiritual truth 'Gurdjieff asks us why we are here, what we wish for, what forces we obey....

A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West. On February 3, 1889, just two days shy of her forty-first birthday,...

Why We Travel asks why humans yearn to travel, what motivates us and what we can gain from venturing out into the world. INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024 Good...

Ciaran O Nuallain's memoir of his brother Brian O'Nolan (1991-66), the only major source on the early life of the man who later achieved literary fame as Flann O'Brien and...

The book titled Ivy by the author Hilary Spurling. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Prof. Barlow's fine biography, based on the original sources and informed by the most recent scholarship, provides a compeling interpretation of the life of Becket- worldly courtier, zealous prelate and...

War Paint is the story of two remarkable women - Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein. Between them they left an extraordinary legacy which touches the lives of virtually...

One of the most original and influential figures in twentieth century literature, Virginia Woolf has paradoxically become known as much for her personality as her writing. In this new biography...

The book titled Hemingway: The Paris Years by the author Michael S. Reynolds. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This new biography focuses on the maturing Hemingway when fame is hitting full force the years between A Farewell to Arms and the writing of For Whom the Bell Tolls....

D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Paris, the relentless drive through Germany toward Allied victory--Omar Bradley, the "GI General," was there for every major engagement in the...

The book titled Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confession of Thomas Griffiths by the author Andrew Motion. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Noel Coward: The First In-Depth Biography of One of the Most Magnetic by the author Clive Fisher. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

Watched by the world with bated breath, read the enthralling autobiography of cave-diver Rick Stanton, who played a leading role in the Thai cave rescue in 2018 In July 2018,...

One of the New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages...

New York Times bestseller A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country life from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of the...

The Inspiration for the New Podcast Featuring Jason Rezaian. "544 Days" is a Spotify original podcast, produced by Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24. The dramatic memoir of the journalist who...

As a follow up to his phenomenal New York Times bestselling memoir, Highest Duty , Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger explores exactly what it takes to lead and inspire. In...

Now in paperback: RFK Jr. describes his life growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that...

'Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary. People need to read this book, especially if they feel a resistance to. I wish everyone would.' Sofie Hagen 'Uncompromising, anguished, combative: culture wars have victims,...

At age seven, Graham Rundle was taken by his father for a 'holiday' to Eden Park, a Salvation Army boys' home outside Adelaide. As soon as his father left, Graham...

From the trailer parks of Vegas to the mansions of Nashville, Bunnie Xo has lived a lot of lives and seen the darkest sides of humanity. Her memoir, Stripped Down:...

For many people, wine is an anxiety-inducing mystery, and with so many varieties, it's difficult to know what to choose. That uncertainty often prevents them from enjoying wine, depriving them...

W. Macmahon Ball was a seminal figure in the development of the discipline of political science in...

"My Lords, The several Goals and Places for the Confinement of Felons in this Kingdom being in so crouded a State ... I ... signify to your Lordships His Majesty's...

As the new Scout District Commissioner, he officiated in welcomes to the then Queensland Head Scout Governor Henry Abel Smith, and Lady May. Les died -- on 11 December 2000...

The book titled With Dew on My Boots by the author Colin Thiele. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Dick Cheney is the most powerful yet most unpopular vice president in American history. He has thrived alongside a president who, from day one, had little interest in policy and...

Revealing, uplifting, heartbreaking - this is stand-up comedian Simon Amstell in his own words. 'A beautiful and clever book about being human' Russell Brand COMEDY. TRAGEDY. THERAPY. Simon Amstell did...

I had been looking for someone to write to for a long time, but how does a man write letters to a god? From his Mediterranean garden on the island...

'Honest and articulate and beautifully written.' Rosie Waterland 'Tanya Hennessy is a fabulous crazy cat! A true original-relatable, hilarious, and disarmingly frank.' Larry Emdur 'Tanya is unique, raw, creative and...

A mother's battle against her seven-year-old daughter's obesity. A mother's battle against her seven-year-old daughter's obesity. When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss's daughter, Bea, obese at the age of seven,...

The book titled A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War by the author Laurie Lee. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The heartwarming true story of how one man's life was saved by adopting an overweight, middle-aged shelter dog named Peety. Eric O'Grey was 150 pounds overweight, depressed, and sick. After...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 "As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" ( The Economist ), the incredible true story--part...

'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In one short hour, in the midst of this difficult moment, Giordano...

In Furiously Happy , #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds...