Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA portrait of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic literary figures, Malcolm Lowry: Psalms and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew memoirs capture the dizzying whirl of early twentieth-century bohemian artistic life with the candour and wit found...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerMikhail Lermontov — poet, soldier, and brooding genius of Russian Romanticism — burned through life...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of The Loss of El Dorado lies one of history's most seductive and devastating myths — the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodCondition remarks: Fold-out maps intact. Few eyewitness accounts of history's most seismic upheavals carry the raw authority...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBehind every great singer stands a pianist whose artistry is felt but rarely seen — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the height of the Cold War, one man's words held the power to reshape the global order — and Khrushchev Speaks...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the glittering, jazz-soaked boulevards of 1920s Paris, few Americans lived with more style, generosity, and élan...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. At the intersection of literary genius and cultural identity stands Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, widely regarded...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBehind every great literary dynasty lies a story waiting to be told on its own terms — and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of empire, ideology, and international intrigue, Lord Humphrey Trevelyan spent decades navigating the treacherous waters of twentieth-century diplomacy, and Diplomatic Channels...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the height of the postwar American cultural renaissance, Mary McCarthy positioned herself as one of its sharpest and most uncompromising voices...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few figures in nineteenth-century Russian history burn as fiercely as Alexander Herzen — exile, agitator, and prophet...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBefore the couch, before the theories that would rewrite the map of the human mind, there was a young Sigmund Freud — restless, ambitious,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the aftermath of World War II, one of the last surviving members of the Bloomsbury Group picked up her pen and began recording...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat separates a masterful literary biography from a mere recounting of facts? The Craft of Literary Biography, edited by Jeffrey Meyers, brings together fourteen...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to capture a life on the page? In The Nature of Biography, distinguished...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark chapter in Australian aviation history unfolds in this remarkable two-in-one volume, combining Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageJazz is not merely a genre — it is a living, breathing archive of American culture, and Leonard...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePart of the acclaimed Literature in Perspective series, this critical study presents a thorough and illuminating examination of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of memory and elegy, Closing Times by Dan Davin presents a luminous collection of reminiscences centred on the legendary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodBoris Pasternak — poet, novelist, and one of the most enigmatic literary figures of twentieth-century Russia — receives a thorough and illuminating...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA luminous window into one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds, Memories gathers the recollections and reflections...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMaurice Collis spent a lifetime at the intersection of art, literature, and empire, and The Journey Up: Reminiscences 1934–1968 stands as his vivid, deeply...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markAt the turbulent crossroads of modernity, God's Fifth Column presents a sweeping intellectual portrait of a world unraveling — chronicling the defining...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind one of literature's most iconic fictional voices stood a flesh-and-blood woman whose extraordinary life rivalled anything her famous husband could imagine. Nora: The...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives in the history of French letters have burned as brightly — or as turbulently...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to discover — to shatter the boundaries of the known world and reimagine the very fabric of human understanding?...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in Victorian literature are as maddeningly elusive as George Borrow — traveller, linguist, adventurer, and writer — a man who constructed his...

Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. New in shrink wrap. In one of the most ambitious acts of literary criticism of the twentieth...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSet against the sun-scorched landscapes and turbulent soul of Spain, An Interlude in Spain transports the reader into a world of vivid...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the grand sweep of American literary history, few eras crackle with as much creative electricity as the mid-nineteenth century, and Van...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: review copyFew figures of the early twentieth century captured the imagination of the literary world quite like Helen Waddell —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Small stain on book block. From the shadowy corridors of Cold War intelligence comes Tale of the Scorpion, a gripping firsthand...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the dawn of Britain's most audacious imperial undertaking, a handful of ambitious, conflicted, and often brilliant men...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedAt the crossroads of Russian Romanticism and early realism stands Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky — philosopher, musician, writer, and eccentric polymath — whose singular life...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Edwardian literary London stood South Lodge — the Campden Hill home of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the heart of Melbourne's storied St Kilda district, a Jewish community took root and flourished across one remarkable century...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA Golden String is a quietly luminous biography that chronicles the remarkable life of Dorothy J Ross, a woman whose personal journey illuminates the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the vast, sun-scorched outback of Australia, where the nearest neighbour might be hundreds of miles away and death can arrive swiftly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodSet against the vast, sun-baked landscape of rural Australia, Little Sticks: The Story of Two Brothers chronicles the intertwined lives of two...