Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the annals of military catastrophe, few episodes are as haunting or as grimly spectacular as the Charge of the Light Brigade, and Cecil...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn his final work of travel writing, Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul embarks on an unflinching journey across...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingIn the grimy coal-mining valleys of Wales and the glittering consulting rooms of London, a young Scottish doctor wages a war against his own...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in Australian political history loom as large or as defiantly as Sir Henry Bolte, and Bolte by Bolte presents the man himself in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the sun-scorched ochres of the outback to the colonial grandeur of Sydney's first galleries, The Art of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Advanced Reading Copy.From the rubble of World War II to the fractured politics of the twenty-first century, Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 chronicles seven...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Advanced Reading Copy.Before he became the most feared ruler of the twentieth century, Joseph Stalin was simply Soso — a cobbler's son...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of Britain's socialist movement, a remarkable circle of intellectuals gathered to reshape the destiny of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the myth of the rugged Australian bushman was enshrined in national folklore, women were...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the rugged, tradition-bound landscape of nineteenth-century Sardinia, a young girl named Cosima burns with an ambition that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTaking its title from the famous Mao Zedong proclamation that women hold up half the sky, this remarkable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Advanced Reading Copy.Britain in the early 1960s stands at a crossroads — a nation shedding its imperial skin, wrestling with modernity, and...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark intervention in the discourse of race and gender, Ain't...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most celebrated airmen of the Second World War, Wing Commander Guy Gibson...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew survival accounts capture the full horror and resilience of the human spirit quite like...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew works of the twentieth century blur the boundaries between memoir, philosophy, and anthropology as brilliantly as Tristes...

Edition: Second Impression.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt just sixteen years old, Robin Lee Graham set sail from Los Angeles harbour aboard a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the convict ships of early colonial Australia to the heights of financial and social power, the extraordinary life of Samuel Terry...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Some minor silverfish damage to FEP, rubbed edges and some chipping to DJ.In...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor anyone seeking to unlock the secrets of physical mastery and martial arts conditioning, Harry Wong's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingBehind the carefully curated myth of a peace-loving working-class hero lay a far more complicated, tormented, and mesmerizing human being — and Albert...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most harrowing and ultimately triumphant accounts of survival to emerge from the Second World War, White Coolies is the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of gender, education, and Australian social history stands a compelling institutional chronicle — Feminine Singular: a history...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew literary lives are as rich, contradictory, and compulsively readable as that of William Somerset Maugham — and Ted Morgan's...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: unclipped dj. What if the entire Australian continent were criss-crossed by an invisible web of music, ancient paths sung into...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the legendary Australian author of My Brilliant Career lies a decade of American life largely hidden from public view — Verna Coleman's Miles...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind one of Australia's most explosive and controversial novels lies a story just as gripping as the fiction itself. Frank Hardy and the Making...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Minor tear on dj. Behind the closed doors of Australia's most secretive intelligence agency, a hidden war was being...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Remainder markFrom one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes Jacko, a bold and irreverent novel that thrusts readers into the...

Edition: 1st aus ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFew figures in American history managed to be simultaneously a murderer, a congressman, a disgraced general, and a...

Edition: Leatherbound special EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew figures in Australian history command as much admiration and complexity as Sir John Monash...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the pearls, the designer gowns, and the adoring gaze fixed upon her husband stood one of the most powerful and polarizing women ever...

Edition: later repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small crease on rear cover. What happens when one of America's sharpest comic...

Edition: 3rd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Signed by Grimshaw. Light stains on spine, internally sound. What does it truly...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Appears unread.Few figures in Australian literary history burned as fiercely and as controversially as Katharine Susannah...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Empire found itself locked...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the blood-soaked fields of northern France, one of the most catastrophic...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the dust of the Western Sudan to the collapse of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep back into the rugged wilderness of colonial Tasmania with James Fenton's vivid and authoritative memoir, Bush Life in Tasmania: Fifty Years Ago —...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of colonial ambition and intellectual awakening, Australia's Colonial Culture: Ideas, Men and Institutions...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Australian cultural and scientific life shone as brightly as Sir Frederick Russell Grimwade — industrialist, philanthropist, and passionate guardian of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the gilded corridors of Edwardian England, a sharp-witted Southern belle from Virginia transforms herself into one of the most formidable political figures Britain...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew pursuits demand as much of the human body and spirit as climbing — and The Greatest Climbing Stories Ever Told: Incredible...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscription,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, inscribed by the subject and McKenna; minor stains on the book block. In...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of intellectual ambition and radical politics stands the Fabian Society — a movement that, for over a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in Australian public life blazed a trail as boldly as Jessie Street — suffragist, peace activist,...