Biography

Part biography, part critical appraisal, "The Anti-Egotist" aims to capture the essence of Kingsley Amis as a man of letters. Paul Fussell traces the influences that have shaped Amis's writing,...

This is a fascinating study - part biography, part cultural history - about George Orwell and his literary reputation. No one gained such sudden fame as Orwell did in the...

The book titled Intellectual Memoirs OBE/R by the author McCarthy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Brodsky's curious, quirky, and brilliant account of his love affair with Venice, new to Penguin Modern Classics 'Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining...

The Letters of William S. Burroughs, new to Penguin Modern Classics and in paperback edition These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years...

With a new introduction and editorial apparatus by eminent military historian Hew Strachan In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the...

The book titled Wild Heart: a Life by the author Suzanne Rodriguez. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Franco by the author Juan Pablo Fusi. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The fourth title from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands to be taken into care. It's a desperate act, a cry...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2886 Eighteen non-fiction titles spanning natural science, Renaissance art, Medici banking, WWII history, and literary biography — Darwin and da Vinci, Pasteur and...

Everything you need to know about how to grow, harvest and cook fruit from the authority on how to get the best results. Whether you want to know how to...

When the Revolution broke out in 1917, Sergei Golitsyn was just 8 years old. His memoir of the Revolution and the years that followed constitute one of the most powerful...

This highly illustrated, detailed account of Harry and Meghan's relationship celebrates the announcement of their wedding and tells the story of a thoroughly modern royal romance. The book charts their...

The most capped All Black in history speaks for the record about his storied career, spanning four World Cups, nine Super Rugby finals and 153 appearances in the black jersey....

''An astonishing account...' --- The Daily Mail '... an extraordinary new portrait of the former King, his recollections and feelings'. --- The Telegraph 'Tippett has made a remarkable archival discovery...the...

The first full-scale biography of the author of Black Boy and Native Son -- written with the dramatic drive of a novel. "Writing," Richard Wright once said, "is my way...

The book titled Dear Shadows: Portraits from Memory by the author John Wain. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Life of Solitude: Stanislawa Przybyszewska by the author Jadwiga Kosicka. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Surviving: The Uncollected Works of Henry Green by the author Henry Green. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations by the author Walter Laqueur (Center for Strategic and International Studies). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

All writers of fiction should be required by law to go out and do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real...

The delirious kaleidoscope of a book is the culmination and distillation of twenty years' work on Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), the author who remains best known for A Clockwork Orange, the...

A great blonde giant of a man, Gustave Flaubert lived at home with his widowed mother, writing wonderful novels at the rate of five words an hour, escaping to Paris,...

The book titled Malcolm Lowry Remembered by the author Gordon Bowker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and...

The book titled Dornford Yates by the author A.J. Smithers. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A House with Four Rooms by the author Rumer Godden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom For ade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics and assuming control of the Underground Press Syndicate,...

A sparkling new translation of the most famous travel book ever written Marco Polo's voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan...

Mary Ward (1851-1920) had a furiously active public career, her literary and philanthropic activities transforming her from an eminent Victorian into a pre-eminent Edwardian. The granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, she...

'The knowledge that in a few minutes, when I left the hotel, I would have no home, no bed of my own, no possessions for a long time to come...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and...

First time in Modern Classics for Litvinoff's evocation of his Jewish childhood in the East End In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class...

This major new collection brings together the key writings from every stage of Freud's career to offer the perfect introduction to his life and work. Here are the essential ideas...

A delightful autobiographical novel from one of Ireland's best-loved writers My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no...

The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the...

This volume of autobiographical essays, now in paperback, is one of Achebe's most powerful and personal works to date The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on...

A life of one of the most known and engaging Saints Founding father of the famous monastery on the island of Iona, a site of pilgrimage ever since his death...

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams is a unique autobiography in which the anonymous writer known as Lady Sarashina intersperses personal reflections, anecdotes and lyrical poems with accounts of...

This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks...

Of all the despots of our time, Joseph Stalin lasted the longest and wielded the greatest power, and his secrets have been the most jealously guarded-even after his death. In...

From an acclaimed biographer of Lawrence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe comes the definitive biography of Hollywood's most glamorous living legend, the only star from Hollywood's Golden Age who continues to...

The book titled Freud by the author Richard Wollheim. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Pierre Loti by the author Lesley Blanch. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

One of BBC Wildlife 's books of the year "A book of great courage, curiosity, discovery and connection." - Amy-Jane Beer, author of The Flow A moving, honest and revealing...

The book titled Silk Roads: The Asian Adventures of Clara & Andre Malraux by the author Axel Madsen (Los Angeles, California). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...