Biography

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Usual aging. Shelf wear. This candid and warmly written autobiography chronicles the...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: As newA Luminous, Vulnerable Journey into the Heart of the Digital Wilderness: Seeking a radical departure from the quiet, salt-strewn...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: As new.A candid and emotionally resonant memoir, Earth to Moon chronicles the singular life of Moon Unit Zappa — daughter...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Pencil underlining throughout. A Vivid, Definitive Exploration of a Foundational Australian Era: In this celebrated historical chronicle, distinguished...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: As new. A richly personal memoir and music biography, Tomorrow's Here Today: Lightning Seeds, Football and Cosmic Post-Punk chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA captivating work of narrative history written for younger readers, this volume chronicles the extraordinary life and adventures of Marco Polo, the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA compelling literary biography, Portrait of an Artist: Conan Doyle by Julian Symons presents a richly detailed examination of one...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA richly detailed work of cricket history, Ponsford and Woodfull: A Premier Partnership chronicles the celebrated batting alliance between two...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis authoritative sports biography chronicles the life of Douglas Jardine, one of cricket's most controversial and compelling figures, best known...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA warm and witty work of humorous nonfiction, How to Be...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed work of Tudor history, The Court of Elizabeth the First by Rachel and Allen Percival chronicles the...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Slipcase: WornPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. All plates intact. A landmark volume in Australian art history, Masterpieces of Australian...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Slipcase: WornPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly curated sports photography collection, Images of Bradman: Rare and Famous Photographs of a Cricket Legend presents a sweeping...

Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughteris an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, orself-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst...

'I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and...

In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the...

In 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project that 'by definition, he could never live to complete', as translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword. The Book Against...

Across history, women were told to sit down, smile and stay quiet. Spoiler alert- they didn't. They spoke out, stood tall - and ruined the patriarchy's day. Because of them,...

This is the story of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, penned by their National Presidente, Tony Vartiainen of Australasia and is a look at how the club started through to the...

In this lively and comprehensive book, Monica Bohm-Duchen examines Marc Chagall's prodigious output, not only in painting but also in book illustration, theatre design, stained glass and poetry. She follows...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2809 A lively mixed non-fiction box spanning popular science, history, travel, politics, and memoir. Susan Greenfield's guided tour of the human brain and...

Secondhand History & Biography Bargain Book Box SP2803 A varied non-fiction box spanning biography, history, travel, journalism, and memoir. Michael Palin's New Europe and Tony Hawks's Piano in the Pyrenees...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2798 A well-stocked all-Pelican box with particular strength in the history of ideas, science, and the arts. J. Bronowski's Common Sense of Science,...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2796 Another all-Pelican box in the classic blue and white livery, spanning sociology, psychology, history, science, and the arts. C. Wright Mills's Sociological...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2600 An all-Pelican Books box — sixteen vintage Pelican paperbacks from the 1950s and 1960s in their distinctive blue covers, spanning architecture, art...

Liz Truss's journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the YearA Guardian Politics Book of the Year 2023 'An insightful and at...

From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" ( The Washington Free Beacon ) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA sharp and irreverent work of social criticism, The Old School: A Study In The Oddities Of The English Public...

Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsA rigorous work of literary criticism, The Picturesque Prison: Evelyn Waugh and His Writing presents a comprehensive...

Edition: 1st ed., 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Scarce DJ - chipped with some...

Edition: 1at aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Yellowed Markings: SignedA vivid work of autobiographical fiction, Homebush Boy chronicles a pivotal year in the life of a seventeen-year-old...

Edition: 1st ed., 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA candid and affectionate memoir, Somerset and All the Maughams chronicles the life of one of...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Text - light foxing on book block....

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA rich collection of literary and personal essays, Crossing the Gap presents the reflections of one of Australia's most...

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"From the sweltering battlefields of the South Pacific to the devastated cities of Europe, Alan Moore witnessed the greatest war in human history-not with a rifle, but with a paintbrush."...

A fascinating memoir of a former sociologist/criminologist with over 40 years of experience incriminal justice.Van Groningen s experience includes working as aprison officer, juvenile corrections officer,researcher, policy analyst, lecturer, consultant...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of literary biography, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart chronicles the life of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA richly detailed biographical work, Phyllis Grosskurth's study chronicles the life of Havelock Ellis,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light foxing on block - does not extend internally. A compelling work of...