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Poor, Dear Brendan: The Quest for Brendan Bracken
$200.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description...
No Passing Glory: The Full & Authentic Biography Of Group Captain Cheshire V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C
$25.00 AUD
Author: Andrew BoyleBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins 14 St. James's Place, London, 1955Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Name on back endpaper. This compelling biography...
Eminent Corporations: The Rise and Fall of the Great British Brands
How much do you know about the big-name brands we live by? Virgin, BP, Land Rover, Barclays, Cadbury's, BBC and M&S. In our times the PLCs have been seen as...
Lord Burlington: Architecture, Art And Life
$40.00 AUD
Author: Toby Barnard And Jane ClarkBinding: HardbackPublished: The Hambledon Press, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work chronicles the multifaceted existence of Richard Boyle, the third Earl...
Andrew Bovell: The Alchemy of Collaboration
In Andrew Bovell: The alchemy of collaboration , Australian artists and filmmakers pay tribute to one of Australia's greatest writers for stage and screen. Andrew Bovell's credits include the landmark...
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
Madhouse reveals a long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading American psychiatrist of the early twentieth century came to believe...
Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free
No statesman shaped the twentieth century more than Winston Churchill. To know the full Churchill is to understand the combination of boldness and caution, of assertiveness and humility, that defines...
Andrea Bocelli: the Music of S: The Music of Silence
$10.00 AUD
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Andrew Fisher
The story of Australia's first elected Labor Prime Minister, from award-winning historian David Day Prime Minister Andrew Fisher was one of Australia's great nation-builders, yet his story is largely unknown....
My Family and Other Rock Stars: 'An insane amount of fun' Andrew [...]
A book of the year for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Daily Mail'Gloriously tender and funny . . . with My Family and Other Rock Stars, Murray...
Napoleon: A Life
$25.00 AUD
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War --winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and...
Boy A: 'A wonderful, heartbreaking tale' Andrew Garfield
'A is for Apple. A bad apple. Jack has spent most of his life in juvenile institutions, to be released with a new name, new job, new life. At 24,...
The Unknown Prime Minister: The Life And Times Of Andrew Bonar Law 1858-1923
$45.00 AUD
Author: Robert BlakeBinding: HardbackPublished: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography chronicles the life and political career of...
Focus On Andrew Sibley (SIGNED)
$70.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - hinges cracked. Text - clean. A focused monograph on Australian painter Andrew...
The Morbid Anatomy Of The Human Body
$300.00 AUD
Edition: facsimile edCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the dawn of modern medicine, one landmark text forever changed how physicians understood disease within the human body — Matthew Baillie's...
Rivkin Unauthorised The Rise and Spectacular Fall of an Unorthodox
For the first time, the whole uncensored story of one of the financial world's most flamboyant characters. In some ways, Rene Rivkin's story was the classic tale of an immigrant...
Joseph Andrews
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the modern novel had found its footing, Henry Fielding set the template with Joseph Andrews, a...
A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back
David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as "the most exciting male dancer in...
Secondhand Interior Design & Houses Bargain Book Box SP4250
$120.00 AUD
Secondhand Interior Design & Houses Bargain Book Box SP4250 Eight large-format hardbacks with jackets: Houses and Gardens of Portugal, Houses and Palaces of Andalusia, New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, In...
Sandro Botticelli • The Medici Masters in Colour (No. 1)
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; 16 tipped on colour plates of paintings - identification and description of plates. Few artists in the...
Olive, Mabel & Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs
'Warm, funny, touching, uplifting' CLARE BALDING OLIVE & MABEL: two of the internet's favourite dogs! ANDREW COTTER: one of our best-loved commentators. In a year like no other, the antics...
The Rise of the Rogue Executive: How Good Companies Go Bad and How to
Billions of dollars continue to be lost by companies and investors due to the pervasive impact of manipulative, self-serving executives. Financial scandals aren't unknown in U.S. business history, but today's...
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and
$15.00 AUD
If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line until the eighteenth century, when the...
The Damnation of John Donellan: A mysterious case of death and scandal
In August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an...
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing Of Darwin, February 1942
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the morning of 19 February 1942, the skies above Darwin erupted in a devastating assault that would...
The Eagle and the Wolf (Age of Attila, Book 1)
'This is the best book I've read this year, hands down ' Conn Iggulden As Hun hordes and Germanic tribes maraud through Imperial lands, two legendary men - Attila the...
This Could Be Serious: An Innocent City Boy's Romantic Journey From Slum To Splendour Along The Explosive 70's Rock 'N' Roll Highway, Through Heartbreak And Happiness ... To The Virus
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; pages can have minimal notes and/or highlighting; signed ephemera laid in. What happens when a...
Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 'A fitting legacy left by a blazing talent' Observer 'A masterpiece' Andrew...
Leigh Bowery: The Life and Times of an Icon
A new edition of Sue Tilley's classic biography of the man described by Boy George as 'modern art on legs', updated to include never-before-seen photographs and a new chapter reflecting...
The Witching Hour: From the creators of The Haunting Season and The
' Now's the time to curl up with a ghostly tale - and this collection should be your go to!' Fabulous 'This cracking collection of spooky tales is perfect for...
Equal: How we fix the gender pay gap - 'A very important book' (Sandi
EQUAL is BBC journalist Carrie Gracie's urgent call to arms - a powerful story about how women can fight for equal pay, and how men and employers can help them....
Hammer Time: Me, West Ham, and a Passion for the Shirt
'pulls no punches' The Sun 'full of eventful tales from the past' Daily Mail 'punchy, earthy ... entertaining stories that capture football in an era long before sanitised PR and...
Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O and the Love
Peter Evans's biography of Aristotle Onassis, Ari , metwith great acclaim when it was published in 1986. Ariprovided the world with an unprecedented glimpse of theGreek shipping magnate's orbit of...
Bring Larks And Heroes
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the brutal crucible of a British penal colony at the edge of the known world, one soldier's...
Corporate Collapse: Accounting, Regulatory and Ethical Failure
This revised edition of Clarke, Dean and Oliver's provocative book tells why accounting has failed to deliver the truth about a company's state of affairs or to give warning of...
Secondhand Garden Bargain Book Box SP4249
$120.00 AUD
Secondhand Garden Bargain Book Box SP4249 Eight large garden books, nearly all hardback with jackets: Marina Schinz’s Visions of Paradise, Rosemary Verey’s Secret Gardens, David Hicks’s Cotswold Gardens, Mary Keen’s...
How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World's Last
The birth of new nations, independent democracies, the defeat of settler colonialism, the unprecedented growth of cities from Lagos to Cairo; the African continent is booming. So why do myths...
Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to
By the beginning of this century it was already commonplace to speak of the U. S. as a hyperpower, to talk of its military, political, and economic clout as unprecedented...
Storyland (children's edition): Discover the Magical Myths and Lost
"Enchanting, breathtaking and beautiful... If you need me, I'll be in Storyland" - Ben Miller DREAM OF THE HEROES AND MONSTERS RIGHT ON YOUR DOORSTEP. THIS IS WHERE WE BEGAN....
The Bookshelf For Boys And Girls (Ten-Volume Set)
$120.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedA treasured cornerstone of mid-century childhood education, The Bookshelf for Boys and Girls is a magnificent nine-volume encyclopedia of...
Building Classical: A Vision of Europe and America
The year 1992 was a milestone in the long debate between the Classical and Modernist camps, as it witnessed the unprecedented coincidence of two major classical exhibitions on opposite sides...