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Iris Murdoch: A Life: The Authorized Biography
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Iris Murdoch: A Life
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In "Iris Murdoch," Peter Conradi assesses the remarkable intellectual and cultural legacy of the celebrated philosopher and beloved novelist. Depicting her personal life in extraordinary detail -- her student days...
A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson
Gentle, modest and handsome, a fine poet, proficient in nine languages, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made an unlikely soldier. The elder of two sons of a formidable family of writers...
Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl -
Ernst Hanfstaengl was court jester, pianist, and foreign press chief for Hitler, he even claimed to have devised the chant of Sieg Heil, but when the two men fell out...
Where I Fell to Earth: A Life in Four Places
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Where I Fell to Earth: A Life in Four Cities
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A Song Of Love And Death: The Meaning Of Opera
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOpera has always been an art form of breathtaking extremes — of soaring passion, devastating tragedy, and the...
A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-45
Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a fascinating private memoir of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century and a remarkable historical document of...
The Dying Trade
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSydney's sun-drenched harbour conceals more than its fair share of shadows in The Dying Trade, the debut novel that launched Peter Corris's iconic...
Conrad: The Critical Heritage
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew authors have provoked as divided and passionate a critical response as Joseph Conrad, and Conrad: The Critical Heritage assembles the most significant contemporary...
At Home in Australia
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How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere
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The Dying Trade
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingSydney's glittering harbour has always concealed dark secrets, and in The Dying Trade, Peter Corris plunges readers into...
Heart of Darkness and The Complete Congo Diary
On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which...
Damned if I do
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The Dying Trade
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodSydney's sun-drenched underbelly has never looked more dangerous than in The Dying Trade, the debut novel that introduced Australian crime...
Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of
In recent years, evolutionary theorists have come to recognize that the reductionist, individualist, gene-centered approach to evolution cannot sufficiently account for the emergence of complex biological systems over time. Peter...
The Dying Trade
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersSydney's sun-drenched streets hide shadows darker than the harbour at midnight, and...
Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle
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Condition remarks: Condition: New/Excellent. - book is sealed in original publisher's shrink wrap. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few literary lives rival the sheer improbability of...
Peter Kennedy: The Man Who Threatened Rome
In February 2009 Father Peter Kennedy, of Saint Mary's Catholic Church in South Brisbane, was sacked by his Archbishop for contravening aspects of Catholic doctrine. This book is an assembly...
Joseph Conrad: A Study In Non-Conformity
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The Selected Works of Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim, first published in 1900, confirmed Conrad's place in literature as one of the first 'modernists' of English letters. Set in the Malay Archipelago, not only does the novel...
Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard
An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist,...
The Ways of Paradise
In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library...
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
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A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over...
Conrad And His World
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Good. Few literary figures cast as long a shadow as Joseph Conrad —...
Short Break in Venice
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The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad's centrality to modern literature is well established. The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad provides essential guidance to varied developments in the field of Conrad studies since the...
Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives
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Master of Bridge Psychology: Inside the Remarkable Mind of Peter
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This may be the funniest bridge biography you will ever read. Peter Fredin of Sweden won the 2009 European Pairs championship and is a multiple medalist in events at the...
Peter Smart's Confessions (SIGNED)
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Signed bookplate. Boards - good. Binding - tight. A quietly devastating work of literary fiction, Peter Smart's...
Under Western Eyes
A gripping novel that ultimately questions our capacity for moral strength and the depths of human integrity 'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words...
All the Colours of Darkness: DCI Banks 18
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Reading Freud: Explorations & Entertainments
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Author: Peter GayBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press., 1990Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Discoloured DJ from age, minor foxing to page edges.This intellectual history...
The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
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Extraordinary People: A stunning cold-case mystery from the bestselling author of The Lewis Trilogy (The Enzo Files Book 1)
Author: Peter May Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 MEET ENZO MACLEOD, AND BEGIN THE ADDICTIVE COLD-CASE SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND COFFIN...
Conrad Black - A Life in Progress: A Life in Progress
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Runaway: a high-stakes mystery thriller from the master of quality crime writing
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All the Colours of Darkness: DCI Banks 18
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The Collection
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 During the 1970s and the...
Inside Story: From ABC Foreign Correspondent to Singapore Prisoner #12988
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