Letters From A Prince: Edward, Prince of Wales, to Mrs Freda Dudley Ward by Godrey Rupert
$20.00 AUD
Category: Historical
While the correspondence between the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson has been preserved and published, it had been thought that many of the Prince of Wales' letters to his earlier mistress, Mrs. Freda Dudley Ward, had been destroyed by her sometime before her death. But in November 1996, while holida ...Show more
Between the Woods and the Water by FERMOR Patrick
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Category: Biography | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in "A Time of Gifts" The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933--to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day--proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed int ...Show more
Hard Time: Life with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in America's Toughest Jail by Shaun Attwood
$37.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Shaun Attwood was a millionaire day trader in Phoenix, Arizona, but his hedonistic lifestyle of drugs and parties came to an abrupt end in 2002 when a SWAT team broke down his door. Attwood found himself on remand in Maricopa Jail with a $750,000 cash bond and all of his assets seized. The nightmare was ...Show more
Paul Robeson: A Watched Man by Jordan Goodman
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Paul Robeson was one of the most famous people in the world; to his enemies he was also one of the most dangerous. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the African American singer was the voice of the people, both on stage and as a political activist who refused to be silenced as he fought for the rights of the ...Show more
Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted by Andrew Wilson
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Category: Literary
On 25 February 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. The sensational aspects of the Plath-Hughes relationship have dominated the cultural landscape to such an extent that their story has taken on the resonance of a modern myth. Before she met Te ...Show more
What! And Give Up Showbiz? by Rusty Berther
$29.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In the entertainment industry there has always been an unspoken law that 'whatever happens on the road, stays on the road'⦠Until now! Stars of the entertainment industry tell their behind-the-scenes tales of laughter and disaster drawn from their showbiz experiences. By Rusty Berther, the author of t ...Show more
The Virgin's Baby: The Battle of the Ampthill Succession by Bevis Hillier
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Category: Biography
In 1921 the Hon Mrs Christobel Russell, a famously spirited society beauty and the wife of the heir to Lord Ampthill, became pregnant while still a virgin, and gave birth to a son. Her virtue being challenged, she was medically examined by doctors and declared to be virgo intacta, despite her marriage. ...Show more
Those Wild Wyndhams : Three Sisters at the Heart of Power by Claudia Renton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Three sisters - beautiful, cultured and aristocratic, born into immense wealth during the reign of Queen Victoria. Their dramatic lives are here unfolded in a rich historical biography certain to appeal to fans of Downton Abbey, 'Georgiana' and Stella Tillyard's 'Aristocrats'. Mary, Madeline and Pamela ...Show more
Love Letters of the Great War by Mandy Kirkby
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Category: Historical
From the private papers of Winston Churchill to the tender notes of an unknown Tommy in the trenches, Love Letters of the Great War brings together some of the most romantic correspondence ever written. Some of the letters collected here are eloquent declarations of love and longing; others contain wren ...Show more
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics by Michael Ignatieff
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Category: Biography | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised--should the governing Conservatives falter--to become Canada's next Prime Minister. It ne ...Show more
The Man In The Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal
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Category: Historical
In 2008, Clark Rockefeller, wealthy scion of a great American family, made headlines when he kidnapped his own daughter and vanished. The FBI and police were baffled. Despite tips and apparent sightings pouring in from the outraged public, every lead was a dead end, because 'Clark Rockefeller' did not e ...Show more