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A Tokyo Romance - A Memoir by Ian Buruma
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments. Through his adventures in the world of avant-garde theatre, his encounters with carnival act ...Show more
Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah by Ian Buruma
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by strong moral principles despite his disbelief in an al ...Show more
The Churchill Complex by Ian Buruma
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit.
The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit by Ian Buruma
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit.
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
In this spellbinding account of three World War Two collaborators, prize-winning historian Ian Buruma examines questions of truth as he investigates their complex and tangled lives.
Their Promised Land My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school at Uppingham and Win was taking music lessons in Hampstead. They were married for more than sixty years, ...Show more
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
"Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath of the worldwide catastrophe. Drawing on hundred ...Show more
Year Zero:The History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath of the worldwide catastrophe.Drawing on hundreds ...Show more
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