Newton by Peter Ackroyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Brief Lives | Reading Level: very good
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote: "I was in the prime of age for invention." Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, ...Show more
Poe : A LIfe Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor of the "Literary Messenger" he was influential among critics and writers of the Ameri ...Show more
Turner by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Brief Lives | Reading Level: very good
James Mallord William Turner was a Londoner through and through. His father had a barber's shop in Covent Garden, his mother came from a line of London butchers. He was brought up in Maiden Lane (the family moving at some point from the south side of the street to the north side). He was short and pugna ...Show more
Chaucer ( Brief Lives - Volume 1 ) by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Brief Lives S.
Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of his comedy behind. In truth a great deal is known of him. He was a royal servant, who was indicted for rap ...Show more
Henry Handel Richardson A Life by Michael Ackland
$36.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Henry Handel Richardson has been celebrated for her classic Australian novels: The Getting of Wisdom and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. However, her own life story remains to be told. This book, accordingly, provides the first complete biography of the enigmatic Australian literary icon, shedding new l ...Show more
Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court ...Show more
Irina : Ballet, Life and Love by Irina Baronova
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Irina Baronova, the youngest of the celebrated three baby ballerinas who captivated audiences world-wide in the 1930s with the tours of the Ballets Russes, retired to Byron Bay in Australia. Neither Tamara Toumanova, nor Tatiana Riabouchinska ever considered telling the story of their brilliant careers. ...Show more
Irina : Ballet, Life & Love by Irina Baronova
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Irina Baronova was born into a privileged family, whose world was changed forever by the Bolsheviks. They fled Russia to poverty in Bucharest, but Irina's mother was determined that her daughter learn ballet. Her first lessons were taken with the kitchen table as a barre. Her family struggled to take ...Show more
Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I don't believe in God, but I miss him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. T ...Show more