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The Romanovs : Ruling Russia 1613-1917 by Lindsey Hughes
$42.00 AUD
Category: History
This book presents a vivid and original portrait of the entire Romanov family, who shaped Russian history and politics for three centuries and whose legacy still sparks the public's imagination. For 300 years the history of Russia was inextricably linked to that of one family: The Romanovs. Claiming a d ...Show more
The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies by Lloyd Hughes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Film & TV
From The Godfather to Get Carter, tales of organized crime have produced many of the big screen's greatest films and most memorable moments. The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies gives you the low-down on all aspects of the genre. It's all here, from James Cagney and his fellow 1930s mobsters right up to t ...Show more
The School Bag by Ted Hughes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The new anthology is designed to present a great range of poetry in a fresh and accessible way. Allowing no more than one poem, or passage of poetry, to any poet, the editors have chosen not only work from the established canon of poetry in the English language, but examples, too, from the different lan ...Show more
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositi ...Show more
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: 60th Anniversary Edition
This legendary book has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written. Through each of the thematic chapters Hughes keeps his story grounded in the history of the 20th century, demonstrating how modernism sought to describe the experie ...Show more
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A tour de force of writing on art This legendary book has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written. Through each of the thematic chapters Hughes keeps his story grounded in the history of the 20th century, demonstrating how modern ...Show more
The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton by Kathryn Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Kathryn Hughes reveals here that Bella Beaton was a million miles away from the stoical, middle-aged matron. She was in fact only 25 years old when she created the guide to successful family living and had only had five years experience of her own to inform her. She lived in a semi-detached house in Pin ...Show more
The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
" I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it s an expert gardener at wor ...Show more
The Spectacle of Skill: Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes; Adam Gopnik (Introduction by)
$95.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
"I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it's an expert gardener at work ...Show more
The Thought Fox: Collected Animal Poems Vol 4 by Ted Hughes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
All the richness of the wild is seen through the poet's eye. Here are poems from Hawk in the Rain, Wodwo, Wolfwatching, Lupercal and River as well as from Adam and the Sacred Nine, their juxtaposition highlighting the variety of the natural world and of Hughes's poetry about it.
The Tigerboy by Ted Hughes
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Faber Children's Classics
A very ordinary boy. Nobody noticed him, he was just like everyone else. But Fred knew he was different. He just didn't know quite how different. And when he did...Well, what then?
The Ways of White Folks (Vintage Deco) by Langston Hughes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in the 1920s and '30s.A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic intera ...Show more