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A Night at the Majestic by Richard Davenport-Hines
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
One May night in 1922, in a grand hotel in Paris, five of the greatest artists of the twentieth-century sat down to supper. It would be the only time that novelists Joyce and Proust, the young painter Picasso, choreographer Diaghilev and the composer Stravinsky were in a room together. Each of these exp ...Show more
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: good
A sharp focus snapshot of Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo Affair. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social rev ...Show more
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain by Richard Davenport-Hines
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies. E ...Show more
The Pursuit of Oblivion by Richard Davenport-Hines
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
The Pursuit of Oblivion is a history of drug-taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users: monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked physicians, oppressed housewives, exhausted labourers, high powered-businessmen, playboys, sex workers, ...Show more
The Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes by Richard Davenport Hines
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
From the bestselling author of 'An English Affair', a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century.
Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew by Richard Davenport-Hines
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The RMS Titanic was built as one of the world's largest and most luxurious liners. A marine Ritz, it was a 45,000-tonne hotel of thin steel plates, travelling at a speed of 21 knots across the North Atlantic. On the night of 14 April 1912, midway through her maiden voyage, the seemingly unsinkable ship ...Show more
Universal Man - The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes by Richard Davenport-Hines
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling and award-winning author of 'An English Affair', a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century. John Maynard Keynes is the man who saved Britain from financial crisis not once but twice - over the course of two W ...Show more
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