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Andy Warhol (Great Lives) by Wayne Koestenbaum
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives Ser.
'Properly analytical ... always entertaining' TIME OUT'Should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people who have trouble imagining how popular art can challenge the status quo' L A TIMESPainter, filmmaker, photographer, philosopher, all-round celebrity, Andy Warho ...Show more
Catherine The Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Great Lives Ser.
The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development and welfar ...Show more
Charles Dickens (Great Lives) by Jane Smiley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives Ser.
Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES'Engaging and stimulating' Simon Callow'Jane Smiley, in her admirable contribution to Weidenfeld's series of short biographies, deals briskly with Dickens's career and w ...Show more
David Bowie by Robert Dimery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gift Ideas | Series: Lives of the Musicians Ser.
A relentless innovator, scoring chart hits while simultaneously incorporating radical and ground-breaking elements into his work. As with all great pop stars, Bowie's image changed with almost every new album release. This appetite for reinvention, both musically and visually, saw him dubbed the 'chamel ...Show more
David Hockney by James Cahill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art Photography & Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
The latest addition to the 'Lives of the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the world's greatest artistsDavid Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north of England in the 1960s, he made ...Show more
Flush by Virginia Woolf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
Virginia Woolf's humorous biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel is charming yet also radical. A work of sensuous imagination, it opens up a range of questions about class, society, and cultural attitudes which are woven throughout the whole of Woolf's writing. We are delighted to publish th ...Show more
Frida Kahlo - Lives of the Artists series by Hettie Judah
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art Photography & Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll, children's book character, textile print, phone cover, and the inspiration for everything from cocktails to fashion shoots. But it is more difficult to get a clear vision of this bold and brillia ...Show more
Genet by Edmund White
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
'This biography is elegant meticulous and wholly satisfying' Sunday TelegraphFROM THE AUTHOR OF A BOY'S OWN STORY AND THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY'A superb introduction to the great novelist and playwright, vagabond, thief and convict, and to the brutal childhood from which he mined his remarkable vision' J G ...Show more
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Lives Ser.
Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all time.'Splendid ... a gem' LITERARY REVIEW'An excellent biography' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Shields on Austen offers up a delicious prospect. And we are not disappointed' SCOTSMANJane Austen was one of t ...Show more
Keith Haring by Simon Doonan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gift Ideas | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life. Brought to life by Simon Doonan, Creative Director for Barneys New York, this new pocket-sized biography tells his inspirational story. Revolutionary and renegade, Keith Haring was an artist for t ...Show more
Kusama : A Graphic Biography by Elisa Macellari
$29.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Graphic Lives Ser.
From rural Japan to international icon Yayoi Kusama has spent her remarkable life immersed in her art. Follow her incredible journey in this vivid graphic biography which details her bold departure from Japan as a young artist, her embrace of the buzzing New York art scene in the 1960s, and her eventual ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor by Donald J. Robertson
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy This novel biography brings Marcus Aurelius (121–180 CE) to life for a new generation of readers by exploring the emperor’s fascinating psychological journey. Don ...Show more