Dame Iris Murdoch has played a major role in English life and letter for nearly half a century. As A.S. Byatt notes, she is “absolutely central to our culture”. This biography reveals the women whose life, as a novelist, as a thinker, and as a private individual, has significance for our age.
Author : Iris Murdoch by Peter Conradi
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 653175
Price : £6.69
Fiction & Poetry > Letters, Diaries, Biographies & Autobiographies
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Iris Murdoch
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Dec
Browning
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Dec
Gaudi
31
Dec
A precurser to Picasso, Dali and Bunuel, Antoni Gaudi created dramatically original and daring art that was to surpass and reinvent all that had gone before. In life and in death, Gaudi lived by extravagant gestures and a creativity that bordered on madness.
Author : Gaudi by Gijs Van Hensbergen
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 6548784
Price : £8.03
Fiction & Poetry > Letters, Diaries, Biographies & Autobiographies
Emma’s War
31
Dec
This is the story of aid worker Emma McCune. Beautiful, compassionate, driven in her work, she was famous throughout eastern Africa and the aid community for going about her work in a mini-skirt. Initially a Princess Diana, she became a Lady Macbeth after marrying a local warlord.
Author : Emma’s War by Deborah Scroggins
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 6551475
Price : £5.35
Fiction & Poetry > Letters, Diaries, Biographies & Autobiographies
Rosalind Franklin
31
Dec
This biography tells the story of Rosalind Franklin – the single-minded young scientist whose contribution to arguably one of the most significant discoveries of all time went unrecognized, elbowed aside in the rush for glory, and who died too young to recover her claim to some of that reputation.
Author : Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 6552110
Price : £6.69
Fiction & Poetry > Letters, Diaries, Biographies & Autobiographies
Popper
31
Dec
Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged by a variety of scholars. This work demonstrates Popper’s importance across the whole range of philosophy and provides an introduction to the main themes of philosophy itself.
Author : Popper by Bryan Magee
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 6860087
Price : £4.68
Fiction & Poetry > Letters, Diaries, Biographies & Autobiographies
The World of Gerard Mercator
31
Dec
The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic.
Author : The World of Gerard Mercator by Andrew Taylor
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 7100817
Price : £6.02
Fiction & Poetry > Letters, Diaries, Biographies & Autobiographies
Johnson on Savage
31
Dec
‘LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD’ a radical new series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. E
Author : Johnson on Savage by Richard Holmes (Editor), Samuel Johnson
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 711169
Price : £4.68
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Paulo Coelho
31
Dec
These conversational-style interviews with Paul Coehlo cover: Paul’s being institutionalized as a young man for his artistic leanings; his kidnapping and torture by paramilitaries; his experiences with Black Magic and drugs; and his views on the nature of writing and the spiritual quest.
Author : Paulo Coelho by Juan Arias
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 7114370
Price : £5.35
Fiction & Poetry > Letters, Diaries, Biographies & Autobiographies
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt
31
Dec
A fabulously wealthy New York beauty marries a cold-hearted British aristocrat at the behest of her Machiavellian mother, and then leaves him to become a prominent Suffragette. This biography tells of the life of a mother and daughter. It is also an account of how both women went on to dedicate their lives to philanthropic causes.
Author : Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number : 7127316
Price : £6.02
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