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Amy Winehouse by Kate Solomon
29.99 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Series: Lives of the Musicians Ser.
In her intense, brief life, Amy Winehouse's music spoke directly to millions. And since her death, her fans have only increased. Amy Winehouse is one of those pop stars that comes along so rarely we're not sure we knew what we had when we had her. Her story speaks to us not because the relentless tabloi ...Show more
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
Antoni Gaudí by Michael Eaude
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
An accessible account of the contradictory life and work of the modernist Catalan architect. The celebrated art nouveau architect Antoni Gaudí was a contradictory figure: a deeply religious, politically right-wing man who nevertheless built revolutionary buildings. This book explores Gaudí's life, wor ...Show more
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard
39.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with vigorous female protagonists chime with modern audiences, and she ...Show more
Arthur Miller - American Witness by John Lahr
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights. Distinguished theater critic John Lahr brings unique perspective to the life of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), the playwright who almost single-handedly propelled twentiet ...Show more
Ben Hecht - Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman
37.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayistHe was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies t ...Show more
Beyonce (small HB) by Tshepo Mokoena
24.99 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Series: Lives of the Musicians Ser.
Beyonc is not simply a pop sensation. She is a cultural phenomenon empowering the oppressed and dispossessed, challenging white privilege and misogyny and exploding gender politics. But who is Beyonc Knowles-Carter and how did a small girl from Houston become the strong confident woman whose albums sell ...Show more
Botticelli: Artist and Designer by Ana Debenedetti
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Category: Art | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
In this vivid account Ana Debenedetti examines the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, through the lens of the organisation of his workshop and the commercial strategies he devised to make his way in the very competitive art market in Florence at that time. She looks at the remarkable ...Show more
Catherine The Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
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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
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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
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
An entertaining biography of Charles Dickens by one of our finest actors Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language. From his ...Show more
Cleopatra - Her History, Her Myth by Francine Prose
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Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacyThe siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyon ...Show more