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Chopin by Ates Orga
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
A series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against a social background of their times. Each book draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings - and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer's life
Christine de Pizan - Life, Work, Legacy by Charlotte Cooper-Davis
Category: Biography | Series: Medieval Lives Ser.
The first popular biography of a pioneering feminist thinker and writer of medieval Paris. The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the cultural heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned the tools of the book trade, writing more than fo ...Show more
Churchill by Sir John Keegan
Category: Fiction | Series: Lives Ser.
The greatest politician and statesmen of the 20th century - by Britain's leading military historian.Was Churchill as a great a wartime leader as he has hitherto been made out? John Keegan discusses the view of the soldiers such as Alanbrooke, his wartime Chief of Staff, and considers Churchill the polit ...Show more
Cleopatra - Her History, Her Myth by Francine Prose
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
Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth by Francine Prose
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy
Crassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard
Category: Biography | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military gloryMarcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic am ...Show more
Crassus - The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic a ...Show more
Crocodile the Gardener by Anna Gkoutzouri (Illustrator)
Category: Board Books | Series: Who Lives Here? Ser.
Curtin's Gift : Reinterpreting Australia's Greatest Prime Minister by John Edwards
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Brief Lives Ser.
A fresh and thoughtful look at one of Australia's greatest prime ministers, John Curtin.
D H Lawrence (the Savage Pilgrim) by C. Carswell
Category: Biography | Series: Literary Lives Ser.
Traces D H Lawrence's troubled existence back to his working-class origins and gives a description of his life during the First World War after The Rainbow had been banned, when no-one would publish his work, and he became desperately poor.
DIVINE MADNESS OF PHILIP K DICK by ARNOLD KYLE
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Inner Lives Ser.
Widely recognized as one of the most imaginative writers of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick helped to shape science fiction into the popular genre it is today. His stories, renowned for their sophisticated philosophical themes and startling portrayals of simulated realities, inspired numerous televisio ...Show more
DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH by FAIRCLOUGH PAULINE
Category: Biography | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Dmitry Shostakovich was one of the most successful composers of the twentieth century--a musician who adapted as no other to the unique pressures of his age. By turns vilified and feted by Stalin during the Great Purge, Shostakovich twice came close to succumbing to the whirlwind of political repression ...Show more