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Firing by Dutton, Ninette
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Imprint Lives Ser.
In this autobiography, Ninette Dutton recounts growing up in conservative Adelaide before World War II, marrying and setting off for England and Europe, and finally establishing her metier.
Flush by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic 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
Force Benedict by Eric Carter
Category: History | Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories Ser.
Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not under Nazi occupation. If Murmansk fell, Soviet resistance ...Show more
Francis Crick Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
Category: Science | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life. Building on a biographical tradition that can be traced back to Aubrey's 'Brief Lives', Dr Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets' and Lytton Strachey's 'Eminent Victorians', this e ...Show more
Frantz Fanon by James S. Williams
Category: Philosophy | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
A biography of the revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist. Doctor, militant, essayist, ambassador, teacher, journalist, pan-Africanist, Frantz Fanon sought to decolonize mid-twentieth-century culture as he embodied a new kind of intellectual. Born in colonial Martinique, he fought for France durin ...Show more
Franz Kafka by Jeremy Adler
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Penguin Illustrated Lives S.
The name of Franz Kafka is synonymous with a nightmare vision of the modern world in which the individual is in a perpetual state of struggle. This book contains an illustrated biography of Kafka, his friends, family - including his demonic father who called his son an "insect" - and influences.
Frida Kahlo - Lives of the Artists series by Hettie Judah
Category: Art and 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
Friedrich Nietzsche by Ritchie Robertson
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
An accessible and informative study of the life and work of this vaunted German philosopher. In this concise yet comprehensive critical biography, Ritchie Robertson examines the work of Friedrich Nietzsche within the context of his life. The book traces Nietzsche's development from outstanding classical ...Show more
From the Ashes of Sobibor - A Story of Survival by Thomas Toivi Blatt; Christopher R. Browning (Foreword by)
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival is an invaluable, firsthand account of a child's survival in a Nazi concentration camp in Poland during World War II. When the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Thomas Toivi Blatt was twelve years old. He and his family lived in the largely Jewis ...Show more
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE by SCOTT NANCY J
Category: Art Literature | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Georgia O'Keeffe, the most famous woman artist of American modernism and a pioneer in abstract art, created a vision without precedent. She expressed the grandeur of her world in the Southwest, from the high desert mesas to the smallest flower, with fierce independence. And a separate world has risen up ...Show more
Gandhi: The Peaceful Revolutionary by Anna Claybourne
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous Lives S.
Born to a Hindu family in India in 1869, Mahatma Gandhi devoted his life to politics and non-violent protest. This work charts the life of Mahatma Gandhi, president of the Indian National Congress and peaceloving protestor for independence. It explains how the creation of Pakistan for Muslims, led to Mu ...Show more
Genet by Edmund White
Category: Biography | 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