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Composer, writer, painter and eccentric millionaire, Lord Berners led a life filled with music, art, travel and high society. PB Condition -good
Holroyd has done a masterly job of cutting down his huge biography to a lively and manageable one-volume life – the definitive Shaw for the general reader and the student. It has verve and pace,
For his entire professional life, British architect Cedric Price (1934-2003) reflected on the mechanisation of society and its effect on people’s lives. In the 1960s and 1970s Price searched for a new language in modern
The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the imageOnscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracys sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine
Are You There Crocodile? combines biographical material about the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov with a narration of Pennington’s efforts to write a one-man play about him; the book also includes the full text of the
Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson Charles Darwin: the man who discovered evolution? The man who killed off God? Or a flawed man of his age, part genius, part ruthless careerist who would
