Arts biographies

Sort by:
Showing 11-20 of 175 results

Trials of Radclyffe Hall

By Diana Souhami

Paperback

Published 28-Mar-2013


RRP: £12.99
Our price: £10.39
You save: £2.60

The scandalous life of one of England's great eccentrics.


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Real Jane Austen

By Paula Byrne

Hardback

Published 17-Jan-2013


RRP: £25.00
Our price: £20.00
You save: £5.00

Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books.


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Beyond the Page

By Quentin Blake

Hardback

Published 15-Nov-2012


RRP: £19.99
Our price: £15.99
You save: £4.00

The author is one of the best-known illustrators in the world, creating iconic characters for amongst others Russell Hoban, Joan Aiken, Michael Rosen, and Roald Dahl. In this title, he writes about his projects and describes his working processes, his collaborators, his travels, and his various projects and commissions.


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Fifth Avenue, 5am

By Sam Wasson

Paperback

Published 03-Jan-2013


RRP: £8.99
Our price: £7.19
You save: £1.80

This is the story of how one shy, uncertain, inexperienced young actress was persuaded to take on a role she at first thought too hard-edged and amoral


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Pigs Might Fly

By Mark Blake

Paperback

Published 07-Mar-2013


RRP: £12.00
Our price: £9.60
You save: £2.40

Mark Blake's history of Pink Floyd - the first for fifteen years - has already been acknowledged as the final word on this remarkable band's life.


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Daphne Du Maurier and Her Sisters

By Jane Dunn

Hardback

Published 28-Feb-2013


RRP: £25.00
Our price: £17.99
You save: £7.01

Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography.


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Rin Tin Tin

By Susan Orlean

Paperback

Published 01-May-2013


RRP: £8.99
Our price: £7.19
You save: £1.80

'Rin Tin Tin is a remarkable book... A wonderfully entertaining account of one of the strangest partnerships in a very strange milieu' --John Banville, Guardian


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Unknown Pleasures

By Peter Hook

Paperback

Published 25-Apr-2013


RRP: £9.99
Our price: £7.99
You save: £2.00

The story of Joy Division told by the band's legendary bassist, Peter Hook. .


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Just Kids

By Patti Smith

Paperback

Published 04-Jan-2011


RRP: £8.99
Our price: £7.19
You save: £1.80

Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Saul Bellow's Heart

By Greg Bellow

Hardback

Published 11-Apr-2013


RRP: £20.00
Our price: £14.00
You save: £6.00

In this warm, affectionate, yet strikingly honest look inside the life of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers, the son of the Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow offers a view of a man known to be quick to anger, prone to argument, and palpably vulnerable to criticism.


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

< Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Next >

This week's bestsellers

1
7.19
2Racing Hard
William Fotheringham
3Modernity Britain
David Kynaston
4Hook, Line and Singer
Cerys Matthews
5Quarry
Iain Banks
6This Boy
Alan Johnson
7North
Paul Morley
8Things That are
Amy Leach
9Ovid's Heroines
Clare Pollard
10Burning Question
Mike Berners-Lee
Follow us on twitter