Biographies

Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph

*A BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2021 IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARD...

€25.20 -10%

€22.60

The Comrade from Milan

A striking account of the European Left in the twentieth century by one of its main protagonists...

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€31.40

Alone against Hitler: Kurt von Schuschnigg's Fight to Save Austria from the Nazis

Alone Against Hitler tells the lesser-known but pivotal story of former Austrian chancellor Kurt von...

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€28.90

Machiavelli: His Life and Times

A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machia...

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€16.40

Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life

'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' – Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Bi...

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€25.00

The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake

A 'humane and informative' (according to John Le Carré) biography of George Blake, the most notoriou...

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€18.90

A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion

The definitive biography of Israel's founder by one of Israel's most celebrated historians.As the fo...

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€18.80

An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida

Philosopher, film star, father of “post truth”—the real story of Jacques Derrida Who is Jacques Der...

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€21.40

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)New Books to Watch Out for in October, New York TimesB...

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€37.70

Veblen: the Making of an Economist who Unmade Economics

A bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how...

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€38.60

Goering's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world"A well...

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€31.40

Bach (Master Musicians Series)

Bach has remained a figure of continuous fascination and interest to scholars and readers since the...

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€28.80

Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins

One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2019The first biography of a visionary twen...

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€24.00

First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong

In First Man, Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over 50 hours of interviews with...

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€9.00

Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag

Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, t...

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€36.80

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