Biography

Sybil Thorndike

Sybil Thorndike, A Star of Life
by Jonathan Croall

Sybil Thorndike was one of the most remarkable women of the 20th century. Loved and admired as a great actress, she was also a feminist, a socialist and a pacifist, who fought throughout her long life for a better and more peaceful world.

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Price: £20.00

The Life of John Lennon

We all wanted to change the world
by John Wyse Jackson

The paperback version of 'The Life of John Lennon - We All Want to Change the World'

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Price: £7.99

Rembrandt

Images and Metaphors
by Christian Tümpel

Rembrandt used the achievements of his teachers, predecessors and contemporaries to develop and realise his own artistic aims and abilities, and it was to these too that he owed his basic artistic impulses. His urge to achieve unmistakable originality led him to overturn aesthetic and thematic conventions; he expanded technique and experimented with the use of colour and forms of etching. Although the art of the past always served him as a starting point, he sought to surpass it by staging works that were both unexpectedly daring and apposite to their subject.

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Virginia Woolf


by Anthony Curtis

'Virginia Woolf was clearly one of the great writers of the past century, but in what does her greatness consists?’ muses Anthony Curtis. ‘This book is an attempt to answer that question.'

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Florence Nightingale and The Viceroys


by Patricia Mowbray

A biography that reveals an aspect of Florence Nightingale’s life that has been largely overlooked. Her profound influence on health and welfare in India, on both rural life in the country and the conditions of soldiers sent out to serve in India during the high water mark of the British Empire.

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Price: £13.60