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Anthony Powell by Hilary Spurling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Peerless literary biographer Hilary Spurling turns her attention to Anthony Powell, an iconic figure of English letters. Equally notorious for his literary achievements and his lacerating wit, Powell famously authored the twelve-volume, twenty-five year magnum opus, A Dance to the Music of Time. This en ...Show more
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Life by Hilary Spurling
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times 'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Pros ...Show more
Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. She ran free on the grave-littered grasslands behind her house, often stumbling across the tiny bones of ba ...Show more
Invitation to the Dance - A handbook to Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary Criticism | Reading Level: good
"A unique reference book and an invaluable companion for even the most informed Anthony Powell fan. A Dance to the Music of Time is a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. As the reader cavorts through the 12-volume novel alongside the narrator Nicholas Jenkins, it soon becomes apparent that h ...Show more
John Russell: Australia's French Impressionist by Wayne Tunnicliffe; Hilary Spurling
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
A beautiful, highly illustrated book published in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Australian artist John Russell (1858-1930) was an active and influential member of the French 19 th century avant‐garde, he was a close friend of Tom Roberts, Vin ce ...Show more
Matisse the Master (Volume 2) by Hilary Spurling
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art/Decorative arts/Graphics
The Life of Henri Matisse (Volume 2: 1909-1954) In this astounding book (winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 2005) Hilary Spurling's fascinating exploration of Matisse's world uncovers the secret life of the artist, whose paintings shocked and infuriated his contemporaries while paving the way for ...Show more
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth by Hilary Spurling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
One of the twentieth century's most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in "The Good Earth," an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to become the firs ...Show more
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