Jeffrey Vance; Tony Maietta California University Press 2008 Hardback Illustrated
They were a small band of pioneers, dedicated to breathing life into the movie industry: Fairbanks, Chaplin and Mary Pickford. Skilfully blending biogThey were a small band of pioneers, dedicated to breathing life into the movie industry: Fairbanks, Chaplin and Mary Pickford. Skilfully blending biography with film history, and vividly illustrated with stills and off-screen photos, this absorbing book charts their friendship, and the tragic trajectory of Fairbanks's career: the excitement of his swashbuckling dramas of the 1920s, the eclipse that followed the arrival of talking pictures, financial troubles, the collapse of his marriage to Pickford, and his early death. ...more
£34.95 now £4.99 Stock code: 88056 Qty Add to basket
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Frances Stonor Saunders Faber 2010 Hardback
Passionate, idealistic and independent, the Honourable Violet Gibson rejected her Anglo-Irish upbringing to find inspiration in Catholicism. In 1926, Passionate, idealistic and independent, the Honourable Violet Gibson rejected her Anglo-Irish upbringing to find inspiration in Catholicism. In 1926, as Mussolini dragged her beloved Italy into the horrors of fascism, she tried to assassinate him. Written with sharp irony and the narrative verve of a novel, this sympathetic biography reinstates a lost heroine who almost changed the course of history, only to be consigned to a lunatic asylum by a British establishment that still viewed Italy's tyrant as a saviour....more
£20.00 now £3.99 Stock code: 87934 Qty Add to basket
The Nine Lives of Otto Katz The Remarkable Story of a Communist Super-Spy Jonathan Miles Bantam 2010 Hardback Illustrated
To the FBI he was an 'extremely dangerous man'; the British Secret Service wondered if he was the 'director of all Communist policy in the West'. HereTo the FBI he was an 'extremely dangerous man'; the British Secret Service wondered if he was the 'director of all Communist policy in the West'. Here, Jonathan Miles goes in search of the real Otto Katz (1895-1952), a brilliant, double-dealing and daring spy; the charming socialite in Europe and Hollywood who served a dictator - Stalin - in Moscow. Using recently released FBI, MI5 and Czech files, Miles tells the story of the life (or lives) of one of the world's most influential and intriguing spies. ...more
£20.00 now £3.99 Stock code: 86393 Qty Add to basket
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
Cathy Porter (Translated by) Alma 2010 Paperback
'Every unhappy family,' wrote Tolstoy, 'is unhappy in its own way.' That was certainly true of his own. From Sofia's discovery, as a young bride, of a'Every unhappy family,' wrote Tolstoy, 'is unhappy in its own way.' That was certainly true of his own. From Sofia's discovery, as a young bride, of a mistress and son on Tolstoy's estate, to the dying man's quixotic attempt to leave her, life with the quarrelsome genius was a series of disillusionments. Yet Sofia's diaries are testament to an indomitable woman who, in the face of provocation and suffering, continued to strive for the higher things in life. ...more
£34.95
£20.00
£20.00
£9.99
£13.99
£20.00
£25.00
£20.00
£20.00
£12.99
£20.00
£65.00
£14.99
£66.00
On Facebook
On Twitter
Subscribe to email offers
