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Anthony Powell by Hilary Spurling
$22.99 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 Hardbacks
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
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This is a thrilling portrait of the extraordinary childhood of Pearl Buck, the now-forgotten bestselling Nobel Prize winning novelist. 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 ...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
John Russell: Australia's French Impressionist by Wayne Tunnicliffe; Hilary Spurling
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
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 Life by Hilary Spurling
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
HENRI MATISSE, one of the greatest innovators of twentieth-century painting, was an intensely private person.It was not until half a century after his death that Hilary Spurling's two-part biography cleared away the fog of inaccurate guesswork and gossip that obscured both the man and at times his work. ...Show more
Matisse the Master : A life of Henri Matisse - the conquest of colour, 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling
$69.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 This is the second and final volume of the first true biography of Henri Matisse. Until publication of The Unknown Matisse (Volume One), the few facts known about Matisse's life had been distorted by inaccuracy, misunderstanding and glaring gaps ...Show more
Matisse the Master (Volume 2) by Hilary Spurling
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
The Unknown Matisse (Volume 1) by Hilary Spurling
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
'Hilary Spurling's "The Unknown Matisse" is a truly wonderful biography. Her prose is muscular, rhythmical, carrying a lot of information, yet swift, enthralling. She has done for Matisse what George Painter famously did for Proust in the 1950s. Besides being a first-rate scholar, she is an artist in na ...Show more
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