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A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James Hamilton
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles the streets and institutions, its catalyst time, its control the market. In this rich and fascinating b ...Show more
Amazing Disgrace by James Hamilton-Paterson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gerald Samper is a ghost writer to the stars: rock singers, racing drivers and ski champions. And to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, whose round-the-world voyage has made her the toast of Britain and the poster-girl for the Deep Blues, a mystical and nutty environmental group. Gerald pines ...Show more
Constable - A Portrait by James Hamilton
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday TimesJohn Constable, the revolutionary nineteenth-century painter of the landscapes and skies of southern England, is Britain's best-loved but perhaps least understood artist.His paintings r ...Show more
Loving Monsters by James Hamilton-Paterson
$16.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A chance encounter in a local store leads a writer to undertake to record the life of his neighbour, the enigmatic Raymond Jerningham Jebb; 'Jayjay' to his friends, self-styled impostor and lover. From the terrace of his Tuscan villa Jayjay offers him a biographer's dream: a no-holds barred account of a ...Show more
Stuck Monkey: The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love by James Hamilton-Paterson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
People hunting monkeys in the jungle once devised a simple yet effective trap- When the creature found a banana in a large jar with a narrow neck, it would plunge its paw in to retrieve it. But it couldn't let go. And unless the monkey released the banana, it was stuck.We are, of course, the stuck monke ...Show more
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