Peter Peter: 17025 books
Substance
Inside New Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Includes full set lists not included in the physical edition.
In this final installment of his internationally bestselling three-part memoir—including The Hacienda and Unknown Pleasures—British rocker Peter Hook focuses on the 1980s New Wave and Dance Punk scene and the rise of one of the...
You Never Give Me Your Money
The Beatles After the Breakup
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
“Peter Doggett’s book about the Beatles’ split is a real page-turner.” — Annie Lennox
“Enthralling… Impossible to put down.” — The Independent
Acclaimed journalist Peter Doggett recounts the previously untold story of the dramatic final chapter in the lives, loves,...
The Rainman's Third Cure
An Irregular Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
An “unforgettable” memoir of searching for enlightenment, from the actor, Zen teacher, and bestselling author of Sleeping Where I Fall (San Francisco Chronicle).
With a title inspired by a Bob Dylan lyric that Peter Coyote considers representative of two competing forces—the transcendental,...
Puttin' On the Ritz
Fred Astaire and the Fine Art of Panache, A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Fred Astaire defined elegance on the dance floor. With white tie, tails and a succession of elegant partners - Ginger Rogers, Cyd Charisse, Rita Hayworth, Eleanor Powell, Judy Garland and others - he created an indelible image of the Anglo bon vivant. His origins, though, were far more humble: Born...
The King's Cardinal
The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Proud, greedy, corrupt and driven by overwhelming personal ambition. Such is the traditional image of Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of York, Bishop of Winchester, Abbot of St. Albans, Bishop if Tournai and Papal Legate. It is an image which Peter Gwyn examines, challenges and decisively...
by Peter Fitzsimons
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Batavia is the greatest story in Australia�s history. The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, ship-wreck, love, lust, blood-lust,...
Warrior
The Legend Of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1998
Peter Hathaway Capstick died in 1996. At the time of his death, the world-renowned adventure writer was putting the finishing touches on this, a stirring and vivid biography of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a man with whom he felt he had much in common. Edited and prepared for publication by his...
J.M.W. Turner
Ackroyd's Brief Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this second volume in the Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brings us a man of humble beginnings, crude manners, and prodigious talents, the nineteenth-century painter J. M. W. Turner.
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. His father was...
Queen Unseen
My Life with the Greatest Rock Band of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
For more than a decade, Peter Hince worked alongside one of the greatest bands in the history of rock, touring the world and heading up their road crew. Here he recalls the highlights of those years. He was with Freddie Mercury when he composed "Crazy Little Thing Called Love;" he made...
Poe
A Life Cut Short
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Gothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, and dazzling, the life of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s greatest and most versatile writers, is the ideal subject for Peter Ackroyd. Poe wrote lyrical poetry and macabre psychological melodramas; invented the first fictional detective; and produced...
Looking for Trouble
A Journalist's Life ... and Then Some
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
"Peter Worthington's journey through history has been Homeric. He writes the way journalists were meant to write, with immediacy, clarity and courage." ~ William F. Buckley Jr.
Outspoken and colourful, legendary Canadian journalist Peter Worthington stirred controversy...
Mary's Mosaic
The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace: Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Explores the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer and her connected to President Kennedy
Ideal book for fans of The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much by Dorothy Kilgallen, Dr. Mary’s Monkey by Edward T. Haslam, and other JFK conspiracy books
Updated edition of the true crime...
Mr. Churchill's Profession
The Statesman as Author and the Book That Defined the "Special Relationship"
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize-for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work...
The Lives They Left Behind
Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum-the sort of community in which, for better and for worse, hundreds...