{"title":"Joyce Morgan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoyce Morgan\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts deeply engaging biographies and memoirs, bringing to life the stories of remarkable individuals with clarity and empathy. Her writing explores the nuanced complexities of character and history, inviting readers to connect with the personal journeys behind public lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom detailed portraits like \u003cem\u003eMartin Sharp\u003c\/em\u003e to evocative narratives such as \u003cem\u003eThe Countess from Kirribilli\u003c\/em\u003e, Morgan’s work offers a thoughtful blend of insight and storytelling that illuminates the diverse experiences shaping her subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-countess-from-kirribilli-by-joyce-morgan-9781760875176","title":"The Countess from Kirribilli","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShe was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court at which her friends were either in disgrace or favour, a butt or a blessing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth von Arnim may have been born on the shores of Sydney Harbour, but it was in Victorian London that she discovered society and society discovered her. She made her Court debut before Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace, was pursued by a Prussian count, and married into the formal world of the European aristocracy. It was the novels she wrote about that life that turned her into a literary sensation on both sides of the Atlantic and had her likened to Jane Austen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer marriage to the count produced five children but little happiness. Her second marriage to Bertrand Russell's brother was a disaster. But by then she had captivated the great literary and intellectual circles of London and Europe. She brought into her orbit the likes of Nancy Astor, Lady Maud Cunard, her cousin Katherine Mansfield, and other writers such as E.M. Forster, Somerset Maugham, and H.G. Wells, with whom it was said she had a tempestuous affair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth von Arnim was an extraordinary woman who lived during glamorous, exciting, and changing times that spanned the innocence of Victorian Sydney and finished with the march of Hitler through Europe. Joyce Morgan brings her to vivid and spellbinding life in \u003cem\u003eThe Countess from Kirribilli\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46846060003564,"sku":"9781760875176","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26138703482814.jpg?v=1758904042"},{"product_id":"martin-sharp-by-joyce-morgan-9781760111755","title":"Martin Sharp","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMartin wore tight pants that were striped red, white and blue, like a Union Jack, and an embroidered Afghan vest. In front of his face he carried, like a lollipop, a smile on a stick. As he went, he bowed to passers-by. Even on King's Road, he stood out.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMartin Sharp's art was as singular as his style. He blurred the boundaries of high art and low with images of Dylan, Hendrix and naked flower children that defined an era. Along the way, the irreverent Australian was charged with obscenity and collaborated with Eric Clapton as he drew rock stars and reprobates into his world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this richly told and beautifully written biography, Joyce Morgan captures the loneliness of a privileged childhood, the heady days of the underground magazine Oz as well as the exuberant creativity of Swinging London and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSharp pursued his quixotic dream to realise van Gogh's Yellow House in Australia. He obsessively championed eccentric singer Tiny Tim and was haunted by Sydney's Luna Park. Charismatic and paradoxical, he became a recluse whose phone never stopped ringing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere was no one like Martin Sharp. When he died, he was described as a stranger in a strange land who left behind a trail of stardust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461165072620,"sku":"9781760111755","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781760111755-martin-sharp.jpg?v=1774960418"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/joyce-morgan.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}