Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated bureaucrat or serial political killer, but on a fuller ...Show more
Rifling Through My Drawers by Clarissa Dickson Wright
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
With her inimitable wit and outspoken views, Clarissa Dickson Wright opens her diary and takes us on a journey around Britain with this unrivalled collection of stories and anecdotes from her ever-eventful life. As celebrated cook and champion of the countryside, Clarissa's year includes being propositi ...Show more
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1 ...Show more
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen by Giles Tremlett
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents, Isabella and Ferdinand, the joint-rulers of Spain who had dri ...Show more
The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716-1783 by Jane Brown
$58.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe and the world. At home, it proved so pleasing that Brown's influ ...Show more
The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw by Sheila Hancock
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When John Thaw, star of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors and Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this unique double biography she chronicles their lives - personal and professional, together and apart. John Thaw was born in Manchest ...Show more
Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General by Mungo Melvin
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The story of the military genius Field Marshal Erich von Manstein chronicles the misguided generation of German generals in the Second World War who claimed they fought for Germany, not for Hitler and National Socialism. The polished, urbane von Manstein was no uncouth Nazi. He persuaded the British wri ...Show more
Hugh Trevor-Roper : The Biography by Adam Sisman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Hugh Trevor-Roper's life is a rich subject for a biography - with elements of Greek tragedy, comedy and moments of high farce. Clever, witty and sophisticated, Trevor-Roper was the most brilliant historian of his generation. Until his downfall, he seemed to have everything: wealth and connections, a cha ...Show more
Giant George by Dave Nasser & Lynne Barrett-Lee
$32.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 2006, Dave and Christie Nasser welcomed a Great Dane puppy into their lives - the runt of a litter of thirteen who won over the hearts of his new owners with his soulful blue eyes. They named him George and he swiftly changed their lives. In February 2010 George was officially crowned tallest dog eve ...Show more
A Nurse at War: Emily Peter, 1858-1927 by Joan Woodward & Glenys Mitchell
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
DoP Sept 2008, Christchurch Raised on a remote sheep farm in the Mid Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island, Emily Peters (1858-1927) had a remarkable career as a nurse. In the 1890s she travelled to the United Kingdom to train at Westminster Hospital. She then nursed in England and served as a ...Show more
The Life of Charles Dickens: The Illustrated Edition by John Forster
$59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
John Forster's original three-volume text is abridged and brought to life with the addition of illuminating extracts from Dickens' own work and from recent criticism, biography and fiction. It is also generously illustrated with materials including original artwork from the serial parts of Dickens' nove ...Show more
Wild Romance: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal by Chloe Schama
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1852, on a steamer from France to England, nineteen-year-old Theresa Longworth met William Charles Yelverton, a soldier destined to become the Viscount of Avonmore. Their flirtation soon blossomed into a clandestine, epistolary affair, and five years later they married secretly in Edinburgh. Then, th ...Show more