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Wild at Heart - The Dangers and Delights of a Nomadic Life by Miriam Lancewood
$18.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Gripping sequel to the international bestseller Woman in the Wilderness, Miriam Lancewood's story of the quest for a simple life, unfettered by society's norms. Miriam Lancewood's first book Woman in the Wilderness told her story of living for seven years in the wilderness of New Zealand with her hus ...Show more
Letters from a Lost Generation First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends by Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge (eds)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915. This selection of letters, written between 1913 & 1918, between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, ...Show more
The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
An inside account of the Soong family, whose wealth and power have dominated China and U.S.-Asia policy in the 20th century.
One Hundred Summers by Vanessa Branson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Taking the reader on a journey from the dying embers of Edwardian England, through the trauma of two world wars, the hedonism of London in the 1980s and 'Cool Britannia' in the 1990s right up to the present day, One Hundred Summers is a portrait of a century as it was experienced by one extraordinary fa ...Show more
De Niro:A Biography by John Baxter
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Robert De Niro is the pre-eminent Hollywood character performer of our time: film portraits like the young Don Vito Corleone in "The Godfather II", Jake La Motta in "Raging Bull" and Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" are some of the most vivid ever put on celluloid. De Niro cannot be cast to type, prefers ...Show more
Eric Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Eric Clapton is far more than a rock star. Like Dylan and McCartney he is an icon and a living legend. He has sold tens of millions of records, played sell-out concerts all over the world and been central to the significant musical developments of his era. His guitar playing has seen him hailed as 'God' ...Show more
The Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford
$10.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
What would you find if you went back and re-read all of your favourite books from childhood? Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness, in this memoir of a boy who retreats into books, faced with a tragedy in his family.
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci : The flights of the mind by Charles Nicholl
$14.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: near fine
Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years in all t ...Show more
Empress of the East - How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire by Leslie Peirce
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as a concubine for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and one of the world's most powerful men. Suleyman became besotted wit ...Show more
My Old Man: Tales of Our Fathers by Edited by Ted Kessler
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
If you were asked to write about your father, what would you say? No two paternal relationships are the same. Every experience, every bond, is unique. And whether happy or sad, fond or fraught, the memories and stories we have about our dads stay with us for ever. In this carefully curated collection, a ...Show more
Nab End and Beyond: An Extraordinary Northern Childhood - The Road to Nab End and Beyond Nab End by William Woodruff
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn - a treat was sh ...Show more
