Falling Leaves - The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dramais played against the extraordinary political events in ...Show more
Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg by James MacManus
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The dramatic true-life story of George Hogg, a young Oxford graduate who is caught up in the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and the Chinese Civil war, and who leads a group of Chinese children hundreds of miles across 15,000-foot mountains to safety -- only to die tragically in early 1945. The autho ...Show more
The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford by Robert W. P. Cutler
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco. The inquest testimony of the physicians who attended her death in Hawaii led to a coroner's jury verdict of murder--by strychnine poisoning. Stanford University ...Show more
The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London by Lisa Hilton
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'I've given up everything - my friends, my family, my country, & he simply roared with laughter, and then of course so did I' - Nancy Mitford THE HORROR OF LOVE is a story about two people - Nancy Mitford and the Free French commander Gaston Palewski - who conducted a less than ideal love affair in ...Show more
Queen of Bohemia - The Life of Louise Bryant by Mary V. Dearborn
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Keir Hardie - Radical and Socialist by K. O. Morgan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Hardie is one of the legends of modern British politics, but how much do we really know about the man who was the maker of the modern Labour Party? Morgan reveals Hardie as a far more complex figure than has been suggested by class-based stereotypes.
Mary Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Future by John Guy
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
Letters from the Suitcase: A Wartime Love Story by Rosheen and Cal Finnigan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
THE LETTERS FROM THE SUITCASE reveals the vivid, poignant and hugely detailed wartime correspondence between David and Mary Francis from 1938 to 1943, and a unique love story, sure to appeal to readers of Roald Dahl's LOVE FROM BOY, Sheila Hancock's MISS CARTER's WAR or Helen Simonson's MAJOR PETTIGREW' ...Show more
A View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Alan Clarke meets 'Yes Minister' in this wry and self-deprecating diary about life in the New Labour government from 1999 to May 2005.
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know.Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Afri ...Show more
Napoleon's Master by Lawday David
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
He took on Napoleon with a set of weapons that seemed unsuited to the task- flattery, courtesy and an alarmingly straight face. And he won. Quite as much as the Duke of Wellington it was the club-footed genius of French diplomacy who defeated the greatest conqueror since Julius Caesar. This is the story ...Show more
John Cleese So, Anyway... by John Cleese
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
John Cleese's huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy's DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway..., Cleese takes readers on a Gra ...Show more