The Queen's Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr Dee by Benjamin Woolley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Based on Dee\\\'s secret diaries which record his experiments with the occult, Woolley\\\'s book tells the story of one man\\\'s struggle to come to terms with the fundamental dichotomy of the scientific age at the point it arose: the choice between ancient wisdom and modern science as the path to truth ...Show more
Wait For Me - Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother and sisters, and thei ...Show more
Dearie - The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
It's rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs and our very culture. It's even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. And yet, that ...Show more
Bruce Chatwin: A Biography by Nicholas Shakespeare
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Award-winning novelist Nicholas Shakespeare has written the definitive biography of one of the most influential literary figures of our time: Bruce Chatwin, whose works’ strangely compelling combination of research, first-hand experience, myth, and mystification may have been the real substance of his s ...Show more
Hugo! The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution by Bart Jones
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
1) The ruling elites in Venezuela and the United States are keen to paint Chavez as the heir to Castro, but the truth is more complex and more interesting. 2) The Ch
The Mystery of Olga Chekhova - Was Hitler's Favourite Actress a Russian Spy? by Antony Beevor
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This is the extraordinary tale of how one family survived the Russian Revolution, the civil war, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist Terror and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. There have been many tantalizing rumours about Olga Chekhova, the niece of Anton Chekhov. She left Russia for Germany and b ...Show more
Catherine the Great - Life and Legend by John T. Alexander
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her hus ...Show more
Vera Brittain: A Life by Paul Berry
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Vera Brittain is most widely known as the woman who immortalized a lost generation in her haunting autobiography of the Great War, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. Writer, pacifist and feminist, she condemned her provincial background but remained acutely conscious of the conventional elements in her own character; ...Show more
The Girl from Botany Bay by Carolly Erickson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The story of Botany Bay prisoner Mary Bryant who in the early 1790s, with her husband William, two small children, and seven other convicts, stole a boat and escaped Sydney by sailing all the way north to Timor, some 3250 treacherous miles in under ten weeks, an incredible nautical achievement. Includes ...Show more
Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton by Cecil Beaton
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Cesare Borgia - A Biography by William H. Woodward
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1913, London
Lucrezia Borgia by Maria Bellonci
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Women in History | Reading Level: very good
Among the violent personalities of the High Renaissance, Lucrezia Borgia is chiefly remembered as a raven-haired poisoner, but the Lucrezia depicted here is a passionate, womanly figure moving uncertainly through the Papal court and through the intrigues, ambitions and chicanery around her. Paperback (B ...Show more