The Pankhursts by Martin Pugh
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
We never went to prison in order to be martyrs. We went there in order that we might obtain the right of citizenship. We were willing to break laws that we might force men to give us the right to make laws - Emmeline Pankhurst.
Tom Paine: The Greatest Exile by David Powell
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Radius Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Hitler's Pope - The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This biography discusses Pope Pius XIII's wartime silence over the Holocaust and exposes the patent anti-Semitism that led to his fateful concordance with Hitler - a partnership that smoothed the Nazis' path to power and saw the Vatican immensely enriched - financially and politically. In examining Euge ...Show more
Napoleon III - A Life by Fenton Bresler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
While Napoleon remains a pivotal figure in French and European history, Fenton Bresler argues in this new biography, his nephew's success with the Second Empire and his fall with the Franco-Prussian War warrants him a place among the great men of his time. Louis-Napoleon, president of the Second Republi ...Show more
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
$18.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This book, as much a work of history as a biography, is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures in history. Thomas More (1478-1535) was a renowned statesman; the author of a political treatise, Utopia, that gave a political worldview; and, most famous ...Show more
Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore by Ronan Kelly
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Colm Tóibín has called Thomas Moore ‘the most influential figure in shaping the Irish political psyche'. In Bard of Erin, Ronan Kelly tells the story of Moore's extraordinary life – from humble beginnings in Dublin to glittering social and literary success in London (at one point his popularity was ecli ...Show more
In the Line of Fire: A Memoir by Pervez Musharraf
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In this unprecedented book, the president of one of the worlds most crucial nations offers his candid thoughts on Pakistans confrontations with India, 9/11 and its aftermath, on Israel, on bin Laden and al Queda, and on the status of women in Pakistan. of photos.
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh - A Woman in World History by Linda Colley
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This is a book about a world in a life. Conceived in Jamaica and possibly mixed-race, Elizabeth Marsh (1735-1785) traveled farther and was more intimately affected by developments across the globe than the vast majority of men. She was the first woman to publish in English on Morocco, and the first to c ...Show more
O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling's Letters to His Children by Rudyard Kipling; Elliot L. Gilbert (Selected by, Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Displaying the same verve and wit as the Just So Stories, this charming collection brings together the series of letters Rudyard Kipling wrote to his children--his "dear people" as he called them--from 1906 to 1915. The correspondence with each child is eloquently presented--for Josephine, his dau ...Show more
To The Bitter End - The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-1945 by Victor Klemperer
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
The second volume of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war and whose diaries between 1933 and 1945 have been hailed as one of the most important chronicles of Nazi Germany ever published. A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45 ...Show more
Anita Loos: A Biography by Gary Carey
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Despite her image as a flapper, Anita Loos was a hardworking, rather shy woman who sought recognition as a writer. This is the view presented by this biography which recounts her life at the film studios, hired by D.W.Griffith, writing scripts for Fairbanks and Pickford, Harlow and William Randolph Hear ...Show more
My Darling Heriott: Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile by Jane Brown
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile This work talks about the the life and times of Henrietta Luxborough, eighteenth-century aristocrat, gardener and society exile. Henrietta St John was born on St Swithun's Day in 1699 into a world of wealth, privilege and seeming security. Be ...Show more