Becoming Dickens : The Invention of a Novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
64.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England's greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens's early career, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the nov ...Show more
Stephen Lives! by Anne Puryear
44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The mother of a teenager who committed suicide chronicles her grief process and her communication with Stephen beyond the grave, offering comforting advice to families in crisis and people who have lost loved ones to suicide. Reprint.
3,096 Days by Natascha Kampusch
31.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"3,096 Days" is the remarkable and shocking true account of the kidnap of Natascha Kampusch in 1998, who relives her traumatic experiences in this amazing true story. On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white van. Hours later she wa ...Show more
Mohandas: A True Story of a Man by Rajmohan Gandhi
69.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A candid recreation of one of the most influential lives of recent times, "Mohandas" finally answers questions long asked about the timid youth from India's west coast who became a century's conscience and led his nation to liberty. What was Gandhi like in his daily life and in his closest relationships ...Show more
Triumph: Life After the Cult - a Survivor's Lessons by Carolyn Jessop
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The author of "The New York Times" bestseller "Escape" returns with a moving and inspirational tale of her life after she heroically fled the cult she'd been raised in, her hard-won new identity and happiness, and her determination to w ...Show more
Charles Dickens : A Life by Claire Tomalin
50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pick ...Show more
The Translator: A Tribeman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
37.00 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A deeply moving memoir by a young Darfur man who, through his work as a translator for foreign reporters, risked his own life in the face of genocide.
Diana by Sarah Bradford
39.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
With the authority missing from all previous accounts, acclaimed royal biographer Sarah Bradford delivers a complex and explosive study of the greatest icon of the twentieth century: Diana, Princess of Wales. With access to those closest to Diana and her select circle, Sarah Bradford casts aside the ...Show more
John Donne - The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs
55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin
69.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of rural Dorset he went on to become the Grand Old Man of English life and letters, his last resting place in Westminster Abbey. This semin ...Show more
Diana by Sarah Bradford
59.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Delivers a study of Diana, Princess of Wales. This work examines Diana's relationships with her lovers, staff, friends, as well as her children, husband and in-laws. It also charts Diana's commitment to her charities and her connection and empathy with all those she met; the struggle to find an identity ...Show more