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
When Horse Became Saw: A Family's Journey Through Autism by Anthony Macris
42.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Anthony Macris and his wife were, for an all-too-brief period, the happiest of parents when their son Alex was born. Until autism descended, in a swift and brutal wave, sweeping away the child they knew and leaving them to watch helplessly as his mind disintegrated. Their vibrant, healthy boy, who up to ...Show more
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
41.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, interested more in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his school - Madame Mao's cultural delegates. Th ...Show more
The Lot: In Words by Michael Leunig
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Musings from a truly original thinker on eveything under the sun and many things over the moon.There are few aspects of existence to which Michael Leunig has not turned his renaissance mind, as a bemused and committed member of the human plight. From his cartoonist's sensibilities comes a peculiar journ ...Show more
Gone by Margaret Wilcox
37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Margaret Wilcox, a young Australian woman enjoying a long working sojourn in Libya in the 1970s, meets and marries a Libyan businessman happy, but then their daughter is born and things change.
A House in Fez by Clarke, Suzanna
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Suzanna Clarke and her husband bought a dilapidated riad, or traditional courtyard house, in the ancient Medina of Fez, their friends thought they were mad. Located in a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, the house was beautiful but in desperate need of repair. Walls were in danger of collapse, the plu ...Show more