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Dancing By The Light of The Moon: Over 250 Poems to Read, Relish and Recite by Gyles Brandreth
26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Pre-order Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion Includes an updated chapter of poems to bring you hope and happiness this year 'Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness' ...Show more
Elizabeth: An intimate portrait from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years by Gyles Brandreth
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarchThis intimate, personal biography of Queen Elizabeth II tells the story of her remarkable life, reign and times, from a perspective unlike any other. Gyles Brandreth writes the Queen's tale candidly with grace and sensitiv ...Show more
Have You Eaten Grandma? by Gyles Brandreth
32.99 NZD
Category: Humour
Pre order the go-to good English guide from the grammar guru himself, Gyles Brandreth . . . Don't know if it's, like, okay to say 'like'?Are your apostrophe's in the wrong place?Should it be 'past' or 'passed'?Want to make fewer not less grammatical mistakes? Then do not despair, Gyles Brandreth's Hav ...Show more
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile by Gyles Brandreth
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The latest in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle. Paris, 1883. Oscar Wilde, aged twenty-seven, has come to the city of decadence to discover its charms, to rekindle his friendship with the divine Sarah Bernhardt and to collaborat ...Show more
Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death by Gyles Brandreth
38.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
'I see murder in this unhappy hand!' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of 'Murder' in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests mus ...Show more
Philip and Elizabeth by Gyles Brandreth
59.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
This is the story of two unusual people, both intelligent, both determined, but otherwise with very different natures - both royal from birth, but with wildly different upbringings - who have led quite extraordinary lives. It will be the story of those lives, of their relationship, of their attitude to ...Show more
Something Sensational to Read in the Train: The Diary of a Lifetime by Gyles Brandreth
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This is a diary packed with famous names and extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail and wonderful observation, providing both a compelling record of five remarkable decades and a revealing, often hilarious and sometimes moving account of Gyles Brandreth's unusual life -- as a child ...Show more
Something Sensational to Read on the Train by Brandreth Gyles
39.99 NZD
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The 7 Secrets of Happiness: An Optimist's Journey by Gyles Brandreth
28.99 NZD
Category: Mind/Body/Spirit
Marvellous, brilliant, wonderful, best thing I've ever heard, transformational...' Grace Surman. That was the response from a total stranger when Gyles Brandreth delivered the Happiness Lecture at Birmingham University in June 2013. Someone else in the thousand-strong audience tweeted: 'The 7 Secrets of ...Show more
What's Black and White and Red All Over? (PB) by Gyles Brandreth
17.99 NZD
Category: Humour
An hilarious joke book from an hilarious writer! Will make kids and adults alike laugh out loud. WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER? An embarrassed Penguin A sunburnt elephant A newspaper! Did those jokes make you laugh? Make you groan? Maybe a bit of both? There's a lot more where they came from ...Show more
Word Play: A Cornucopia of Puns, Anagrams and Other Contortions and Curiosities of the English Language by Gyles Brandreth
27.99 NZD
Category: Language
'No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.' Only words can do that. Words are magic. Words are fun. Join Gyles Brandreth - wit and word-meister, Just A Minute regular, One Show reporter, denizen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, founder of the N ...Show more
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