Poe : A LIfe Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor of the "Literary Messenger" he was influential among critics and writers of the Ameri ...Show more
Newton by Peter Ackroyd
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is said to have made his greatest contributions to original thought in science in 1665-6 while at his parents' home in Lincolnshire escaping the Great Plague (which had closed the universities), a period of which he wrote: 'I was in the prime of my age for invention'. It was ...Show more
The Letters of Martha Gellhorn by Martha Gellhorn; Caroline Moorehead (editor)
100.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Martha Gellhorn was one of the most extraordinary of all female war correspondents. Her letters have been selected and edited for publication by her biographer, Caroline Moorehead. Martha Gellhorn's career tracked many of the flashpoints of the 20th century: she witnessed at first hand the Depression in ...Show more
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time by Joseph Frank
92.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume "Dostoevsky" is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language - and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highl ...Show more
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