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
Mary : Princess of Style by Jim Korner & Jim Lyngvild
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a beautifully illustrative record of Mary's journey from Tasmanian girl to the future queen of Denmark and international style icon, with special focus on her approach to fashion.
The Lucy Family Alphabet by Judith Lucy
29.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Lucy has always used stories about her extraordinary family as material for her one woman shows. Her mother was afraid of water and shampoo, ate only cream-cheese and raspberry cordial and refused to let Judith go swimming or turn off any appliances. Her father wore makeup, loved car crashes and pretend ...Show more
An Exacting Heart : The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin by Jacqueline Kent
55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Like her famous brother Yehudi, Hephzibah Menuhin (1920-1981) was a child prodigy. But Hephzibah was the younger, and expected to be wife and mother. She escapes the controlling family, abandons her music, then also her new family in Melbourne, to eventually live in London. This is the story of an intel ...Show more