The Pope's Daughter by Caroline P. Murphy
32.99 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The untold story of how Felice della Rovere, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, became the most powerful woman in Rome. Caroline P. Murphy evokes not only the great turbulence and creativity of Renaissance Italy, but also Felice's daily life, from dealing with squabbles among servants to her a ...Show more
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
49.99 NZD
55.00 (9% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This selection includes correspondence from Hughes's marriage to Sylvia Plath, and his letters to those he trusted reveal much about his feelings for her. At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a proli ...Show more
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes (selected & ed Christopher Reid)
89.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once reso ...Show more
My Life as Emperor by Su Tong (tr from Chinese Howard Goldblatt)
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From the celebrated author of "Raise the Red Lantern" comes his first novel in almost ten years--a chilling yet enormously entertaining tale about a pampered and nave 14-year-old prince, who finds himself, suddenly and unexpectedly, named Emperor of China. First published in Chinese 1992; this transl ...Show more
A Night at the Majestic by Richard Davenport-Hines
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Lady Hester, Queen of the East by Lorna Gibb
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Features the biography of a great British traveller - the tall, headstrong, and charismatic Lady Hester Stanhope, who defied social convention to become a powerful figure in the Middle East
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? Here at last is an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. First published 2005.
Writing Home (Revised edition) by Alan Bennett
22.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Autobiographical and idiosyncratic, this is a collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings, assembled by Bennett himself from over a quarter of a century of diaries, reminiscences, broadcasting and reviews. This edition includes additional material, including a tribute to the late Peter Cook. First publ ...Show more
Life on Air by David Attenborough
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly five decades and there are very few places on the globe that he has not visited. In this volume of memoirs David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and ...Show more
A Lion Called Christian by Anthony Bourke
27.99 NZD
39.99 (30% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 2008, a YouTube clip became an internet phenomenon. It showed the emotional reunion of two young men and their pet lion, Christian, after they had left him in Africa to be introduced into his rightful home in the wild. Anthony 'Ace' Bourke and John Rendall visited London from Australia in 1969 and bo ...Show more
Capello: Portrait of a Winner by Gabriele Marcotti
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Fabio Capello is a born winner. As a midfielder with Roma, Juventus and Milan, he won four Italian league championships and two cups, and played for his country 32 times, scoring a goal at Wembley in 1973 in Italy's first ever win in England. As a manager, Capello's fierce determination has seen him win ...Show more
A Piece Of Cake by Cupcake Brown
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake and it begins when, aged eleven, she is orphaned and placed in the 'care' of sadistic foster parents. But there comes a point in her preteen years maybe it's the night she first tries to run away and is exposed to drugs, alcohol, and sex al ...Show more