Chopin's Funeral by Benita Eisler
29.99 NZD
32.95 (8% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Abacus Bks. | Reading Level: good
At twenty-one, Frederic Chopin fled Russian-occupied Poland for exile in France. He would never see his native country again. With only two public concerts in as many years, he became a star of Parisian society, revered by his great contemporaries Schumann, Liszt, and the painter Eugene Delacroix. Bless ...Show more
Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling by Charles Allen
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen's great-grandfather brought the sixteen-year-old Kipling out to Lahore to work on The Civil and Military Gazette with the words 'Kipling wi ...Show more
Her Husband : Hughes and Plath - A marriage by Diane Wood Middlebrook
37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers. Plath's suicide six and a half years later, for which many held Hughes accountable, changed his life, his closest relationships, his standing in the literary world and brought new significance to his poetry. In this stunn ...Show more
Bess of Hardwick: The First Lady of Chatsworth 1527-1608 by Mary S. Lovell
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of The Mitford Girls: A 'wonderfully researched' (Sunday Express) biography of Bess of Hartwick, the most powerful woman in England next to Queen Elizabeth Bringing 'the Tudor Age to exuberant life' (Hugh Massingberd, Mail on Sunday), Mary S. Lovell tells the story of Bess of ...Show more
Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl by Steven Bach
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Revealing biography of one of the twentieth century's most controversial figures; and the first significant biography to have been published since the subject's death
The Mitford Girls - The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There is Nancy, whose bright social existence masked a doomed obsessional love, which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman maried to one of the best brains i ...Show more
Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama by Nelson Mandela
9.99 NZD
37.99 (73% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
2018 is the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book . . . humane, dignified and magnificently unembittered' The Times The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the dra ...Show more
If This is a Man: The Truce by Primo Levi; Stuart Woolf (Translator)
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Abacus Bks. | Reading Level: very good
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly ...Show more
Take This Bread by Sara Miles
47.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
“ Mine is a personal story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert.” – Sara Miles Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and a writer. Then early one winter morning, for no earthly reason, sh ...Show more
The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion -- or something else entirely?In this profoundly thought-provoking and revealing book, Hustvedt takes the reader on her journey through psychia ...Show more