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Africa House, The by Christina Lamb
0.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
In the last decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Browne built himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a sprawling country estate modelled on the finest homes of England, complete with uniformed servants, daily muster parades, rose gardens and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port ...Show more
Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
36.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
House of Stone by Christina Lamb
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. In 2000, after Robert Mugabe had launched his controversial land reform programme, Nigel Hough held on to a fervent hope that he might keep hold of his ...Show more
House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe by Christina Lamb
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides.
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb
39.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
‘A wake-up call … These women’s stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.’ Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict. Christina Lamb has worke ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields - War Through the Lives of Women by Christina Lamb
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 'A wake-up call ... These women's stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.' Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the fi ...Show more
Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands by Christina Lamb
25.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
An extraordinary collection of reportage that tells the story of some of the most important world events of the past 16 years, from one of the most talented and intrepid female journalists at work today.Since leaving England aged 21 with an invitation to a Karachi wedding and a yearning for adventure, C ...Show more
The Africa House : the true story of an Englishman and his African dream (revised edition 2004) by Christina Lamb
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Christina Lamb's best selling account of this fascinating and complicated man - a colonialist who beat his servants yet supported independence, a stiff Englishman with deep passions - is a master piece of biographical storytelling. It is a tale of fantasies made real, tragedy endured and life long love. ...Show more
The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb
34.99 NZD
36.95 (5% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Ten years ago, Christina Lamb reported on the war the Afghan people fought against the Soviet Union. Now, back in Afghanistan, she has written an extraordinary memoir of her love affair with the country and its people. A gold-inscribed invitation to a wedding in Pakistan led Christina Lamb to leave subu ...Show more
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