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By The Sword: Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai Warriors, Swashbucklers and Olympians by Richard Cohen
27.95 NZD
32.95 (15% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
The secret history of the fiercely beautiful art of fencing.Though fencing is seen as a graceful and noble sport, it is not without its seamy side. By The Sword traces the darkness behind the mask, from the sport's early brutal days to the more civilised, yet no less dangerous, days of duelling and then ...Show more
Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life - SIGNED by Richard Cohen
55.00 NZD
Category: Science
The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Amazingly the first book of its kind, CHASING THE SUN is a cultural and scientific history of our relationship with the star that gives us life. Richard Cohen, applying th ...Show more
How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers by Richard Cohen
21.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A Spectator Best Book of the Year `There are three rules for writing a novel,' Somerset Maugham once said. `Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.' So how to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to), or run that most challenging of literary gaun ...Show more
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past by Richard Cohen
37.99 NZD
Category: History
THE HISTORY MAKERS is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama -continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today. There are many stories we can spin about years gone ...Show more
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