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Electricity by Victoria Glendinning
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Charlotte Mortimer, brought up in the narrow confines and high tensions of a London suburb, escapes from a world bound by strict conventions into one on the brink of change. She marries Peter Fisher, a fiery young prophet of the new science of electricity. But, in the country mansion which her new husba ...Show more
Leonard Woolf - A Life by Victoria Glendinning
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Many people today know Leonard Woolf mainly through the surname of his wife, Virginia, or his role in supporting her through her mental illness, depicted in films like "The Hours". Some critics see him as his wife's oppressor. In Victoria Glendinning's biography, for the first time we see the whole man. ...Show more
Leonard Woolf - A life by Victoria Glendinning
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Many people today know Leonard Woolf mainly through the surname of his wife, Virginia, or his role in supporting her through her mental illness. Some critics see him as his wife's oppressor. In Victoria Glendinning's biography, we see the whole man for the whole time. As well as being a prominent member ...Show more
Raffles and the Golden Opportunity 1781-1826 by Victoria Glendinning
55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil ...Show more
Vita : The life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
The life of Vita Sackville-West, a key member of the Bloomsbury set and lover of Virginia Woolf 'What each of us would look for in an ideal future biographer is what each of us looks for in an ideal doctor: sympathy, trustfulness and acute powers of diagnosis. All these three qualities are here present. ...Show more
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