Keir Hardie - Radical and Socialist by K. O. Morgan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Hardie is one of the legends of modern British politics, but how much do we really know about the man who was the maker of the modern Labour Party? Morgan reveals Hardie as a far more complex figure than has been suggested by class-based stereotypes.
Mary Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Future by John Guy
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
Letters from the Suitcase: A Wartime Love Story by Rosheen and Cal Finnigan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
THE LETTERS FROM THE SUITCASE reveals the vivid, poignant and hugely detailed wartime correspondence between David and Mary Francis from 1938 to 1943, and a unique love story, sure to appeal to readers of Roald Dahl's LOVE FROM BOY, Sheila Hancock's MISS CARTER's WAR or Helen Simonson's MAJOR PETTIGREW' ...Show more
A View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Alan Clarke meets 'Yes Minister' in this wry and self-deprecating diary about life in the New Labour government from 1999 to May 2005.
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know.Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Afri ...Show more
Neil Young - The Rolling Stone Files
$16.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Rolling Stone Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Napoleon's Master by Lawday David
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
He took on Napoleon with a set of weapons that seemed unsuited to the task- flattery, courtesy and an alarmingly straight face. And he won. Quite as much as the Duke of Wellington it was the club-footed genius of French diplomacy who defeated the greatest conqueror since Julius Caesar. This is the story ...Show more
John Cleese So, Anyway... by John Cleese
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
John Cleese's huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy's DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway..., Cleese takes readers on a Gra ...Show more
Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy by Nina Sutton; David Sharp (Translator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good
Who was Bruno Bettelheim? The brilliant discoverer of a unique method of treating psychotic children, justly acclaimed the world over? Or the brutal and despotic bully who was denounced after his death by former students and patients? In her quest to understand this puzzling and powerful man, Nina Sutto ...Show more
Samurai and Silk - A Japanese and American Heritage by Haru Matsukata Reischauer
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Samurai and Silk is a rare treasure: a book of penetrating insight into the Japanese character and the forging of modern Japan from the feudal Tokugawa shoguns to present day economic titans. Only Haru Reischauer could have written this extraordinary family account, beginning with her two illustrious gr ...Show more
Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty by Dennis McDougal
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Based on unprecedented access to the Chandler dynasty, the acclaimed story of a media mogul extraordinaire--"thoroughly reported and engrossing" (New York Times Book Review) The Boston Globe hailed Privileged Son as "a well-researched, tough-minded, superbly composed story" by an author "adept at mi ...Show more
The Prince of Darkness : 50 Years Reporting in Washington by Robert D. Novak
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
New York Times Bestseller A landmark achievement The Prince of Darkness is not simply the stunningly candid memoir of one of the country's most influential reporters but also a riveting history of the past half century in American politics.