Pushing Time Away : A Memoir by Peter Singer
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A personal history by the man described in The New Yorker as the most influential living philosopher. What binds us pushes time away.So wrote David Oppenheim, classical scholar, collaborator and then critic of Sigmund Freud, friend and supporter of Alfred Adler, participant in and observer of the intell ...Show more
Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil by Leo McKinstry
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The Fifth Earl of Rosebery was the most glamorous Liberal politician of the late Victorian age. As a young man, he said that he had three ambitions: to marry an heiress, win the Derby, and become Prime Minister. By his mid-forties, he had achieved all three. But his political career was clouded by his s ...Show more
Anastasia: The Lost Princess by James B. Lovell
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Anastasia--the name has become synonymous with enigma. the story of the youngest daughter of the last Russian czar has become one of the world's most favorite romantic fascinations, and is one of the strangest, saddest, most haunting riddle of the twentieth century: Did she escape the massacre of the Ru ...Show more
Henry Plantagenet by Richard Barber
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Henry II is the most imposing figure among the medieval kings of England. His fiefs and domains extended from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, and his court was frequented by the greatest thinkers and men of letters of his time, besides ambassadors from all over Europe. This readable and accessible bi ...Show more
Samuel Pepys - The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to ...Show more
The Pankhursts by Martin Pugh
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
We never went to prison in order to be martyrs. We went there in order that we might obtain the right of citizenship. We were willing to break laws that we might force men to give us the right to make laws - Emmeline Pankhurst.
Tom Paine: The Greatest Exile by David Powell
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Radius Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Hitler's Pope - The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This biography discusses Pope Pius XIII's wartime silence over the Holocaust and exposes the patent anti-Semitism that led to his fateful concordance with Hitler - a partnership that smoothed the Nazis' path to power and saw the Vatican immensely enriched - financially and politically. In examining Euge ...Show more
Napoleon III - A Life by Fenton Bresler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
While Napoleon remains a pivotal figure in French and European history, Fenton Bresler argues in this new biography, his nephew's success with the Second Empire and his fall with the Franco-Prussian War warrants him a place among the great men of his time. Louis-Napoleon, president of the Second Republi ...Show more
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
$18.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This book, as much a work of history as a biography, is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures in history. Thomas More (1478-1535) was a renowned statesman; the author of a political treatise, Utopia, that gave a political worldview; and, most famous ...Show more
Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore by Ronan Kelly
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Colm Tóibín has called Thomas Moore ‘the most influential figure in shaping the Irish political psyche'. In Bard of Erin, Ronan Kelly tells the story of Moore's extraordinary life – from humble beginnings in Dublin to glittering social and literary success in London (at one point his popularity was ecli ...Show more