The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh - A Woman in World History by Linda Colley
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This is a book about a world in a life. Conceived in Jamaica and possibly mixed-race, Elizabeth Marsh (1735-1785) traveled farther and was more intimately affected by developments across the globe than the vast majority of men. She was the first woman to publish in English on Morocco, and the first to c ...Show more
O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling's Letters to His Children by Rudyard Kipling; Elliot L. Gilbert (Selected by, Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Displaying the same verve and wit as the Just So Stories, this charming collection brings together the series of letters Rudyard Kipling wrote to his children--his "dear people" as he called them--from 1906 to 1915. The correspondence with each child is eloquently presented--for Josephine, his dau ...Show more
To The Bitter End - The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-1945 by Victor Klemperer
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
The second volume of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war and whose diaries between 1933 and 1945 have been hailed as one of the most important chronicles of Nazi Germany ever published. A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies at £45 ...Show more
Anita Loos: A Biography by Gary Carey
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Despite her image as a flapper, Anita Loos was a hardworking, rather shy woman who sought recognition as a writer. This is the view presented by this biography which recounts her life at the film studios, hired by D.W.Griffith, writing scripts for Fairbanks and Pickford, Harlow and William Randolph Hear ...Show more
My Darling Heriott: Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile by Jane Brown
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile This work talks about the the life and times of Henrietta Luxborough, eighteenth-century aristocrat, gardener and society exile. Henrietta St John was born on St Swithun's Day in 1699 into a world of wealth, privilege and seeming security. Be ...Show more
After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present by J. Randy Taraborrelli
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
For more than half a century, Americans have been captivated by the Kennedys - their joy and heartbreak, tragedy and triumph, the dark side and the remarkable achievements. In this ambitious and sweeping account, Taraborelli continues the family chronicle begun with his bestselling Jackie, Ethel, Joan a ...Show more
The Devil's Doctor - Felix Kersten and the Secret Plot to Turn Himmler Against Hitler by A. R. Waller; John H. Waller
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The Devil′s Doctor The true story of one man s courageous fight against unspeakable evil In May 1940, as Nazi panzers overran the Netherlands, Felix Kersten received a summons he dared not refuse. A successful and prosperous physical therapist who had ministered to the Dutch royal family, Kersten was ...Show more
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves by Henry Wiencek
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book--based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers--opens up a huge, po ...Show more
The Hitler of History by John Lukacs
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
"A valuable service . . . serious, entertaining, provocative and distinctive." --Cleveland Plain Dealer In the fifty years since his suicide amid the ruins of Berlin, Adolf Hitler has been the subject of more biographies than any comparable figure of our time--and at the center of a crucial historic ...Show more
Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
For most of his long reign (1953-1999) Hussein of Jordan was one of the dominant figures in Middle Eastern politics, its most continuous presence, and one of the most consistent proponents of peace with Israel. This is the first major account of his life and reign, written with access to many of his sur ...Show more
Peninsula of Lies A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love by Edward Ball
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil style tale of sexual duplicity and scandal that sweeps from Sissinghurst Castle in Kent to Charleston, South Carolina. The life of Gordon Langley Hall was full of mystery and riddled with rumour and scandal. The illegitimate son of two servants at Sissingh ...Show more
To Father: The Letters of Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 by Dava Sobel
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Translated and annotataed by Dava Sobel,author of Longitude & Galileo's Daughter.Galileo's daughter was her father's greatest source of strength during his most difficult years.Now readers can follow their story in her own words.From a social perspective,here is a haunting glimpse into the mind of a ...Show more