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
Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day, 'the father of modern physics - indeed of mo ...Show more
Lloyd George - The Young Lloyd George by John Grigg
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
John Grigg's four volume life of Lloyd George is one of the great political biographies. Volume 1, The Young Lloyd George, covers the years from his birth in 1863 to the end of the Boer War in 1902. John Grigg describes the future Prime Minister's emergence as a local solicitor and politician and his fi ...Show more
Shadow Life: A Portrait of Anne Frank and her Family by Barry Denenberg
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Shadow Life Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Illuminates the story of Anne Frank and the world in which she and her family lived. After outlining the facts surrounding WWII and the Holocaust, the author follows the Franks from Frankfurt to Amsterdam where they hoped to resume a normal life, but instead were forced into hiding.
An Obsession with Anne Frank - Meyer Levin and the "Diary" by Lawrence Graver
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Centennial Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Anne Frank's Diary has been acclaimed throughout the world as an indelible portrait of a gifted girl and as a remarkable document of the Holocaust. For Meyer Levin, the respected writer who helped bring the Diary to an American audience, the Jewish girl's moving story became a thirty-year obsession that ...Show more
D. N. Dunlop - A Man of Our Time by T. H. Meyer;
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
D. N. Dunlop (1868-1935) combined remarkable practical and organizational abilities in industry and commerce along with the gifts of spiritual and esoteric capacities. A personal friend of W. B. Yeats and Rudolf Steiner, Dunlop was responsible for establishing the World Power Conference (today the World ...Show more
The Astonished Traveller: William Darby, Frontier Geographer and Man of Letters by J. Gerald Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Churchill by Roy Jenkins
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Roy Jenkins presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character. Pape ...Show more
The Queen's Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr Dee by Benjamin Woolley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Based on Dee\\\'s secret diaries which record his experiments with the occult, Woolley\\\'s book tells the story of one man\\\'s struggle to come to terms with the fundamental dichotomy of the scientific age at the point it arose: the choice between ancient wisdom and modern science as the path to truth ...Show more
Wait For Me - Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother and sisters, and thei ...Show more
Dearie - The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
It's rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs and our very culture. It's even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. And yet, that ...Show more