Bruce Chatwin: A Biography by Nicholas Shakespeare
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Award-winning novelist Nicholas Shakespeare has written the definitive biography of one of the most influential literary figures of our time: Bruce Chatwin, whose works’ strangely compelling combination of research, first-hand experience, myth, and mystification may have been the real substance of his s ...Show more
Hugo! The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution by Bart Jones
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
1) The ruling elites in Venezuela and the United States are keen to paint Chavez as the heir to Castro, but the truth is more complex and more interesting. 2) The Ch
The Mystery of Olga Chekhova - Was Hitler's Favourite Actress a Russian Spy? by Antony Beevor
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This is the extraordinary tale of how one family survived the Russian Revolution, the civil war, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist Terror and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. There have been many tantalizing rumours about Olga Chekhova, the niece of Anton Chekhov. She left Russia for Germany and b ...Show more
Catherine the Great - Life and Legend by John T. Alexander
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her hus ...Show more
Vera Brittain: A Life by Paul Berry
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Vera Brittain is most widely known as the woman who immortalized a lost generation in her haunting autobiography of the Great War, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. Writer, pacifist and feminist, she condemned her provincial background but remained acutely conscious of the conventional elements in her own character; ...Show more
The Girl from Botany Bay by Carolly Erickson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The story of Botany Bay prisoner Mary Bryant who in the early 1790s, with her husband William, two small children, and seven other convicts, stole a boat and escaped Sydney by sailing all the way north to Timor, some 3250 treacherous miles in under ten weeks, an incredible nautical achievement. Includes ...Show more
Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton by Cecil Beaton
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Cesare Borgia - A Biography by William H. Woodward
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1913, London
Lucrezia Borgia by Maria Bellonci
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Women in History | Reading Level: very good
Among the violent personalities of the High Renaissance, Lucrezia Borgia is chiefly remembered as a raven-haired poisoner, but the Lucrezia depicted here is a passionate, womanly figure moving uncertainly through the Papal court and through the intrigues, ambitions and chicanery around her. Paperback (B ...Show more
Pete Townsend - Who I am by Pete Townshend
$18.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
He is one of the greatest musical talents Britain has ever produced. But even as the principle songwriter and lead guitarist for The Who, it would be unjust to define Pete Townshend's life simply through his achievements with bandmates Daltrey, Moon and Entwistle. Noting that he has sold over 100 millio ...Show more
Bert & Ned - The Correspondence of Albert Tucker and Sydney Nolan by Patrick McCaughey (ed)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan were friends and rivals but never antagonists for the whole of their working lives as artists. Covering a period of more than thirty years, these letters throw light on their expatriate years in the 1950s and mark their changing and changeable attitude to Australia, both a ...Show more