Praeterita - The Autobiography of John Ruskin by John Ruskin; Kenneth Clark (Introduction by)
$17.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Series: Oxford Paperbacks Ser.
Praeterita is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of the 19th century. Written by Ruskin in the 1880s between attacks of brain fever, it gives a fascinating account of his upbringing in a severely respectable Victorian household, his Continental travels, his friends and relations, andthe developm ...Show more
Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Glitteringly detailed and engagingly written, the magisterial Elizabeth I brings to vivid life the golden age of sixteenth-century England and the uniquely fascinating monarch who presided over it. A woman of intellect and presence, Elizabeth was the object of extravagant adoration by her contemporaries ...Show more
Coleridge - Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Mo ...Show more
What is History?: Popular Penguins by E. H. Carr
$15.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Since its first publication in 1961 E.H. Carr's What is History? has established itself as the classic introduction to the subject. Ranging across topics such as historical objectivity, society and the individual, the nature of causation, and the possibility of progress, Carr delivered an incisive text ...Show more
Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biogra ...Show more
God's Funeral by A.N. Wilson
$17.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
In this work, A.N. Wilson's account shows how the decline of religious certainty in Victorian times had its origin with the 18th-century sceptics, and brought a devastating sense of emotional loss which extends to our own times.
Hudson & Halls - The food of love by Drayton Joanne
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story, though a love story it certainly is. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock bad attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s to that unspoken thing - homosexuality. Peter Hudson and David Halls became reluctan ...Show more
After Agatha: Women Write Crime by Sally Cline
$44.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
From Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide to women's crime writing over the last century and an exploration of why women read crime Spanning the 1930s to present day, After Agatha charts the explosion in women's crime writing and ...Show more
The Violinist of Auschwitz by Jean-Jacques Felstein
$70.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Arrested in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz, Elsa survived because she had the 'opportunity' to join the women's orchestra. But Elsa kept her story a secret, even from her own family. Indeed, her son would only discover what had happened to his mother many years later, after gradually unearthing her unbe ...Show more
The Big Kahuna: Tax and Welfare : Turning Tax and Welfare in New Zealand on Its Head by Gareth Morgan and Susan Guthrie
$19.50 NZD
Category: Politics and Economics | Reading Level: very good
One day, when he was contributing to the Tax and Welfare Working Group, economist Gareth Morgan made an off-the-cuff remark that the solution to all of New Zealand's tax and welfare woes lay in abolishing the present welfare system and radically overhauling the tax system. He called this idea 'the big k ...Show more