Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman
$40.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir 'Masterful, captivating, page-turning, this is solid gold history at its best.' - Nicola Tallis '(A) thought-provoking, impeccably researched, and moving account uncovering how Anne's family, intel ...Show more
Around the Corners, Out to the Edges - A Memoir by composer Jonathan Besser by Jonathon Besser; Nicola McCloy
$50.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Acclaimed classical music composer and director Jonathan Besser's career has been colourful and experimental, immersed in the burgeoning New Zealand art scene of the '70s and '80s. Born into a Jewish household in New York in 1949, Jonathan struggled in school as a neuro-atypical child, before delving in ...Show more
Artists Who Changed History by DK; Andrew Graham-Dixon
$65.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated artists tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works. Lavishly illustrated with portraits of each artist, alongside photographs of their homes and studios, and personal artefacts, Artists Who Changed History offers a unique window ...Show more
Backing Into the Limelight: A Biography of T.E. Lawrence by Michael Yardley
$20.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. T. E. Lawrence was hailed as a sensitive genius and denounced as neurotic fraud. The fiction and the facts of his extraordinary life have been fused into one of the most intriguing and widely publicized stories of the 20th century. For Michael Yardley, after three years of extensive resear ...Show more
Beatrix Potter's Lakeland by Hunter Davies; Cressida Pemberton-Pigott (Photographer)
$23.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Reissued with Beatrix Potter illustrations and previously unpublished materials, this book combines authoritative text with colour photographs taken during the course of a complete year to show the Lake District in all its seasons and moods.
Bishops: My Turbulent Colonial Youth by Mona Williams
$15.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture.
Black in Selma - The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr. by J. L. Chestnut Jr.; Julia Cass
$27.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
On March 7,1965, George Wallace lined a bridge in Selma with statetroopers to prevent a civil rights march to Montgomery. Among those present was 34-year-old lawyer, J. L. Chestnut, a brilliant, passionate and unflinchingly tenacious champion of a people and a cause. Black in Selma is his story. Candid ...Show more
Blessington-d'Orsay: A Masquerade by Michael Sadleir
$47.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. Biography of an Irish woman born Margaret Power who was very poorly treated by the men in her life even though she was the most famous Lady Blessington.
Bosie: The Tragic Life of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray
$27.99 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Lord Alfred Douglas, known as 'Bosie', son of the Marquess of Queensberry, was known as one of the most beautiful young men of his generation. Aged twenty-one he met and became the lover and subsequent obsession of Oscar Wilde.Their relationship caused a scandal in 1895 when Wilde took Queensberry, Doug ...Show more
Boycs - The True Story by Leo McKinstry
$22.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Few modern British sportsmen have fascinated the public more than Geoff Boycott. In this first comprehensive and balanced account of Boycott's life -- fully updated to include his battle against cancer -- award-winning author Leo McKinstry lifts the lid on one of cricket's great enigmatic characters. ne ...Show more
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters by Gordon, Robert, Richards, Keith
$18.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. 'Can't Be Satisfied is that rare thing in musical biographies: a book that maps out not just a single, extraordinary life but the cultural forces that shaped it' Sean O'Hagan, Observer Muddy Waters was the greatest blues musician ever, and the most influential. He invented electric blues, i ...Show more