Castlereagh: The Biography of a Statesman by John Bew
$18.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Damned in corruscating verse by Shelley and Byron, his coffin hissed at during his funeral, Lord Castlereagh has one of the blackest reputations in British history. But as John Bew shows, this is but a half-drawn portrait. His gripping biography reveals a shy, inarticulate but passionate ma ...Show more
Childhood, Youth & Exile - Being Parts I & II of My Past and Thoughts by Alexander Herzen
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
This book comprises the first two parts of Herzen's autobiography, My Past and Thoughts, one of the greatest monuments of Russian literature, comparable to the major works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev. Herzen begins with his nurse's account of Napoleon's occupation of Moscow in 1812, and continu ...Show more
Churchill by Roy Jenkins
$18.75 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | 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
Cloud Cover: Recollections of an Intelligence Officer by Derek Gilpin Barnes
$20.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
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
Compendium of Contrarians - Those Who Stand Out by Not Fitting In by Robert Orr-Ewing
$75.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
What do Winston Churchill, Rosa Parks, Emile Zola, Billy Beane and Christopher Hitchens have in common? They are all Contrarians. This book is about the people who do not quietly slip into the shadows, who revel in playing devil's advocate, who zig when everyone else zags and who dare ask the question: ...Show more
Cromwell: Our Chief of Men by Antonia Fraser
$13.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England's most celebrated and controversial figures, often misunderstood and demonized as a puritanical zealot. Oliver Cromwell rose from humble beginnings to spearhead the rebellion against King Charles I, who was beheade ...Show more
Danton: The Gentle Giant of Terror by David Lawday
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. In this new biography, David Lawday, author of the acclaimed "Napoleon's Master, a life of Talleyrand", turns his focus to the life of Georges-Jacques Danton, tragic hero incarnate. A beefy six-foot bull of a man, with a rude farmyard face to match, Danton was destined to bring a violent en ...Show more
David Bowie Rainbowman: 1967-1980 by Jerome Soligny
$34.99 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
"This is a book unlike any other, the definitive analysis of David's music, told in a quiet natural way, but with absolute authenticity, by the people's around him" - Hermione Farthingale "Jérôme Soligny is one of the best authorities in the world of David Bowie's career and life in general... His ne ...Show more
David Bowie: Rock 'n' Roll with Me by GEOFF MACCORMACK
$90.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
David Bowie: Rock 'n' Roll with Me is Geoff MacCormack's remarkable photographic memoir, charting his lifelong friendship with David Bowie. Images bring MacCormack's stories to life, showing the places he and Bowie inhabited, the people they met and the adventures they shared. Beginning at Burnt Ash Pri ...Show more
David Watkins - An Autobiography by David Watkins; David Parry-Jones
$15.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
Don't Die with the Music in You by Wayne W. Bennett
$18.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
One of Rugby League's innovative mentors, his profile on "Australian Story" revealed him as a man of great compassion with powerful family ties. This book presents the autobiography of the premiership-winning coach of the Brisbane Broncos.