Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from "Closing Time" to "Orphans", "Lowside of the Road" is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and ou ...Show more
Family Romance: A Memoir by John Lanchester
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Family Romance is a beautifully written memoir in which John Lanchester joins the dots of his parents' history, their extraordinary secrets and the shape of their shared life. From his grandparents' beginnings in rural Ireland and colonial Rhodesia, Lanchester navigates through his parents lives: his ...Show more
Family Romance : A Memoir by John Lanchester
28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of "Fragrant Harbour", John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets - from his grandparents' life in colonial Rhodesia to his mother's time as a nun - with clear-eyed compassion. First published 2007. ...Show more
Lucia in the Age of Napoleon by Andrea di Robilant
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1797, Lucia, a beautiful statesman's daughter was married off to a powerful Venetian, only to be caught up in the turbulence of Napoleon's march. This is her story, from dazzling young hostess in Habsburg Vienna, lady-in-waiting at the court of Prince Eugene de Beauharnais in Milan, single mother in ...Show more
Coltrane by Ben Ratliff
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
John Coltrane, who died aged 40 in 1967, is one of half a dozen truly fundamental contributors to the history of jazz. No-one - not Armstrong, Ellington or Monk, nor even Charlie Parker - inspires quite the same mystique or continuing intensity of fascination. No young saxophonist of the past forty year ...Show more
Lucia in the Age of Napoleon by Andrea di Robilant
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1797, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a Venetian statesman, was married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families of the once glorious maritime Republic. They were a golden couple in Venice's twilight years. But Lucia's life was suddenly trans ...Show more
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
32.99 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This book brings together Alan Bennett's diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, together with hilarious accounts of his many television plays, notably An Englishman Abroad and A Pr ...Show more
The History Boys (Film edition) by Alan Bennett & Nicholas Hytner (adapted from the original stage play by Alan Bennett)
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's screenplay, staff room rivalry ...Show more
Isabella De' Medici by Caroline P. Murphy
75.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and liberated, she not only matched the intellectual accomplishments of her male contemporaries, but sought sexual parity also, engaging in an adulterous affair with her husband's cousin. It was this affair - a ...Show more
Kate by William Mann
59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
By the time of her death in 2003 at the age of ninety-six, Katharine Hepburn had long been an American institution. The following year, Cate Blanchett's striking depiction of Hepburn's eccentricity in "The Aviator" reminded audiences of the sheer complexity of the woman. William Mann charts the journey ...Show more
Kate: The Woman Who Was Katharine Hepburn by William J. Mann
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
William J. Mann charts the journey by which Kathy Hepburn of Hartford, Connecticut, became the star who dazzled audiences for decades in the company of such luminaries as Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and, most memorably, Spencer Tracy, with whom she made nine movies and conducted a long off-screen romance ...Show more
Last Curtsey: The End of the English Debutante by Fiona MacCarthy
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs