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
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1 ...Show more
In the Blood : A memoir of my childhood by Andrew Motion
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Written from a teenage child's point of view, "Motion" captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of expression and freshness of memory. We encounter a strange but beguiling extended family, a profound love of the natural world, a troubled schooling, and a growing passion for boo ...Show more
Utopian Dreams: In Search of a Good Life by Tobias Jones
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This is a travel book, an account of the year Tobias Jones spent living in communes and amongst unusual dreamers. It is his attempt to retreat from the 'real world' - which is making him emptier and angrier by the day - and seek out the alternatives to modern manners and morality. Instead of cynicism, l ...Show more
Utopian Dreams : In Search of a Good Life by Tobias Jones
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Utopian Dreams" offers one writer's attempt to retreat from the 'real world' - which is making him emptier and angrier by the day - and seek out the alternatives to modern manners and morality. Instead of cynicism, loneliness and depression, is it possible to be idealistic, to find belonging and compan ...Show more
The Last Englishman: The double life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Arthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what J.K. Rowling is today: author of a series of children's books which shaped the imagination of a generation. Rooted in the heyday of the British Empire, "Swallows and Amazons" and its sequels described a nostalgic Utopia. Yet before that, Arthur Rans ...Show more
The Pope's Daughter by Caroline P. Murphy
32.99 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The untold story of how Felice della Rovere, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, became the most powerful woman in Rome. Caroline P. Murphy evokes not only the great turbulence and creativity of Renaissance Italy, but also Felice's daily life, from dealing with squabbles among servants to her a ...Show more
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
49.99 NZD
55.00 (9% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This selection includes correspondence from Hughes's marriage to Sylvia Plath, and his letters to those he trusted reveal much about his feelings for her. At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a proli ...Show more