Nab End and Beyond: An Extraordinary Northern Childhood - The Road to Nab End and Beyond Nab End by William Woodruff
35.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn - a treat was sh ...Show more
Graham Greene: A Life In Letters by Richard Greene
33.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
One of the undisputed masters of English prose in the twentieth century, Graham Greene (1904-91) wrote tens of thousands of personal letters. This substantial volume presents a new and engrossing account of his life constructed out of his own words. Meticulously chosen and engagingly annotated, this sel ...Show more
This is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood by Hyok Kang
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside world. This personal, illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and everyday life with his family and community provides a rare glimpse of this secretive nation. His shocking and m ...Show more
The Sound of No Hands Clapping by Toby Young
37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When even his friends refer to him as 'a balding, bug-eyed opportunist with the looks of a beach ball, the charisma of a glove-puppet and an ego the size of a Hercules supply plane,' the odds of Toby Young scoring - in any sense - appear to be slim. But then How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, his ...Show more
The Sound of No Hands Clapping by Toby Young
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When even his friends refer to him as 'a balding, bug-eyed opportunist with the looks of a beach ball, the charisma of a glove-puppet and an ego the size of a Hercules supply plane,' the odds of Toby Young scoring - in any sense - appear to be slim. But then HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS, his memoir about failing ...Show more
Leaving Mother Lake:A Childhood at the edge of the world by Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Tibetans refer to Moso country as 'The Country of Daughters' because of their unique matrilineal society. In Moso culture, daughters are favoured children. There is no word for father, marriage is considered a backward practice, and property is passed on from mother to daughter. Leaving Mother Lake ...Show more
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science by Michael White and John Gribbin
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Originally published in 1992 to great acclaim, this updated edition traces the course of Hawking (TM)s life and science, successfully marrying biography and physics to tell the story of a remarkable man. Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. With a career that began over thirty years ago at Camb ...Show more
Chopin's Funeral by Benita Eisler
29.99 NZD
32.95 (8% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Abacus Bks. | Reading Level: good
At twenty-one, Frederic Chopin fled Russian-occupied Poland for exile in France. He would never see his native country again. With only two public concerts in as many years, he became a star of Parisian society, revered by his great contemporaries Schumann, Liszt, and the painter Eugene Delacroix. Bless ...Show more
Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling by Charles Allen
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen's great-grandfather brought the sixteen-year-old Kipling out to Lahore to work on The Civil and Military Gazette with the words 'Kipling wi ...Show more
Her Husband : Hughes and Plath - A marriage by Diane Wood Middlebrook
37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers. Plath's suicide six and a half years later, for which many held Hughes accountable, changed his life, his closest relationships, his standing in the literary world and brought new significance to his poetry. In this stunn ...Show more
Bess of Hardwick: The First Lady of Chatsworth 1527-1608 by Mary S. Lovell
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of The Mitford Girls: A 'wonderfully researched' (Sunday Express) biography of Bess of Hartwick, the most powerful woman in England next to Queen Elizabeth Bringing 'the Tudor Age to exuberant life' (Hugh Massingberd, Mail on Sunday), Mary S. Lovell tells the story of Bess of ...Show more
Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl by Steven Bach
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Revealing biography of one of the twentieth century's most controversial figures; and the first significant biography to have been published since the subject's death