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Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. Vita Sackville-West is perhaps best known as the creator, with her husband Harold Nicol ...Show more
Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia by Matthew Dennison
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Empress of Rome is a brand-new biography of one of the most fascinating, perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia. Second wife of the emperor Augustus and the mother of his successor Tiberius, Livia has been vilified by posterity (most notably by Tacitus and Robert Graves) ...Show more
Eternal Boy - The Life of Kenneth Grahame by Matthew Dennison
39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
During the week Kenneth Grahame sat behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the Bank of England; at the weekend he retired to the house in the country he shared with his fanciful wife Elspeth and fragile son Alistair and took lengthy walks along the Thames in Berkshire, 'tempted [by] the treasures of hed ...Show more
Eternal Boy - The Life of Kenneth Grahame by Matthew Dennison
22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR. 'Matthew Dennison skilfully covers the facts, producing a vivid impression of this strange, shy, awkward figure. The result is a highly readable book'Literary Review.'A haunting new biography ... A compelling account of Grahame's life'Daily Mail.'A sensitively probing and nuanc ...Show more
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter by Matthew Dennison
25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of her remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three "tales," M ...Show more
The First Iron Lady - A Life of Caroline of Ansbach by Matthew Dennison
25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'A brilliant study of a brilliant woman' LUCY WORSLEYHistory has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as 'the cleverest queen consort Britain ever had'.The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband George II, Caroline ...Show more
The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter by Matthew Dennison
34.99 NZD
38.00 (7% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was four and as Matthew Dennison relates Victoria came to depend on her youngest daughter absolutely, but she also demanded from her complete submission. It is an enthralling story, not just of a mother/daught ...Show more
The Queen by Matthew Dennison
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The magisterial life of the woman whose family's personal intrigues, romances and political rivalries have shaped much of post-war British history. An elegant and magisterial new biography of Her Majesty The Queen, tracing the events of a reign that now spans seven decades, and evaluating her achievemen ...Show more
The Twelve Caesars by Matthew Dennison
28.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In The Twelve Caesars, Matthew Dennison offers a beautifully crafted sequence of colourful biographies of each emperor, triumphantly evoking the luxury, licence, brutality and sophistication of imperial Rome at its zenith. But as well as vividly recreating the lives, loves and vices of this motley group ...Show more
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