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At Her Majesty's Pleasure by Robert Douglas
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In his final instalment in his autobiographical trilogy, Robert Douglas takes us through the sixties and into the eighties with his memories of life as a prison officer, and, at the end of his career, as an electricity chargehand driving around the Yorkshire Dales. He tells us of his prison experiences, ...Show more
Becoming Dickens : The Invention of a Novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
64.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England's greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens's early career, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the nov ...Show more
Somewhere To Lay My Head by Douglas Robert
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his return to Glasgow and life down the pit. Once more, Robert's fantastic memory for people, places and anecdotes, combined with an ear for ...Show more
Story of Alice; Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
46.99 NZD
Category: History
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage - a short cut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject: of Charles Dodgson, the quiet academic, and his second ...Show more
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
69.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage - a shortcut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject: of Charles Dodgson, the quiet academic, and his second s ...Show more
The Turning Point - A Year that Changed Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A major new biography of Charles Dickens, tracing the year that would transform his life and times *BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BECOMING DICKENS AND THE STORY OF ALICE* 'It is hard to imagine a better book on Dickens' NEW STATESMAN The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when indu ...Show more
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