Buckley's Chance (PB) by Garry Linnell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. e was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England, ...Show more
Young Rembrandt by Onno Blom
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An immersive exploration of the little-known story of Rembrandt's formative years. Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist in the world? With his formative years shrouded in mystery, the only remaining evidence of Rembra ...Show more
Misadventures by Sylvia Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Canons Ser.
Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman's life in twentieth-century London. Sylvia Smith's deadpan patter belies the startling complexities, humour and darkness at the heart of this remarkable memoir.
Let's Hope for the Best by Caroline Setterwall
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I think the world should read it' LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMEN A Guardian Book of the Year After the unexpected death of her partner, Carolina Setterwall found herself bereft and rudderless at thirty-six, faced with the seemingly impossible task of raising her son alone. In this remarkable Swedis ...Show more
Chanel: An Intimate Life by Lisa Chaney
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In "Chanel: An Intimate Life", acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era. Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She ...Show more
Mr Lear - A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustratedbiography of Edward Lear, shortlisted for Waterstone's Book of the Year, and a Telegraph and Spectator Book of the Year.
From Broken Glass - My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation by Steve Ross; Glenn Frank; Brian Wallace; Ray Flynn (Foreword by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair.On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of ...Show more
Les Parisiennes : How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s by Anne Sebba
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016 What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until - finally - renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, glamour was ever ...Show more
No Beast So Fierce - The Champawat Tiger and Her Hunter, the First Tiger Conservationist by Dane Huckelbridge
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrative is also a nuanced story of how colonialism and environmental destruction upset the natural order, placing man, tiger and nature on a collision course. In ...Show more
The Stranger in the Mirror by Jane Shilling
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I looked in the mirror one morning, and saw the face of a stranger. Who was she, this haggard, bun-faced woman with the softening jawline, the downturned mouth, the world-weary air of a woman who hasn't had what she wanted from life, and knows she isn't going to get it now? Why, it was no one else but ...Show more
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography, Alison Weir brings Henry's six wives vividly to life, revealing each as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right. Drawing upon the rich fund o ...Show more
Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family. At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the o ...Show more