The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one novels - several of which are now established classics - Maugham expertly concealed a private life. Predo ...Show more
A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham
$34.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and exhilarating ...Show more
The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
$32.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, this book is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft.
Science Fiction - A Literary History by Roger Luckhurst (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Science fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years. This book offers a survey of the genre from 19th-century pioneers to contemporary authors, introducing the plural versions of early SF across the world, before examining the emergence of the "scientific romance" in the 1880s and 1 ...Show more
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing by Debra Adelaide
$35.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
In a book whose charm and erudition recalls 84 Charing Cross Road or Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead, one of our most prolific and respected authors, Debra Adelaide, shares a joyous and plaintive glimpse into a reading and writing life.This mercurial work is much more than memoir, much more ...Show more
The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her si ...Show more
Long Live the Queen - Mighty, Magnificent and Bloody Marvellous Queens We've Forgotten by Emma Marriott
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
Powerful and influential kings have long dominated our view of global history, their queens often relegated to the shadows, their influence, deeds and sacrifices unacknowledged and lost in the passing of time. But not anymore... This book chronicles the forgotten queens from across the globe - those wh ...Show more
Running with the Bulls : My Years With The Hemingways by Valerie Hemingway
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face to face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked into place. For the next two years, Valerie devoted her life to Hemingway and his wife, Mary, traveling ...Show more
Last Boat Out of Shanghai - The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution--a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. "A true page-turner . . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history is something that ha ...Show more
Three Tigers, One Mountain - A journey through the bitter history and current conflicts of China, Korea and Japan by Michael Booth
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'The next Bill Bryson' (New York Times) explores international relations past and present between three East Asian countries - Japan, South Korea and China - in this lively, absorbing travelogue China, Korea and Japan are the neighbours who love to hate each other. But why? More than neighbours, these ...Show more
Patriot or Traitor - The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh by Anna Beer
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
A BBC History Magazine Book of the YearA writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. The fifth son of a Devonshire gentleman, he rose to become Queen Elizabeth's favourite, only to be charged with treason by her succ ...Show more
Heart by Sandeep Jauhar
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
'Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.' -Henry Marsh, New Statesman A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year The heart l ...Show more