London Under by Peter Ackroyd
$16.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Secondhand. "London Under" is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the ...Show more
Jefferson - Architect of American Liberty by John B Boles
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 Not since Merrill Peterson’s Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, Joh ...Show more
Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture.
My Life and Times by Jerome K Jerome
$21.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. This book is a reprint of the original published in 1926. Superb Folio Society edition of Jerome’s autobiography, especially interesting for the depiction of his family’s crushing poverty in the west midlands. Includes photographs of Jerome and others.
Pepys Diary - Selected and Edited - 3 Volumes by Samuel Pepys
$90.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Beatrix Potter's Lakeland by Hunter Davies; Cressida Pemberton-Pigott (Photographer)
$23.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Reissued with Beatrix Potter illustrations and previously unpublished materials, this book combines authoritative text with colour photographs taken during the course of a complete year to show the Lake District in all its seasons and moods.
Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World: The Catholic Church in the Age of Revolution and Democracy by Ambrogio A. Caiani
$38.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Despite its many crises, especially in Western Europe, there are 1.3 billion Catholics in the world today. The Church remains a powerful but controversial institution.In Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World, Ambrogio A. Caiani explores the epic history of the Roman Catholic Church. Throughout the early m ...Show more
Rasputin : The Last Word by EDVARD RADZINSKY
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Based upon long-lost contemporary documents, this biography presents a sensational account of the life of the Russian peasant mystic whose malign influence led to the downfall of the Romanovs.
Blücher - Scourge of Napoleon by Michael V. Leggiere
$37.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Series: Campaigns and Commanders Ser.
Secondhand. One of the most colorful characters in the Napoleonic pantheon, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819) is best known as the Prussian general who, along with the Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Throughout his long career, Bl ücher distinguished himself as ...Show more
The Science Museum Stephen Hawking Genius at Work: Explore His Life, Mind and Science Through the Objects in His Study by Roger Highfield
$48.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
An intimate exploratory tour of Stephen Hawking's office, providing a unique insight into the mind of a genius and the things that inspired him A behind-the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world's most prominent scientific thinkers. In 2021, the Science Museum made a once-in-a-lifetime ac ...Show more
Younghusband - The Last great Imperial Adventurer by Patrick French
$28.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. A great book on one of the oddest figures of the British Empire - invader of Tibet, visionary and instigator of the hymn 'Jerusalem' Soldier, explorer, mystic, guru and spy, Francis Younghusband began his colonial career as a military adventurer and became a radical visionary who preached ...Show more