Around the Corners, Out to the Edges - A Memoir by composer Jonathan Besser by Jonathon Besser; Nicola McCloy
$50.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Acclaimed classical music composer and director Jonathan Besser's career has been colourful and experimental, immersed in the burgeoning New Zealand art scene of the '70s and '80s. Born into a Jewish household in New York in 1949, Jonathan struggled in school as a neuro-atypical child, before delving in ...Show more
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Reissued with Beatrix Potter illustrations and previously unpublished materials, this book combines authoritative text with colour photographs taken during the course of a complete year to show the Lake District in all its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.
Bishops: My Turbulent Colonial Youth by Mona Williams
$15.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
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.
Black in Selma - The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr. by J. L. Chestnut Jr.; Julia Cass
$27.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
On March 7,1965, George Wallace lined a bridge in Selma with statetroopers to prevent a civil rights march to Montgomery. Among those present was 34-year-old lawyer, J. L. Chestnut, a brilliant, passionate and unflinchingly tenacious champion of a people and a cause. Black in Selma is his story. Candid ...Show more
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
Bosie: The Tragic Life of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray
$27.99 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Lord Alfred Douglas, known as 'Bosie', son of the Marquess of Queensberry, was known as one of the most beautiful young men of his generation. Aged twenty-one he met and became the lover and subsequent obsession of Oscar Wilde.Their relationship caused a scandal in 1895 when Wilde took Queensberry, Doug ...Show more
Bowie at the BBC: A life in interviews by David Bowie, Tom Hagler
$50.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
In this collection of BBC television and radio transcripts, Bowie's life story is told in his own words, across more than 35 appearances spanning over forty years.
Boycs - The True Story by Leo McKinstry
$22.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Few modern British sportsmen have fascinated the public more than Geoff Boycott. In this first comprehensive and balanced account of Boycott's life -- fully updated to include his battle against cancer -- award-winning author Leo McKinstry lifts the lid on one of cricket's great enigmatic characters. ne ...Show more
Castlereagh: The Biography of a Statesman by John Bew
$18.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Damned in corruscating verse by Shelley and Byron, his coffin hissed at during his funeral, Lord Castlereagh has one of the blackest reputations in British history. But as John Bew shows, this is but a half-drawn portrait. His gripping biography reveals a shy, inarticulate but passionate ma ...Show more
Childhood, Youth & Exile - Being Parts I & II of My Past and Thoughts by Alexander Herzen
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
This book comprises the first two parts of Herzen's autobiography, My Past and Thoughts, one of the greatest monuments of Russian literature, comparable to the major works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev. Herzen begins with his nurse's account of Napoleon's occupation of Moscow in 1812, and continu ...Show more
Churchill by Roy Jenkins
$18.75 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Roy Jenkins presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character. Pape ...Show more