Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Glitteringly detailed and engagingly written, the magisterial Elizabeth I brings to vivid life the golden age of sixteenth-century England and the uniquely fascinating monarch who presided over it. A woman of intellect and presence, Elizabeth was the object of extravagant adoration by her contemporaries ...Show more
Elizabeth I: The World of A Prince. A Life From Contemporary Documents by Maria Pery
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. "Orator, wit, stylist and Queen Elizabeth Tudor was one of the most prolific writers of the golden age bearing her name. Few people realise that her first book was published when she was fourteen and a half years old by John Bale, a controversial heretic whose works had been banned in Engla ...Show more
Enemy Coast Ahead by Guy Gibson
$18.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1944, Enemy Coast Ahead combines Guy Gibson’s RAF career, including the famous Dambuster raid which he himself led, with the inside story of life in RAF Bomber Command and is still a riveting read for the immediacy and vibrancy of its writing.
Ernest Dieffenbach - Rebel and Humanist by Gerda Elizabeth Bell
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution by John Eidinow
$39.99 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The thousands of academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her?This is the story of Esther Simpson, a remarkable woman history has largely forgotten, but whose selfless actions left an indelible mark on the cultural and intellectual ...Show more
Events in the Life of Phillip Tapsell: The Old Dane by Jonathan Adams
$45.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Hans Falk, born in 1790 in Copenhagen, took to the sea as a lad, changed his name to Phillip Tapsell, and after many adventures settled at Maketu in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty. There he became the key trader for Bay of Plenty iwi and married into the highest levels of Te Arawa, while helping other trib ...Show more
Every Sign of Life - On Family Ground by Nicholas Lyon Gresson
$69.99 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: new
Respectable families hold on to their myths, contain the violence, uphold the Establishment. There was always going to be a story. It couldn’t be overlooked, and this one will set the skeletons rattling and the gin bottles clinking up and down the country. The story is exposed through the life and times ...Show more
Faces of Philip - A Memoir of Philip Toynbee by Jessica Mitford
$22.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Fire In The Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia, and Zion by John Bierman and Colin Smith
$16.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. Orde Charles Wingate. Winston Churchill thought him a military genius; others considered him greatly over-rated; a few even thought him mad. His overriding passion was for Zionism, a cause which he embraced when posted to British-ruled Palestine in 1936. There he raised the Special Night Sq ...Show more
First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence by Harlow Giles Unger
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. Before Washington, before Jefferson, before Franklin or John Adams, there was Lee--Richard Henry Lee, the First Founding Father. Richard Henry Lee was the first to call for independence, and the first to call for union. He was "father of our country" as much as George Washington, securing ...Show more
Fishing in the Styx : An Autobiography by Ruth Park
$24.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia to continue her work as a journalist, newly married to D'Arcy Niland. Determined to earn their living as writers, they submitted story outlines to radio stations, idea for articles to newspapers and accepted whatever freelance jobs came their way. The Har ...Show more
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World by Frank McLynn
$17.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Cae ...Show more