Viva Malvina! The Lives of Dame Malvina Major by Joy Tonks
$18.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In this book Dame Malvina Major talks openly about her life, her dreams, the disappointments, and the tremendous spirit that has kept her singing for almost sixty years. She relates fascinating aspects of the performing life, and behind-the-scene stories reveal her humanity and humour. As a child, daugh ...Show more
W. Churchill Biography - Vol IV 1916-1922 by Martin Gilbert
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Whistler - A Biography by Stanley Weintraub
$17.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
He was the most notorious and misunderstood American artist of his time, and also the most influential. To this day James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is one of the most recognized names in painting because of his celebrated (and endlessly satirized) Whistler's Mother, one of the treasures of th ...Show more
William Morris: His Homes and Haunts by The Countess of Warwick
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Wilson by A. Scott Berg
$18.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg has completed Wilson - ...Show more
Winston S. Churchill - 1914-1916 by Martin Gilbert
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Winston S. Churchill - Vol. V 1922-1939 by Martin Gilbert
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Winston S. Churchill - Young Stateman, 1901-1914 by Randolph S. Churchill
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
You Are My Darling Zita by Glenn Busch
$28.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Series: Visual Studies | Reading Level: very good
In these remarkable personal testimonies, six people, who were all born around 1900, reflect on the changes in their lives as old age comes upon them. Photographs from their family albums and portraits made by Glenn Busch at the time of the interviews join together with their words to create deeply pers ...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