Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The first major biography of the pathbreaking, perpetually influential surrealist artist and iconoclast whose inspiration can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé--by the celebrated biographer of Cézanne and Braque In this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898‒1967), Alex Danchev ma ...Show more
Missing by Tom Patterson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography
He was brilliant and troubled and for thirty-five years he lived alone in the wild... then there was silence Beautifully written and affecting, this is the true story of a young man caught in a world he can't control and how he finds a way to survive. 'This compelling, moving tale of a singular indivi ...Show more
The Mayor of Castro Street - The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The definitive biography of Harvey Milk: an emotionally compelling story of the life and death of the first openly gay man to be elected to US political office.
Rose: The Extraordinary Story of Rose de Freycinet: Wife, Stowaway and the First Woman to Record her Voyage Around the World by Suzanne Falkiner
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who defied the French for love. In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married handsome naval officer Louis de Freycinet, fifteen years her senior. Three years later, unable to bear parting from her husband, she dre ...Show more
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee by Joanna Lumley
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A sparkling celebration of our much-loved Queen Elizabeth II for her Platinum Jubilee including special writings and illuminating insights around key moments in her 70-year reign, introduced and edited by her biggest fan Joanna Lumley. In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrates seventy years as Queen and He ...Show more
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel Joseph
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence, Black power vs. civil rights, the sword vs. the shield. The struggle for Black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While nonviolent direct action is remembered as an unassailable p ...Show more
Little Bird of Auschwitz: How My Mother Escaped Death and Found Our Family by Jacques Peretti
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'My son Jacques is telling my story. I always wanted to tell it myself but never could. Maybe my English wasn't good enough. I never had the courage. I never imagined for a second it would be written down.' As a reporter, Jacques Peretti has spent his life investigating important stories. But there was ...Show more
Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography
One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conversations with him. One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conversa ...Show more
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes by Zoe Playdon
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The never-before-told story of Ewan Forbes and the landmark case that rocked British society and transformed transgender experience to this day' Magnificently researched and told' Lord Michael Cashman CBE 'A landmark work' Baroness Helena Kennedy QC 'Gripping and important' Michael Bronski, author of ...Show more
Heiresses : The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress – glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating – from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. 'Life is less sad with money', said Emerald Cunard; Barbara Hutton was the 'Poor Little Rich Girl', but which is true? Laura Thompson explores the phenomen ...Show more
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville West by Victoria Glendinning (Foreword by)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Ser.
Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghur ...Show more
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet, prol ...Show more