Mom and Me and Mom (#7) by Maya Angelou
$28.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.'So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, and mother to Maya Angelou, b ...Show more
Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson, Tuulikki Pietila
$33.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated there to live, p ...Show more
Russell (The Great Philosophers) by Ray Monk
$19.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Series: The\Great Philosophers Ser.
'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts' Bertrand Russell'Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know'Bertrand Russell discovered mathematics at the age of eleven. It was, he recalled, a transpor ...Show more
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (#3) by Maya Angelou
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Series: Christmas Fiction Ser.
A memoir about motherhood and music from the bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Lovin ...Show more
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
The official biography of the award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate. 'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.' At the time of his death in 201 ...Show more
The Heart Of A Woman (#4) by Maya Angelou
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
From the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, this memoir chronicles Maya Angelou's involvement with the civil rights movement. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to t ...Show more
The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
$50.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
These are the complete journals of Sylvia Plath. "Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and ...Show more
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Donna ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final years John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Pr ...Show more
Dante by Alessandro Barbero
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
A new biography of Dante from award-winning historian Alessandro Barbero and translator Allan Cameron.
Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts by Kathryn Harkup
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear - that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowled ...Show more