Much Ado About Shakespeare by Donovan Bixley
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
There has never been a period when Shakespeare was out of fashion. In his lifetime he was incredibly successful, and soon after his death his works were published to the world. Within these pages you will find a new interpretation of Shakespeare's stages, a play on words, which sheds light on the colour ...Show more
First Lady by Alison Mau
$44.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
An honest, insightful, sometimes brutal but often hilarious account of Elizabeth Roberts, the first New Zealander to undergo full sex-change surgery. Her dramatic story tells of the often torturous transition from the boy Garry, to the woman Elizabeth, but the book is not just about the transsexual exp ...Show more
Winging It by Cory Jane, Scotty Stevenson
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Not since the legendary Eric Rush departed the scene has New Zealand rugby had a jokester/prankster quite like Rugby World Cup-winning winger Cory ‘CJ’ Jane. Cory is one of the funniest men in the game and was one of the first of our top sportsmen to embrace social media, in particular Twitter, as a mea ...Show more
Elizabeth Woodville by Macgibbon David
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV, mother of Elizabeth of Y ork and the Princes in the Tower and grandmother of Henry VIII, has been vilified and defended in turn. Was she a cunning enchantress, an ambitious advancer of her family's fortunes, or a courageous and tragic figure who lost husbands, bro ...Show more
Kings and Queens of England by Parker Robert
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
England holds the unique position as the cradle of modern democratic parliamentary government while simultaneously retaining one of the world's longest-running monarchies. The Kings & Queens of England offers a concise and penetrating review of not only the lives and personalities of the monarchs bu ...Show more
Doctor Crippen by Connell Christopher
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1910 Cora Crippen, an unsuccessful music-hall artiste known as Belle Elmore, was murdered by her husband Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American quack doctor, at their London home. During a search of the house, Scotland Yard found the remains of her body under the cellar floor. The crime was probably t ...Show more
Shakespeare's Lover by Burl Aubrey
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The years when she brought delight, desire and disgust to Shakespeare came after the Spanish Armada of 1588 and before the Gunpowder Plot of 1605: a long, unsettled period of theatre, music, warfare and brutal death. Those years were dramatically rich. Shakespeare wrote plays including Romeo and Juliet, ...Show more
Spitfire!:Tthe Experiences of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot by Lane Brian
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The remarkable Battle of Britain experiences of Spitfire pilot Brian Lane, DFC. Brian Lane was only 23 when he when he wrote his dramatic account of life as a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940. Lane was an 'ace' with six enemy 'kills' to his credit and was awarded the DFC ...Show more
Richard III by Baldwin David
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The only biography to include the findings of the archaeological dig in the Leicester car park. Not many people would claim to be saints, or alternatively, consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others, but few have been held in greater infamy than R ...Show more
Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women by Hartley Jenny
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Messenger a Self Portrait by Mary Fisher
$31.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Mary Fisher took America by storm the evening of 19 August 19 1992, when she addressed the Republican National Convention and gave the world a new face of American AIDS: a winsome mother of two pre-schoolers who had contracted the virus within her marriage. She had been a television producer and had bee ...Show more
Anne Neville Richard III's Tragic Queen by Licence Amy
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Shakespeare's enduring image of Richard III's queen is one of bitterness and sorrow. Anne curses the killer of her husband and father, before succumbing to his marriage proposal, bringing to herself a terrible legacy of grief and suffering an untimely death. Was Anne a passive victim? Did she really jum ...Show more