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Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. Vita Sackville-West is perhaps best known as the creator, with her husband Harold Nicol ...Show more
Eternal Boy - The Life of Kenneth Grahame by Matthew Dennison
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR. 'Matthew Dennison skilfully covers the facts, producing a vivid impression of this strange, shy, awkward figure. The result is a highly readable book'Literary Review.'A haunting new biography ... A compelling account of Grahame's life'Daily Mail.'A sensitively probing and nuanc ...Show more
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter by Matthew Dennison
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of her remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three "tales," M ...Show more
Queen Victoria: A Celebrated Life by Matthew Dennison
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Queen Victoria had a very complicated and psychologically fascinating personality and only a very talented biographer could get to the key of her character. Fortunately in Matthew Dennison's pithy, well-researched, beautifully written and very accessible book, she has found one' Andrew Roberts In this ...Show more
Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl, An Unofficial Biography by Matthew Dennison
$54.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From one of our finest contemporary biographers, a concise life of Roald Dahl - much-loved author and creator of numerous iconic literary characters. Roald Dahl was one of the world's greatest storytellers. He conceived his vocation as one as intrepid as that of any explorer and, in his writing for chil ...Show more
Teller of the Unexpected - The Life of Roald Dahl: An Unofficial Biography by Matthew Dennison
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The First Iron Lady - A Life of Caroline of Ansbach by Matthew Dennison
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
'A brilliant study of a brilliant woman' LUCY WORSLEYHistory has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as 'the cleverest queen consort Britain ever had'.The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband George II, Caroline ...Show more
The Last Princess by Matthew Dennison
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Queen Victoria's favourite child - the true story of a royal mother-daughter relationship that changed history Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was four and as Matthew Dennison relates Victoria came to depend on her youngest daughter absol ...Show more
The Queen by Matthew Dennison
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The magisterial life of the woman whose family's personal intrigues, romances and political rivalries have shaped much of post-war British history. An elegant and magisterial new biography of Her Majesty The Queen, tracing the events of a reign that now spans seven decades, and evaluating her achievemen ...Show more
The Twelve Caesars by Matthew Dennison
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come to be known as the 'twelve Caesars' - Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, ...Show more
The Twelve Caesars by Matthew Dennison
$28.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In The Twelve Caesars, Matthew Dennison offers a beautifully crafted sequence of colourful biographies of each emperor, triumphantly evoking the luxury, licence, brutality and sophistication of imperial Rome at its zenith. But as well as vividly recreating the lives, loves and vices of this motley group ...Show more
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