The Spy Who Loved by Clare Mulley
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: 16
In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessive colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising, but that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable. The daughter of a feckless Polish aristocratic and his wealthy Jewis ...Show more
The Spy Who Loved Castro: How I Was Recruited by the CIA to Kill Fidel Castro by Marita Lorenz
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Few can say they've seen some of the most significant moments of the twentieth century unravel before their eyes. Marita Lorenz is one of them.Born in Germany at the outbreak of WWII, Marita was incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp as a child. In 1959, she travelled to Cuba where she met and fell i ...Show more
The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, Britain's First Female Special Agent of WWII by Clare Mulley
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This is the extraordinary untold story of one of WWII's most daring female spies. In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising, but that she had survived the Second World War w ...Show more
The Spy in the Bookshop : Letters between Heywood Hill and John Saumarez Smith 1966-74 by John Saumarez Smith (ed)
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Whilst compiling and editing "The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street", described as 'a little gem' by the "Sunday Times", John Saumarez Smith discovered that one side of that 'elegant and entertaining' ("Spectator") and 'thought provoking and... laugh out loud' ("Country Life") correspondence, had been to som ...Show more
The Spy's Son: The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia by Bryan Denson
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
The true account of the Nicholsons, the father and son who sold national secrets to Russia. "One of the strangest spy stories in American history" (Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the Snowman). Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the fath ...Show more
The Stig: The Untold Story by Simon du Beaumarche
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The author has pursued "Top Gear's" enigmatic The Stig--sometimes literally--in a relentless quest to unearth the truth and now, at last, his incredible findings can be revealed The Stig is known to millions as "Top Gear'"s tame racing driver," "famed for his skillful driving and his legendary reluctan ...Show more
The Sting Man: The True Story Behind the Film American Hustle by Robert W. Greene
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The Sting Man: The True Story Behind the Film American Hustle. The inspiration behind the film American Hustle, directed by David O'Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter) and starring Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams. How did a Bronx hustler nearly bring down the U ...Show more
The Story of Beatrix Potter by Sarah Gristwood
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: National Trust History & Heritage
To this day, Beatrix Potter's tales delight children and grown-ups around the world. But few people realise how extraordinary her own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern businesswoman. A talented artist who became a scientific expert ...Show more
The Story of Che Guevara by Lucía Álvarez de Toledo
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Che Guevara is something of a symbol in the West, a representative of Sixties counterculture and the face adorning the T-shirts of a million student radicals. But in the rest of the world he is something else: a charismatic revolutionary who redrew the political map of Latin America and gave hope to tho ...Show more
The Story of Chicago May by Nuala O'Faolain
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Nuala O'Faolain received critical acclaim for her candid memoirs Are You Somebody? and Almost There. Here, she embraces the life of a notorious criminal, an unrepentant and enigmatic daughter of Ireland - Chicago May. Legend says that May was a mesmerizing beauty, with startling blue eyes and hair spun ...Show more
The Strange Last Voyage Of Donald Crowhurst (Film Tie-In 'The Mercy') by Nicholas Tomalin
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Now a major motion picture starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz, directed by James Marsh (The Theory of Everything). In 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical navigation device he had developed, and saw the Sunday Times Golden Globe round the world sailing race as the perfect opportunit ...Show more
The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House by Chuck Todd
$55.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But when he got to 1600, that distinction turned out to be double-bladed. As president, Obama hoped to mount a second campaign, one for the heart of the Democratic Party and, he hoped, America, a new idology of progress ...Show more