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Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
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
23.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
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: Biography/Memoir
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
The Twelve Caesars by Matthew Dennison
29.00 NZD
Category: History
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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