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Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison
25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
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
Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia by Matthew Dennison
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Empress of Rome is a brand-new biography of one of the most fascinating, perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia. Second wife of the emperor Augustus and the mother of his successor Tiberius, Livia has been vilified by posterity (most notably by Tacitus and Robert Graves) ...Show more
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter by Matthew Dennison
25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
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 First Iron Lady - A Life of Caroline of Ansbach by Matthew Dennison
25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
'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 Twelve Caesars by Matthew Dennison
29.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction | 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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