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Metamorphosis - A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time ... But sometimes we are unlucky. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting room of an ...Show more
Story of Alice; Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
47.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage - a short cut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject: of Charles Dodgson, the quiet academic, and his second ...Show more
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
32.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction: General
This title was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Biography Award. This is the secret story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. Charles Dodgson was a quiet academic but his second ...Show more
The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
30.00 NZD
Category: History
A major new biography of Charles Dickens, tracing the year that would transform his life and times*BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BECOMING DICKENS AND THE STORY OF ALICE*'It is hard to imagine a better book on Dickens' NEW STATESMANThe year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industr ...Show more
The Turning Point - A Year that Changed Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
55.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A major new biography of Charles Dickens, tracing the year that would transform his life and times *BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BECOMING DICKENS AND THE STORY OF ALICE* 'It is hard to imagine a better book on Dickens' NEW STATESMAN The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when indu ...Show more
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