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Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A biography of Bruce Chatwin, based on private notebooks, diaries, letters and hundreds of interviews. It illuminates the many sides of Chatwin, from Sotheby's director, archaeologist, "Sunday Times" journalist and traveller to devoted husband and active gay, socialite and loner.
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, t ...Show more
In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wanted to live. He didn't know then that his ancestor was the corrupt and colourful Anthony Fenn Kemp, now known as 'the Father of Tasmania', or that ...Show more
In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer's discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wante ...Show more
In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: good
In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer
Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
What would you do if you suddenly and unexpectedly inherited GBP17million? This is what happens to Andy Larkham, recently jilted lover, and resentfully underpaid publishing minion. Arriving late to the funeral of his favourite schoolteacher, he ends up in the wrong chapel with one other mourner, too em ...Show more
Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Andy Larkham is late. He is due at the funeral of his favourite school teacher, who once told him: 'It's hard work being anyone.' It's especially hard for Andy - stuck in a dead-end job, terminally short of cash and with a fiancee who is about to ditch him. When the funeral leads to unexpected consequen ...Show more
Oddfellows by Nicholas Shakespeare
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"On 1 January 1915, ramifications from the First World War, raging half a world away, were felt in Broken Hill, Australia, when in a guerrilla-style military operation, four citizens were killed and seven wounded. It was the annual picnic day in Broken Hill and a thousand citizens were dressed for fun w ...Show more
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. 'A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival, no ...Show more
Priscilla : The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is the astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. "A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival ...Show more
Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the timeless beauty of the land and his encounter with a young woman whose own life has been mar ...Show more