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A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
$55.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life.This enthralling memoir follows her through triumph and tragedy in about equal measure, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and the ...Show more
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Esteemed biographer and legendary literary editor Claire Tomalin's stunning memoir of a life in literature " An] intelligent and humane book...There is genuine appeal in watching this indomitable woman continue to chase the next draft of herself." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times In A Life of My ...Show more
Charles Dickens - A Life by Claire Tomalin
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
"Charles Dickens" is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the cr ...Show more
Charles Dickens : A Life by Claire Tomalin
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pick ...Show more
Samuel Pepys - The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
$31.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to ...Show more
The Invisible Woman (Film Tie-in) The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'This is the story of someone who - almost - wasn't there; who vanished into thin air. Her names, dates, family and experiences very nearly disappeared from the record for good . . . ' Claire Tomalin's multi-award-winning story of the life of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens is a remarkable work of biog ...Show more
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
This is the story of someone who - almost - wasn't there; who vanished into thin air. Her names, dates, family and experiences very nearly disappeared from the record for good...Claire Tomalin's multi-award-winning story of the relationship between Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens is a remarkable work o ...Show more
The Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Claire Tomalin (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A new selection of Hardy's love poems. Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet.
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
$48.53 NZD
Category: Biography
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, the father of science fiction, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H.G Wells' life shape a fantastic writer into a visionary? Claire Tomalin's remarkable and empathetic biography, focusing on HG Wells' early l ...Show more
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