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Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
$45.00 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
Ian Fleming - The Complete Man (H/B) by Nicholas Shakespeare
$79.99 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 family papers. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculin ...Show more
In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
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
Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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
Oddfellows by Nicholas Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: General 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
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a box documents belonging to his late aunt he was completely unaware of where this discovery would take him. The Priscilla he remembered was very different from the glamorous, morally ambiguous young woman who emerged from the many love letters and journals, su ...Show more
Priscilla : The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$34.99 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
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$24.99 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
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
*** Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and The Economist *** 'A gripping story of Churchill's unlikely rise to power' Observer London, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to i ...Show more
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
London, early May 1940- Britain is on the brink of war and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking over at the helm, but in SIX MINUTES IN MAY Nicholas Shakespeare shows how easily events could have gone in a d ...Show more
Stories from Other Places by Nicholas Shakespeare
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Nicholas Shakespeare's collected stories take us across oceans and continents into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening novella, 'Oddfellows', tells the little-known history of horrifying events that occurred on 1 January 1915 in the Australian out ...Show more