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Family Business - An Intimate History of John Lewis and the Partnership by Victoria Glendinning
42.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Who was John Lewis? What story lies behind the retail empire that bears his name? Born into poverty, John Lewis was orphaned at the age of seven when his father died in a ...Show more
Family Business - An Intimate History of John Lewis and the Partnership by Victoria Glendinning
22.99 AUD
Category: History
From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography.'It's Succession in tailcoats and spats ... This is a vivid and eye-opening group biography, backgrounded by the rise of supermarket moguls from humble beginnings' Sunday ...Show more
Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning
24.99 AUD
Category: History
By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the founder of Singapore and Governor of Java, having left school in his early teens to become a clerk for the British East India Company. Charismatic and daring, Raffles forged an extraordinary path for himself in South East Asia - refus ...Show more
Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil ...Show more
Raffles and the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil ...Show more
Raffles and the Golden Opportunity 1781-1826 by Victoria Glendinning
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil ...Show more
The Butcher's Daughter (HB) by Victoria Glendinning
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
We are, all of us, princes and peasants, alone in this world. The Butcher 's Daughter is the richly atmospheric story of a young woman 's struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue and danger in a period of great upheaval during the Tudor era. It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of ...Show more
The Return Of The Soldier (Virago Modern Classic) by Rebecca West; Sadie Jones (Introduction by); Victoria Glendinning (Introduction by)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Weald ...Show more
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