“frank katherine”

Mary Kingsley began her life as a typically conventional Victorian woman. She would end up travelling to some of the most inhospitable regions of Africa and became one of the most celebrated travellers of the day. At the age of 31, she sailed on a cargo ship along the coast from Sierra Leone to Ango... More

Lucie Duff Gordon was a world apart from her Victorian counterparts. An intellectual, traveller, writer and progressive social commentator, she and her husband led a bohemian, eccentric and highly unconventional life in London, socialising with such luminaries as Tennyson, Dickens and Thackeray. In ... More

The most gifted of her famous, troubled family, Emily Bronte has too often been portrayed in "storm-tossed, sentimental" biographies, according to Katherine Frank. Now Frank presents a startling new interpretation: pledged to self-denial and social isolation, Emily starved herself, contributing to h... More

This is more than just a travelbook. Thanks to Frank Simoes’s perceptive eye and abiding love for all thingsGoan, it is a delightful, finely-etched portrait of a people and their way oflife.... More

Editorial Review COMES WITH A CD OF A MUSIC NUMBER BY REMO FERNANADAS.When Frank Simoes, in his own words, ‘gatecrashed the advertising party’ in the Sixties, his bosses at S.H. Benson, precursor of Ogilvy Benson & Mather, knew they had found a young man of talent. That he would create advertis... More

Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. I... More

This is the third memoir from the author of the 'Angela's Ashes' and ' 'Tis'. In 'Teacher Man', Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City.... More

The candid, poignant, unforgettable writing of the young girl whose own life story has become an everlasting source of courage and inspiration. Hiding from the Nazis in the " Secret Annex" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famo... More

A business classic, How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling is for anyone whose job it is to sell. Whether you are selling houses or mutual funds, advertisements or ideas - or anything else - this book is for you.When Frank Bettger was twenty-nine he was a failed insurance salesman. B... More