Eminent Elizabethans: Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher & Mick Jagger by Piers Brendon
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
*Margaret Thatcher - the first female Prime Minister, who dedicated herself with messianic zeal to breaking the mould of post-war British politics *Rupert Murdoch - the billionaire media mogul whose empire, built on an ethical void, has polluted the channels of communication from London to Sydney, from ...Show more
The Crossroad by Mark Donaldson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Mark Donaldson was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2009, he was the first Australian to receive our highest award for bravery since Keith Payne's medal in 1969. Mark showed extraordinary courage when he rescued an Afghan interpreter under heavy fire during a bloody ambush in Afghanistan. Something ab ...Show more
America's Mistress: Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times by John L. Williams
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most exciting woman in the world'. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among her friends and ad ...Show more
Starting At Zero: His Own Story by Jimi Hendrix
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
It took just four years in the spotlight for Jimi Hendrix to become an international cultural icon. The sheer impact and originality of his music and his unique mastery of the guitar placed him for ever amongst musical giants. But what of the man behind the public image? Modest and intensely private by ...Show more
David Jason: The Autobiography by David Jason
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the long-awaited autobiography of one of Britain's best-loved actors. Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early life dodging bombs and bullies, both with impish good timing. Giving up on an unloved career as an electrician, he ...Show more
Elizabeth of York - The First Tudor Queen by Alison Weir
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. The eldest daughter of Edward IV, at seventeen she was relegated from pampered princess to bastard fugitive, but the probable murders of her brothers, the Princes in the Tower, left Elizabeth heiress to the royal House of ...Show more
After All These Years: Our Story by Mick Foster
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the combined life story of Mick Foster and Tony Allen, revealing how these most unlikely of stars toured the world and entered the record books. A charming narrative told with heaps of Celtic charm, it is filled with nostalgic reminiscences about growing up in rural Ireland in the 1950s and 60s, ...Show more
Darling Monster - The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952 by Diana Cooper; John Julius Norwich (ed.)
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
'Please, darling monster, write as often as you can. It's so sad waiting for letters that don't come and are not even written. I love my darling boy. Don't treat me so badly again or I'll have your lights and liver when I get home.' 19 November 1939 Lady Diana Cooper was an aristocrat, society darling, ...Show more
Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend by Peter FitzSimons
$59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, the young Ned started his criminal career at 14 and was jailed for three years at 16 for a run-in with a policeman for stealing a horse. In 1890, Ned Kelly was hanged at 25 in the Melbourne Gaol, two years after the shooting of three policemen and the spate o ...Show more
Brave Girl Eating: The Inspirational True Story of One Family's Battle with Anorexia by Harriet Brown
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the f ...Show more
Sir Edmund Hillary: An Extraordinary Life by Alexa Johnston
$24.99 NZD
$50.00 (50% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
60 years ago New Zealand's greatest adventurer Edmund Hillary made world history with his ascent of Mt Everest. This intimate and inspiring book tells the full story of Sir Edmund Hillary's extraordinary life, from his expeditions to remote corners of the world to his humanitarian activities serving the ...Show more
I Can See Clearly Now by Wayne W. Dyer
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
For many years, Wayne W. Dyer's fans have wondered when he would write a memoir. Well, after four decades as a teacher of self-empowerment and the best-selling author of more than 40 books, Wayne has finally done just that! However, he has written it in a way that only he can - with a remarkable take-ho ...Show more