Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel by Jason Padgett
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Jason Padgett was an ordinary, not terribly bright, 41-year-old working in his father's furniture shop when he was the victim of a brutal mugging outside a karaoke bar in 2002. That same night his stepfather died of cancer, and two weeks later his only brother went missing (his body was discovered three ...Show more
One Leg Too Few by William Cook
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
One Leg Too Few will feature an extensive range of fresh interviews, previously unpublished archive material and a wealth of information about the most creative (and explosive) double act that British comedy has ever produced. One Leg Too Few is a book about an extraordinary relationship: a friendship, ...Show more
The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis by Wes Davis
$54.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the bleakest years of the Second World War when it appeared that nothing could slow the advance of the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging ground for domination of the Middle East. But German command had not counted on the strength of the Cretan ...Show more
Extreme Survivors: 60 of the World's Most Extreme Survival Stories by Bear Grylls
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The story of 60 of the most astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour. Now available as a small paperback the short stories make it perfect for the work commute or summer holiday. The statistics, descriptions, and illustrative maps fully describe of 60 of the world's greatest survival stories ...Show more
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Everything written about Armstong's life and flights has been from the outside looking in; Jay Barbree is the only person whom Neil Armstrong trusted to share close personal details about his inspiring life story. Working from his years of notes, and with the Armstrong family, Jay Barbree has written th ...Show more
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
Will to Live by Matthew Ames
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Matthew Ames, 39-year-old father of four, thought he had a bout of man flu. Very quickly, a seemingly ordinary illness became a severe case of toxic shock syndrome. The common bacteria Streptococcus A had entered his bloodstream and his body had gone into shutdown. The only way Matthew could be kept ali ...Show more
David Jason My Life by David Jason
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The long-awaited autobiography of one of Britainâe(tm)s best-loved actors, and the star of Only Fools and Horses. 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 ...Show more
Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran by Jennifer Klinec
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn't be, therefore, that their Iranian son could feel desire for someone six years his senior, someone who didn't come to him pur ...Show more
Where is Daniel? by Bruce Morcombe
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
On 7 December 2003 Daniel Morcombe disappeared on the Sunshine Coast, while waiting for a bus. For Bruce and Denise Morcombe - the parents of Daniel - and his brothers, Bradley and Dean, it was apparent within hours that something was very wrong. In the first few days following Daniel's disappearance, B ...Show more
Bear Grylls: Two All-Action Adventures by Bear Grylls
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Bear Grylls is one of the world's most famous survivors. Bear Grylls: Two All-Action Adventures combines two of his greatest adventures told in Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean. At the age of twenty-three, Bear Grylls became one of the youngest Britons to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At extre ...Show more
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins
$44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe.Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels--including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home From Ho ...Show more