Rod Laver: A Memoir by Rod Laver
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Rod Laver's memoir is the inspiring story of how a diminutive, left-handed, red-headed country boy from Rockhampton became one of Australia's greatest every sporting champions. Rod was a dominant force in world tennis for almost two decades, playing and defeating some of the greatest players of the twen ...Show more
Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Michael Blanding
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Once considered a respectable rare-map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley made millions and was highly esteemed for his knowledge; until he was arrested for slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. Though pieces of the story have been told before, Blanding is the first reporter to gain access to ...Show more
Sinatra: Behind the Legend by J. Randy Taraborrelli
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Frank Sinatra was one of the most influential entertainers the world had ever seen. He was also one of the most complex - generous, a loyal friend, a champion of causes, a devoted son and father, unpredictable, a loud-mouthed tough guy and a womaniser. What drove the skinny kid with a voice and a dream ...Show more
How Bizarre - Pauly Fuemana and the Song That Stormed the World by Simon Grigg
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
Pauly Fuemana of the group Ōtara Millionaires Club (OMC) was the charismatic singer and creator, with producer Alan Jansson, of the hit record How Bizarre. After the record's release in 1995 it stormed to number one in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and European countries and Fuemana appeared twice on B ...Show more
Eat First, Talk Later by Beth Yahp
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A dazzling memoir from a talented Malaysian writer about family and home, and a searing portrait of the country of her birth. In this riveting memoir Beth persuades her ageing parents on a road trip around their former home, Malaysia. She intends to retrace their honeymoon of 45 years before, but their ...Show more
George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce opponent of nationalism who defined En ...Show more
Girl in the Woods - A Memoir by Aspen Matis
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents who d ...Show more
Hiltons: The True Story of an American Dynasty by J. Randy Taraborrelli
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
THE HILTONS is a sweeping saga of the success - and excess - of an iconic American family. Demanding and enigmatic, patriarch Conrad Hilton's visionary ideas and unyielding will established the model for the modern luxury hotel industry. But outside the boardroom, Conrad struggled with emotional detachm ...Show more
Taking Command by General Sir David Richards
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013 he retired after over forty years of service in the British Army and a career that had seen him rise from junior officer with 20 Commando to Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Arme ...Show more
Underneath the Lemon Tree: A Memoir of Depression and Recovery by Mark Rice-Oxley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife, children, fulfilling job. But then, at his 40th birthday party, his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to depression...How many men do you know who have been through periods when their lives haven't seemed right? How badly askew were things for t ...Show more
Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott by Gavin Stamp
$69.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
George Gilbert Scott was the most prolific and most famous of Victorian architects. For many, however, blinded by prejudice to the merits of Victorian architecture and the Gothic Revival, he was the most notorious. The rehabilitation of his reputation after a century of abuse is symbolised, above all, b ...Show more
Cooler King, the: The True Story of William Ash - Spitfire Pilot, P.O.W and Wwii's Greatest Escaper by Patrick Bishop
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash, an American flier brought up in Depression-hit Texas, who after being shot down in his Spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of the war defying the Nazis by striving to escape from every prisoner of war camp in which he was incarce ...Show more