Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work by Kitty Ferguson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given a couple of years to live. In January 2017 he celebrates his seventy-fifth birthday. This biography of the brilliant theoretical physicist and inspirational international celebrity, written with the help of Hawking himself and his close associates, now includes: his lea ...Show more
Rescue Pilot: Cheating the Sea by Jerry Grayson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot to ever serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. For the Navy's Search and Rescue pilots, getting to work is both an adventure and a ...Show more
Film Pilot by Jerry Grayson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Jerry Grayson left the Royal Navy's Search and Rescue helicopter fleet aged 25, he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. In terms of excitement, however, civilian life lacked spice - especially when the only real demand for helicopter pilots was as glorified chauffeurs for the ve ...Show more
Gone: A Girl, A Violin, A Life Unstrung by Min Kym
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off -- and who discovers, beyond the violin, the music of her own voice Her first violin was tiny, harsh, factory-made; her first piece was "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star." But from the very b ...Show more
No Place to Lay One's Head: With a Preface from Patrick Modiano by Francoise Frenkel
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A bitter, beautiful and important bookRobert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENTThe French sensation, now in English translation.Fran oise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving ...Show more
Shepherd of Another Flock by David Wilbourne
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Shh, new vicar might be listening ...' As the newly appointed Vicar of Helmsley, David was looking forward to working in this picturesque market town, set in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside. Admittedly the vicarage, which dated back to the twelfth century, was extremely cold and damp. And not all o ...Show more
For a Girl: A True Story of Secrets, Motherhood and Hope by Mary-Rose MacColl
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
I am by nature a private person. Secrets are different from privacy. They are things you are forced to keep to yourself, by family, friends, by your own shame. Secrets like these come to the surface one day and demand an airing. Emerging from an unconventional, boisterously happy childhood, Mary-Rose Ma ...Show more
One Italian Summer by Pip Williams
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food, and spend more time with the people they love. But jobs and responsibilities got in the way: their chooks died, their fruit rotted, and Pip ended up depressed and in therapy. So they did the only reasonable t ...Show more
Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A New York Times Editor's Pick "It is a blunt observation, reflective of the potent message she delivers to her readers, a skillful unraveling of the myth of the submissive Muslim woman and a timely introduction to those other, very American and largely unheard 9/11 kids who bear the destructive bur ...Show more
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 by Nicholas Reynolds
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: General Adult
A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum unveils the shocking, untold story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway s secret life as a spy for both the Americans and the Soviets before and during World War II.While he was the curator of the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime mili ...Show more
Guy Martin: My Autobiography by Guy Martin
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This book is the Phenomenal Sunday Times No1 Bestseller. 'It was the start of the third lap of the 2010 Senior TT, the last race of the fortnight. The last chance to get a TT win for another year, and I was pushing hard. Ballagarey. The kind of corner that makes me continue road racing. A proper man's c ...Show more
Theft by Finding: Diaries Vol 1 by David Sedaris
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting interminably in a coffee-bar queue' Brian Logan, Guardian review of An Evening with David Sedaris. The point is to find out who you are and to be true to th ...Show more