Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story by Mary Trevelyan
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A lost story of unrequited love, Mary and Mr Eliot draws back the curtains to provide not only an intimate new portrait of T. S. Eliot but also one of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history, bringing their remarkable relationship to life for the first time.
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa by Joseph Farrell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint's tre ...Show more
About a Girl: A Mother's Powerful Story of Raising her Transgender Child by Rebekah Robertson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Transgender | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 2000, Rebekah Robertson gave birth to twin boys, George and Harry. But as they grew older, their preferences began to show, and by the age of three it was clear Georgie was drawn to anything that was pretty or had a skirt that could swirl. Before long Georgie began to insist that she was a girl and b ...Show more
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel by Benjamin Wardhaugh
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Cramped, dust-choked, wielding a five-pound pick by candle ...Show more
MBS The Rise to Power of Mohammad Bin Salman by Ben Hubbard
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The gripping, untold story of how Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler rose to power. Even in his youth as a prince among thousands of princes, Mohammed bin Salman nurtured sweeping ambitions. He wanted power - enough of it to reshape his hyper-conservative, insular Islamic kingdom. When his ...Show more
Niki Lauda: The Biography by Maurice Hamilton
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The most comprehensive and detailed biography of Formula One legend Nick Lauda ever published, as told by Maurice Hamilton, who knew him for more than forty years. From the famous rivalry with James Hunt in the 1970s, as depicted in the film Rush, to working with Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, Lauda's care ...Show more
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st Century Memoir by Madeleine Albright
$69.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright--one of the world's most admired and tireless public servants--reflects on the final stages of one's career, and working productively into your later decades in this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir.In 2001 ...Show more
Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good by Aminata Conteh-Biger
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Rising Heart will never leave you; searing, powerful, disturbing, hopeful.' The Honourable Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO The astonishing tale of a woman determined to turn her trauma into the power for good in the world. In 1999, Sierra Leone teenager Aminata Conteh-Biger was kidnapped from her father's ar ...Show more
Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter by Lucy O'Brien
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A pioneering biography re-evaluating the life and legacy of transcendent musician Karen Carpenter.When the Carpenters first toured Japan, a journalist mistakenly referred to Karen as the 'lead sister' of the band. This designation stuck and Karen liked it so much that she had a T-shirt custom-made with ...Show more
Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and a Family in Tumult by Robert Lacey
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The world has watched Prince William and Prince Harry since they were born. Raised by Princess Diana to be the closest of brothers, how have the boy princes grown into very different, now distanced men? From royal expert and bestselling author Robert Lacey, this book is an unparalleled insider account ...Show more
Those in Peril: A Blue Funnel Story : a Fifty-six-year Love Affair with Ships by Ian Cook
$39.99 NZD
$65.00 (38% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This story covers fifty eight years of maritime history, from the last six months of the second world war until the year 2002. In December 1944, a young Scot began a seagoing career with one of Britain's oldest shipping companies, Alfred Holt &. Company, the Blue Funnel Line of Liverpool, which took ...Show more
King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling. He loved conversat ...Show more