Around the World in 80 Years by Ranulph Fiennes
40.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
He's climbed Everest not long after a heart bypass operation, he's run seven marathons on seven continents, he's hauled loaded sledges across both polar ice caps and he's circumnavigated the earth...Ran Fiennes truly is the world's greatest explorer, and this book celebrates his 80th birthday by showcas ...Show more
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives by Matt Morgan
39.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? he thought to hims ...Show more
Murray Ball: A Cartoonist's Life by Mason Ball
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
The first biography of iconic cartoonist Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats Let me show you how my dad became a leading cartoonist of his generation, how his endearing characters evolved and where the side-splitting ideas sprang from. Let's see the man behind the drawing desk and delve into the wor ...Show more
The Stirrings by Catherine Taylor
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: the North of England in the 1970s and 80s. About the scorching summer of 1976 - the last Catherine Taylor would spend with both her parents in their home in Sheffield. About the Yorkshire Ripper, the ser ...Show more
Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes
40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self Help/Philosophy
Join us on another unforgettable adventure through the extraordinary life and strong opinions of Miriam Margolyes. 'My new book is called Oh Miriam! - something that has been said to me a lot over the years, often in tones of strong disapproval. It contains lots more revelations and stories and discove ...Show more
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN. His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even o ...Show more
Lawrence of Arabia by Ranulph Fiennes
42.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
An enthralling and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the inspiration for the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes Co-opted by the British military, archaeologist and adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence became involved in the 1916 Arab Revol ...Show more
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin
40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug." This is ...Show more
Astor: The Rise And Fall Of An American Fortune by Anderson Cooper
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvent ...Show more
Rambling Man - My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
55.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Father Anselm Novels Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
In my fantasy of the Rambling Man who is something of a hobo, walking - or maybe jumping into the car of a moving train - is what he does. He slings his guitar or banjo over his shoulder and strides out along the road to the next town. There he plays a few songs at a local gig and meets a beautiful woma ...Show more