Letters to my Grandchildren by David Suzuki
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In this inspiring series of letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki offers grandfatherly advice mixed with stories from his own remarkable life and explores what makes life meaningful. He challenges his grandchildren - and us - to do everything at full tilt. He explains why sports, fishing, feminism, ...Show more
A Handful of Happiness by Massimo Vacchetta; Jamie Richards (Translator); Antonella Tomaselli (Contribution by)
28.00 NZD
Category: Animals
The heart-warming story of how a tiny hedgehog helped one man find hope. 'Could you look after it for a couple of days? . . .' So begins the extraordinary friendship between veterinarian Massimo, who is at a low spot in his life, and a tiny, orphaned hedgehog. Only a few days old, covered with soft, whi ...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
Life Lessons from Explorers - Learning from the World's Greatest Adventurers by Felicity Aston; Welbeck Publishing
33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Great explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable lessons are waiting to be learned from the feats attained by the most revered names in exploration - from legendary adventurers such as Christoph ...Show more
With These Hands by Pam Ayres
26.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'Pam Ayres is absolutely essential to British humour' Mail on Sunday 'A national treasure' Daily Express With These Hands is the classic collection of witty monologues and poems from Pam's early life in the 1950s, through four years in the WRAF, and marriage and motherhood, to her busy career as a write ...Show more
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level by Leander Kahney
26.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task - following in the footsteps of one of history's greatest business visionaries, Steve Jobs. Facing worldwide scrutiny, Cook (who was often described as shy, unassuming and unimaginative) defied all expectations. Under Cook's leadership Apple has soared- its s ...Show more
Parisian Lives - Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir by Deirdre Bair
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written - or even read - a biography herself. The next seven years of intimate conversations, in ...Show more
Art of Bob Mackie by Frank Vlastnik
99.00 NZD
Category: Fashion/Costume
The first-ever, comprehensive and authorized showcase of legendary fashion designer Bob Mackie's fabulous life and work, featuring hundreds of photos and dozens of never-before-seen sketches from his personal collection. Cher, Carol Burnett, Bette Midler, P!nk, Tina Turner, Elton John, Liza Minnelli, A ...Show more
The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling.After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman ...Show more
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Longlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Do No Harm ranks alongside the work of Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and Oliver Sacks.With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving t ...Show more
Tea and Scotch with Bradman by Roland Perry
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The Don bounced upstairs, past alcoves displaying trophies and his favourite portrait of himself executing a cover drive, and into the inner sanctum - the small Bradman study ... In 1995, journalist and author Roland Perry wrote to Sir Donald Bradman requesting a face-to-face interview for a biography ...Show more
Tall Tales and Wee Stories - The Best of Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday Times In December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinar ...Show more