The Suicide Club: A Virgin Tea Planter's Journey by Herman Gunaratne
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
The true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy who, plucked unsuspectingly at the age of ten from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer, turned the situation to his advantage to become one of the world's greatest ballet stars. Li tells his story with charm and simplicity, wit ...Show more
Charles Darwin: Voyaging by Janet Browne
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin. Many books have been devoted to various aspects of his theories, his personality, even his inexplicable ill-health. Now in this truly magisterial biography, Janet Browne brings Darwin to us whole. With ...Show more
Eric Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton
$14.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
Eric Clapton is far more than a rock star. Like Dylan and McCartney he is an icon and a living legend. He has sold tens of millions of records, played sell-out concerts all over the world and been central to every significant musical development of his era. His guitar playing has seen him hailed as 'God ...Show more
The Journals and Letters of Sir Alexander Mackenzie by W. Kaye Lamb (ed.)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years by Margaret Mead
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Marlon Brando by Patricia Bosworth
$10.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Lives | Reading Level: very good
Swiss Hotel Pioneers by L. Gaulis and R. Creux
$18.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Malinche's Conquest by Anna Lanyon
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
An engrossing and evocative quest into Mexico's past, to uncover the story of the legendary Amerindian woman who became translator and concubine to Cortes in the Spanish Conquest. 'Lanyon has spent more than a decade pursing this elusive woman, Malinche---in archives, in churches, in forgotten corners o ...Show more
Mayhem: A Memoir by Sigrid Rausing
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'Now that it's all over I find myself thinking about family history and family memories; the stories that hold a family together, and the acts that can split it apart . . . ' In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The ...Show more
Home Work - A Memoir of My Years in Hollywood by Julie Andrews
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Home, the enchanting Julie Andrews picks up her story with her arrival in Hollywood, sharing the career highlights, personal experiences and reflections behind her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound ...Show more
Letters of Marcilio Ficino Volume 1 by Marsilio Ficino
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
The problems which troubled people's minds during the Italian Renaissance were much the same as today. In trying to cope with them, many deep thinking people turned to Marsilio Ficino for help. Through his letters he advised, encouraged, and occasionally reproved them. Fearlessly he expressed the truth ...Show more