Napoleon - His Wives and Women by Christopher Hibbert
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Dear Dad by Samuel Johnson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
From the team who gave you the bestselling DEAR SANTA comes an honest, moving, emotionally memorable collection of letters to their fathers from some of Australia's most notorious grown-ups. The perfect gift for the dad or dad figure in your life! If you could tell your dad anything, what would it be? S ...Show more
Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything by Jane Hawking
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Made into a major motion picture, this moving memoir written by Stephen Hawking's first wife covers the turbulent years of her marriage to the astrophysics genius, her traumatic divorce, and their recent reconciliation Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and remarkable scientists of ou ...Show more
Diary of Girl in Changi 1941-1945 by Sheila Allan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
DIARY OF A GIRL IN CHANGI is the moving personal account of a young girl living in the midst of hardship and adversity. Written on scraps of paper which were kept hidden in her quarters, Sheila Allan's diary is a record of the daily lives of those interned in Changi. On the one hand, these were years of ...Show more
The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Mo ...Show more
Handling Edna by Barry Humphries
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
<p>In this unauthorised biography, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy, long-time manager and the man who was there from the very beginning, Barry Humphries takes a behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look at an icon of our times Dame Edna Everage. Superstar, swami, con ...Show more
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor.Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. I ...Show more
The Exiled Collector: William Bankes and the Making of an English Country House by Anne Sebba
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
On August 30th 1841 William John Bankes, former Tory MP, pioneer Egyptologist and renowned traveller, was caught in compromising circumstances with a guardsman in London's Green Park. Faced with the death penalty, he fled to exile in Venice, leaving forever his beloved house, Kingston Lacy in Dorset. It ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Ame ...Show more
Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon by Lesley Adkins
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Exploration, decipherment and heroism in the name of learning, from the author of The Keys of Egypt.At Behistun, in the Zagros mountains of what is now western Iran, rises a vertical cliff face covered with a huge cuneiform inscription set up in 520 BC to record the exploits of the Persian king Darius t ...Show more
Savage - The Life and Times of Jemmy Button by Nick Hazlewood
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
A tale of tragedy, catastrophe, and the triumph of the human spirit.In 1830 a Yamana Indian boy, Orundellico, was bought from his uncle in Tierra del Fuego for the price of a mother-of-pearl button. Renamed Jemmy Button, he was removed from his primitive nomadic existence, where life revolved around the ...Show more