Sir Peter Blake - An amazing life by Alan Sefton
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
The late Sir Peter Blake is known to all New Zealanders as the world?s most celebrated and honoured yachtsmen/adventurer, the man who seized the America?s Cup. In recent years, of course, Blake turned away from international yachting to embark on a plan with the yacht Seamaster to draw attention to thre ...Show more
Sir Edmund Hillary : An Extraordinary Life - The Authorised, Illustrated Biography by Alexa Johnston
59.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Around the world Sir Edmund Hillary is a legendary figure - climber, bold adventurer, practical philanthropist and one of the most widely respected persons of our time. He has survived extremes of human experience - from historic triumphs to crushing personal loss ? but he sees himself as an ordinary ma ...Show more
The Magician's Son: A Search for Identity: The Story of a Boy Taken from His Family and Then Told They Never Existed by Sandy McCutcheon
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Sandy McCutcheon, one of Australia's most popular national broadcasters, was adopted into a respectable, well-off family, but it was one in which he never felt at home. His yearning for acceptance was matched by an instinct to rebel, and by frustration with his parents' refusal to acknowledge his adop ...Show more
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
35.00 NZD
41.00 (14% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
Learning to Dance : Elizabeth Jolley - Her Life and Work by Elizabeth Jolley
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Mr. Paparazzi by Darryn Lyons
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Darryn Lyons is the self-made millionaire behind the international cult of celebrity photography. In this fascinating expos
Brocky: Peter's Own Story by David Hassall
92.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Peter Brock was tragically killed in 2006, the outpouring of grief from around Australia revealed how this charismatic hero had touched the nation like few other sporting champions. He transcended his own sport through his movie star looks and the power of his personality, but it was on great race ...Show more
Only Two Seats Left : The Incredible Contiki Story by John Anderson
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In 1962 a young New Zealander left home for a one year trip to Europe. He returned some 20 years later with a wife, four children and the internationally renowned tour company - Contiki Holidays.Written by the founder of Contiki, Only Two Seats Left is the incredible story of how a simple idea with a ...Show more
Chopper from the inside (Chopper #1) by Mark Brandon Read
25.50 NZD
33.95 (24% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Chopper
Mark Brandon Read is the son of a strict Seventh Day Adventist mother and a war stressed soldier who slept with a loaded gun at his side. Bullied at school, he grew up dreaming of revenge, determined to be the toughest in any company. He became a crime commando who terrorised drug dealers, pimps, thieve ...Show more
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Teen idol at fifteen, international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrele ...Show more
Woman I Was Born To Be by Susan Boyle
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The extraordinary personal story of the Scottish woman who became a global superstar overnight One year ago, a modest middle-aged woman from a village in Scotland was catapulted to global fame when the YouTube video of her audition for Britain’s Got Talent touched the hearts of millions all over the wor ...Show more