Soros: Life & Timesof a Messianic by Michael T. Kaufman
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in ...Show more
The First Tycoon by T.J. Stiles
86.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island durin ...Show more
Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize The south of Chile was a frontier wilderness when Pablo Neruda was born in 1904. In these memoirs he retraces his bohemian student years in Santiago; his sojourns as Chilea ...Show more
Nexus Confessions
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Swinging, dogging, group sex, cross-dressing, spanking, female domination, corporal punishment, and extreme fetishes..."Nexus Confessions" explores the length and breadth of erotic obsession, real experience and sexual fantasy. This is an encyclopaedic collection of the bizarre, the extreme, the utterly ...Show more
Straight on Till Morning by Mary Lovell
34.99 NZD
37.99 (7% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Beryl Markham, like Karen Blixen, could only have come out of Africa. Pioneering aviatrix, flamboyant beauty, brilliant race-horse trainer, unscrupulous seducer ? her life story is for every reader who was enthralled by Blixen's exotic world, that of Kenya between the wars. This fully authorised biograp ...Show more
Amelia Earhart: The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
When she disappeared in 1937 over a shark-infested sea, Amelia Earhart had lived up to her wish - internationally famous, a daring and pioneering aviator, and ambassador extraordinary for the United States. Married to a man with a genius for publicity, her life was crowded, demanding and adventurous. Ma ...Show more
C.S. Lewis : the Boy Who Chronicled Narnia - A Biography by Michael White
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1997, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE was voted the most influential book of the twentieth century by teachers, librarians and parents in the UK. The last six US Presidents have all claimed C. S. Lewis to be one of their favourite writers (as have Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair). He was an acc ...Show more
When I Grow Up by Bernice Rubens
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In a rare foray outside that natural home, Booker Prize-winner Bernice Rubens penned these memoirs 'while I still have a memory'. Poignantly, the highly-acclaimed author, literary bon-vivante and celebrated film-maker died shortly after completing them. She wasn't quite expecting that but nor, as she re ...Show more
The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In his last book, YOGA FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO DO IT, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he did not own a camera. With characteristic perversity - and trademark originality - THE ONGOING MOMENT is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic ...Show more
Nab End and Beyond: An Extraordinary Northern Childhood - The Road to Nab End and Beyond Nab End by William Woodruff
35.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn - a treat was sh ...Show more
Graham Greene: A Life In Letters by Richard Greene
33.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
One of the undisputed masters of English prose in the twentieth century, Graham Greene (1904-91) wrote tens of thousands of personal letters. This substantial volume presents a new and engrossing account of his life constructed out of his own words. Meticulously chosen and engagingly annotated, this sel ...Show more