Mary : Princess of Style by Jim Korner & Jim Lyngvild
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a beautifully illustrative record of Mary's journey from Tasmanian girl to the future queen of Denmark and international style icon, with special focus on her approach to fashion.
The Lucy Family Alphabet by Judith Lucy
29.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Lucy has always used stories about her extraordinary family as material for her one woman shows. Her mother was afraid of water and shampoo, ate only cream-cheese and raspberry cordial and refused to let Judith go swimming or turn off any appliances. Her father wore makeup, loved car crashes and pretend ...Show more
An Exacting Heart : The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin by Jacqueline Kent
55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Like her famous brother Yehudi, Hephzibah Menuhin (1920-1981) was a child prodigy. But Hephzibah was the younger, and expected to be wife and mother. She escapes the controlling family, abandons her music, then also her new family in Melbourne, to eventually live in London. This is the story of an intel ...Show more
A Life Less Ordinary by Baby Halder
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the story of Baby Halder, a woman who overcame poverty, violence and a meagre education to write a book that would become an overnight literary sensation in India. Born in West Bengal, Baby is abandoned by her mother at the age of four, married at twelve to a violent man, and a mother herself at ...Show more
Roderick Deane : His Life and Times by Michael & Judith Bassett
49.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Roderick Deane is one of the most important figures in recent economic and political history. The New Zealand Herald once called him 'the godfather of New Zealand commerce'. In the past twenty years perhaps only Roger Douglas has played a bigger role in shaping the New Zealand economy. As Deputy Governo ...Show more
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