Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen; Karen Blixen
$7.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.' In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written, Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century, and the love affair that changed her life. A new series of twenty distincti ...Show more
Augustus - The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt
$15.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet ...Show more
I am Brian Wilson - The Genius Behind the Beach Boys by Brian Wilson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
'My life has been written about over and over again, and that's mostly okay with me. Other people can talk about my life. Sometimes they'll get it right and sometimes they'll get it wrong. For me, when I think back across my own life, there are so many things that are painful. Sometimes I don't like dis ...Show more
The Flying Scotsman by Graeme Obree
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This is the amazing story of the cyclist who took on the world and rewrote the record books, a story that is soon to be made into a major feature film starring Johnny Lee Miller and directed by Peter Broughan, director of Rob Roy. On the way to breaking the World hour record, he created major controvers ...Show more
A Crime in the Family by Sacha Batthyany
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World War In the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batt ...Show more
Fidel and Che - A Revolutionary Friendship by Simon Reid-Henry
$25.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The first dual biography of the most remarkable political friendship of the twentieth century.
Poppy by Drusilla Modjeska
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
In this award-winning book, Drusilla Modjeska sets out to collect the evidence of her mother's life. But when the facts refuse to give up their secrets, she follows the thread of history and memory into imagination. There she teases out the story of Poppy, who married at twenty and sang to her children, ...Show more
Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie
$10.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: good
The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South C ...Show more
Mr Nice and Mrs Marks - Adventures with Howard by Judy Marks
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
The 'Bonnie & Clyde' adventures of the world's most notorious dope smugglers! Howard Marks' story has passed into hippie folklore. At one time, the world's then most wanted man had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines and 25 registered companies. Thanks to the technical brilliance of his networking skill ...Show more
Resilience by Anne Deveson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
What is it that enables some people to grow through adversity? Anne Deveson's engaging and thought-provoking exploration of this vital capacity of individuals and communities is, like her award-winning classic Tell Me I'm Here, a powerful combination of intellectual journey and personal memoir.
Tolstoy by A N. Wilson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Classic Biography | Reading Level: very good
Leo Tolstoy(1828-1910) was born into one of the grand old families of Imperial Russia. This biography covers all aspects of his life, and shows it to have been as colourful as any of his own works of fiction.
Corsica Boswell - Paoli, Johnson and Freedom by Moray McLaren
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good