1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows - A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
$55.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Hailed as 'the most important artist work ...Show more
A Baker's Tale: The Life and Times of Ernest Adams by Hugh Adams
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
For much of the last century the names 'Adams Bruce' and 'Ernest Adams' were familiar indeed to lovers of rich cakes and sponges. These firms shared a common origin, had bakeries in all the main centres and sponge kitchens in the smaller centres. Their bright red and white delivery vans were nearly alwa ...Show more
A Hero for Our Times by Ralph G. Martin
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The National Bestseller, the portrait of one of the best loved and most hated presidents in American history, whose appetites for power and sex were equally consuming, and who is more controversial in death than he ever was alive.
A Month at the Back of My Brain - A third memoir by Kevin Ireland
$45.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
As he enters his 90th year on the planet, Kevin Ireland describes his third memoir as a process of "sweeping up all the reflective wrappers and the tinsel, and describing how, in the setting sun, they glitter with the brilliant romance of nostalgia." Unlike his earlier two memoirs, one of which won a Na ...Show more
A Portion of the Journal Kept by T. Raikes Esq. Vol. I-IV by Thomas Raikes
$300.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$70.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Adolph Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, published in 1971, is the first volume of Spike Milligan's war memoirs. The book spans the period from Britain's declaration of war on Germany to when Milligan lands in Algeria as a part of the Allied liberation of Africa.
Amelia Earhart - The Mystery Solved by Elgen M. Long; Marie K. Long
$19.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
- The final answer on Amelia Earhart: Amelia Earhart puts to rest the speculation and rumors surrounding Earhart's disappearance. The Longs prove that she was pushing the limits of technology and simply pushed too far. With the primitive conditions Earhart was flying under--no radar, unreliable communic ...Show more
An Affair with Africa - Expeditions and Adventures Across a Continent by Alzada Carlisle Kistner
$22.50 NZD
Category: Travel
In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their 18-month old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was grippe ...Show more
An Unfinished Life - John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Nationally best-selling author Robert Dallek is one of the most respected historians in America. He has won the American Book Award and the Bancroft Prize for his excellent biographies of U.S. presidents. In An Unfinished Life, Dallek offers the first authoritative, single-volume story of the life of Jo ...Show more
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman
$40.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir 'Masterful, captivating, page-turning, this is solid gold history at its best.' - Nicola Tallis '(A) thought-provoking, impeccably researched, and moving account uncovering how Anne's family, intel ...Show more