The Sun Is High by Rita F. Snowden
$20.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
An autobiography of Rita F. Snowden
The Test: My Autobiography by Brian O'Driscoll
$12.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
This is the bestselling autobiography of the greatest rugby player of our time: Brian O'Driscoll. Since 1999, when he made his international debut, there has been no greater player in world rugby than Brian O'Driscoll. In 2010 Rugby World magazine named him its world player of the decade - and since the ...Show more
Thomas Bewick: My Life by Thomas Bewick
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. Edited and with an introduction by Iain Bain with numerous wood-engravings and watercolours by the author.
Thomas Jefferson - An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Here for the first time we meet Jefferson as a man of feeling and passion. With a novelist's skill and meticulous scholarship, Fawn M. Brodie shows Jefferson as he wrestled with issues of revolution, religion, power, race, and love-ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his politic ...Show more
Thurgood Marshall - American Revolutionary by Juan Williams
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK . The definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice, from the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize"Magisterial . . . in Williams' richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel."-Jack E. White, TimeThurgood Marshall was the t ...Show more
Tony Blair: A Journey by Tony Blair
$18.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime ministers have shaped the nation's course as profoundly as Blair during his ten year ...Show more
Trinity - The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
$32.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
'Trinity' was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. This exceptional book - Trinity - tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, ...Show more
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman
$28.00 NZD
$56.00 (50% off)
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture—at a steep personal cost. "A biography that reads like a thriller or a whodunit . . . scrupulously honest, deeply damning, and sometimes even heartbreaking."—Neil Gaiman Stan ...Show more
Tutu: The Authorised Portrait by Allister Sparks & Desmond Tutu
$21.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
TUTU: THE AUTHORISED PORTRAIT is a celebration of eighty years of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an icon whose humanity and compassion has touched the lives of millions. Born in South Africa's Transvaal and trained as a teacher because his family couldn't afford to send him to medical school, Desmond Tutu was ...Show more
Tà's Red Book - The Life of Wanda Ferragamo by Ginevra Visconti (Contribution by)
$72.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Wanda Ferragamo's life is an opportunity to analyze the role of a woman at the head of an important entrepreneurial business during the economic boom. This volume is being published on the occasion of the exhibition Women in Balance at the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence. Wanda Miletti Ferragamo ...Show more
Viva Malvina! The Lives of Dame Malvina Major by Joy Tonks
$18.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In this book Dame Malvina Major talks openly about her life, her dreams, the disappointments, and the tremendous spirit that has kept her singing for almost sixty years. She relates fascinating aspects of the performing life, and behind-the-scene stories reveal her humanity and humour. As a child, daugh ...Show more