Those in Peril: A Blue Funnel Story : a Fifty-six-year Love Affair with Ships by Ian Cook
$39.99 NZD
$65.00 (38% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This story covers fifty eight years of maritime history, from the last six months of the second world war until the year 2002. In December 1944, a young Scot began a seagoing career with one of Britain's oldest shipping companies, Alfred Holt &. Company, the Blue Funnel Line of Liverpool, which took ...Show more
Can't is Not in My Vocabulary by Bert ten Broeke
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Born in 1924 in a Dutch border town with Germany, the son of the local butcher, Bert ten Broeke experienced the invading German army at the age of 15. After the war his physical fitness led him to develop his athletic prowess, winning medals, but Holland's then improverished circumstances caused him to ...Show more
A Life of Contrasts by Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An autobiography of Diana Mitford describing how it came about that both Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler adored her, and Evelyn Waugh and Oswald Mosley fell in love with her.
Hero: The Life & Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
$75.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Michael Korda's Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale, a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile - including his sun-burnished blonde looks and flowing white robes - made him an object of ...Show more
Flory: One Woman's Account of Surviving the Holocaust by Flory van Beek
$35.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This incredible true story of survival poignantly illustrates how even in the darkest times good people are willing to risk their own safety to save the lives of others.
Purple Dandelion: A Muslim Woman's Struggle Against Violence and Oppression by Farida Sultana & Shila Nair
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Purple Dandelion is the true story of Farida Sultana, an extraordinary Muslim woman and single mother. The book is a reflection of her personal journey as an unconventional child who struggled through her adulthood and married life. Being a survivor of violence and abuse, Farida emerged as a strong advo ...Show more
Mary MacKillop - a Window of Hope by Monica Cavanagh
$17.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Wilkinson Publishing
Mother Mary MacKillop will be canonised a Saint in October 2010 by the Pope at a ceremony in Rome and watched around the world. This is an official book from the Sisters of St Joseph, Mary MacKillop's religious order. It shows how today in confusing times 'a good life' is still possible, and can come wi ...Show more
Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
FATE IS THE HUNTER is a fascinating and thrilling account of some of the more memorable experiences Ernest K Gann had in the air. He's flown in both peace and war and come close to death many times. Here he reveals the characters he's known and the dramas he's experienced, portraying fate (or death) as ...Show more
Marching with the Devil: Legends, Glory and Lies in the French Foreign Legion by David Mason
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'In 1894 a French Foreign Legion General said, Legionnaires, vous etes faits pour mourir, je vous envoie la ou on meurt. Legionnaires, you are made for dying, I will send you where you can die. When I was in my mid-teens and first read those words they were powerful and confronting. I read them as a cha ...Show more
Midwife on Call by Agnes Light
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Agnes Light trained as a nurse in the 1960s and went on to become a midwife - helping to bring new lives into the world for over thirty years. After fainting from shock at the first birth she attended as a student, Agnes grew to adore her job and the lifelong friends that worked with her on the maternit ...Show more
The Necessary Aptitude : A Memoir by Pam Ayres
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Author Tour 1 - 6 November 2011. An eagerly-awaited country childhood memoir by one of Britain's most-loved personalities. Pam Ayres is one of Britain's best-loved personalities. She appears regularly on TV and radio, and has her own Radio 4 programme Ayres on the Air. She performs her solo stage show ...Show more
Saving Private Sarbi: The True Story of Australia's Canine War Hero by Sandra Lee
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Saving Private Sarbi is the dramatic and heart-warming true story of a scruffy black Labrador-cross trained by the Australian Army as an explosives detection dog for the most dangerous combat mission imaginable. This canine warrior went missing in action following a historic battle between the elite SAS ...Show more