Scottish Samurai: Thomas Blake Glover, 1838-1911 by Alexander McKay
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Thomas Glover arrived in Nagasaki in 1859, just as Japan was opening to the West. Within a few years he had played a crucial part in the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate, providing the rebels with war-winning, Scottish-designedwarships, and modern arms. Bankruptcy by the age of thirty was barely a se ...Show more
Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras by Tom Service
$49.99 NZD
Category: Music
How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated musicians and music-lovers for centuries, from Toscanini to Karajan, from Carlos Kleiber to Gustavo Dudam ...Show more
Shrapnel by William Wharton
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
A previously unpublished wartime memoir from the acclaimed author of Birdy and A Midnight Clear. One of the most acclaimed American writers of his generation, and author of classic novels such as Birdy, A Midnight Clear and Dad, William Wharton was a very private man. Writing under a pseudonym, he rarel ...Show more
District Nurse by Patricia Jordan
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Born in Belfast, Patricia Jordan left for England to train as a nurse in the 1940s and DISTRICT NURSE is her moving and humorous account of life as a visiting nurse in a small English town. She leaves behind a close-knit family and a failed romance in Ireland to begin training in Barnet and Middlesex. S ...Show more
Kate Adie - The Kindness of Strangers - The Autobiography by Kate Adie
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
Kate Adie, reporting from the world's trouble spots, is so familiar to us that we all recognise her, but this book reveals much more about her eventful life. Raised in post-war Sunderland, where life was "a sunny experience, full of meat-paste sandwiches and Sunday school" Kate has courageously reported ...Show more
The Regal Rules for Girls by Jerramy Fine
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Do you dream of moving to England, falling in love with a handsome British nobleman, and living happily ever after in his ancestral castle? Time to stop dreaming and make that dream come true! " We can't all go to college with Prince William and eventually marry the future King of England, but there ar ...Show more
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson
$9.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Ben Carson, M.D., works medical miracles. Today, he's one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons in the world. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 33. Ben Carson ...Show more
Not Your Ordinary Housewife: How the Man I Loved Led Me into a World I Had Never Imagined by Nikki Stern
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
How does a young girl, educated at Melbourne's exclusive MLC, with degrees in Science and Design, become Australia's best-known porn star - The Horny Housewife? Nikki Stern had a very privileged start in life. Her father was in Who's Who and her mother was once a famous ballerina. Having graduated from ...Show more
A Time to Live, a Time to Die by Ernest McIvor
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A Time to Live, A Time to Die is the fascinating true stroy of the life of an extraordinary woman. Born to impoverished parents in Ukraine, and growing up in war-torn Europe, one of Lida's early memories was making a miraculous escape, with her mother, from a mass execution by the German Nazi invaders d ...Show more
Exposure by Michael Woodford
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Michael Woodford was made President and CEO of Olympus, he became the first Westerner ever to climb the ranks of one of Japan's corporate icons. Some wondered at the appointment - how could a gaijin (foreigner) who didn't even speak Japanese understand how to run a Japanese company? But within mont ...Show more
Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
$54.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books. In this new biography, best-selling author Paula Byrne (bestselling author of Perdita, Mad World) explores th ...Show more
Coming Up Roses by Cath Kidston
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
As the company celebrates its twentieth birthday, Cath Kidston shares the story of how her idea for modern vintage came about, how the business was born and the journey she and the company have taken over the past two decades. Cath tells of her experiences, both good and bad, and gives an insight in to ...Show more