Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East by Alistair Urquhart
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died and Urquhart ...Show more
Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens
$42.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
THE TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARNamed one of The Irish Times' Books of the Year for 2021 A compelling and comprehensive look at the life and art of Francis Bacon, one of the iconic painters of the twentieth century--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of de Kooning: An American Master. This intima ...Show more
Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography by Frank L Wright
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Frank Lloyd Wright exerted perhaps the greatest influence on twentieth century design. In a volume that continues to resonate more than seventy years after its initial publication, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography contains the master architect's own account of his work, his philosophy, and his perso ...Show more
Frank: The Making of a Legend by James Kaplan
$44.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Who was Frank Sinatra? And how did who he was lead to him creating such incomparable music? In FRANK, fans finally have a biography that goes more deeply into who he really was than any previous book about this extraordinary man. Sinatra was a bundle of contradictions. At once both spoiled and neglected ...Show more
Frank Worsley: Shackleton’s Fearless Captain by John Thomson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: New
This book is a biography of Frank Worsley, without doubt one of New Zealand's greatest, but largely unsung adventuring heroes. Born in Akaroa he went to sea as a teenager in 1888 on the sailing ships plying their trade between New Zealand and England. But the greatest adventure of his life began when he ...Show more
Franklin D. Roosevelt - A Political Life by Robert Dallek
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
In an era of such great national divisiveness, there could be no more timely biography of one of our greatest presidents than one focusing on his unparalleled ability as a uniter and consensus maker. Robert Dallek takes a fresh look at compelling questions that have attracted all FDR's biographers. How ...Show more
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Ypi Lea
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
THE SUNDAY TIMES MEMOIR OF THE YEARCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, DAILY MAIL, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR'Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family secrets and political awakening amid a crumbling regime. One of the nonfiction titles of the y ...Show more
Freyberg: A Life's Journey by Matthew Wright
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
In this fresh account of one of the 20th-century's great New Zealanders, Matthew Wright approaches Bernard Freyberg the man rather than the more widely known figure of a military leader. What took a humble immigrant child in Wellington to become a hero in two wars, friend to literary giants and politici ...Show more
From A Dark Cave To New Zealand: The story of my long journey as a Kurdish refugee by Mustafa Darbandi
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Hiding in a tiny dark cave in the border triangle between Iraq, Iran and Turkey, Mustafa Darbandi is facing his fear that he may not survive. On the run because of his membership of a banned Kurdish freedom movement, he has begun an extraordinary journey. It will take him from Iraq to Turkey to Iran to ...Show more
From There to Here - A Memoir by Joe Bennett
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty. Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty books, and now, at long last, a memoir. From There to Here describes a childhood of fishing, cricket, friends, a dog, some mild molestation and a few deat ...Show more
From the Centre - A Writer's Life by Patricia Grace
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
'We live by the sea, which hems and stitches the scalloped edges of the land.' Renowned writer Patricia Grace begins her remarkable memoirs beside her beloved Hongoeka Bay. It is the place she has returned to throughout her life, and fought for, one of many battles she has faced- 'It was when I first we ...Show more
Frost: That Was the Life That Was: The Authorised Biography by Neil Hegarty
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Sir David Frost, who died suddenly in August 2013, was the only person to have met and interviewed every British Prime Minister since Harold Wilson as well as seven Presidents of the United States. Other world leaders he interviewed included Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, Henry Kissi ...Show more