Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s by Kurt Vonnegut
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
This is the second volume of Vonnegut's autobiographical writings - a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression to the future of the planet and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Honest, dark, rambling, funny; this rare glimpse of Vonnegut's so ...Show more
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain.) ‘The book we need right now’ Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal. What do ...Show more
Feverish by Fenster Gigi
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Swaziland is where you think, for the first time, maybe if I got brain fever I would be able to stop worrying. I'd lose control and, maybe then, I'd understand my friend's mind. In an attempt to break free from rationality and make her life a work of art, Gigi Fenster decides to induce a fever in hersel ...Show more
Finding Frank: The lfife of Frank Erceg - New Zealand dear hunter, mountaineer, photographer by Louise Maich
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
By 1965 at the age of thirty, Frank Erceg had established an impressive reputation as a marksman, mountaineer and photographer, with his work widely published in newspapers and magazines of the day. That same year, Frank and his mate Johnny Cumming were killed in New Zealand’s first helicopter hunting ...Show more
Finding My Virginity by Richard Branson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
After creating 12 different billion-dollar businesses and breaking dozens of world records, wouldn't you think you'd done it all? Not Sir Richard Branson. Having brought the Virgin brand to all corners of the globe, he's now reaching out to the stars as he prepares to launch commercial space travel with ...Show more
First Lady : The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill by Sonia Purnell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Without Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour and repelled the Nazi menace. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never have become Prime Minister. By his own admission, the Second World War would have been 'impossible without her'. Clementine was Win ...Show more
Fish Ladder by Katharine Norbury
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine sets out - accompanied by her nine-year-old daught ...Show more
Florence Foster Jenkins by Nicholas Martin
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
'People may say that I couldn't sing. But no one can say that I didn't sing.' Despite lacking pitch, rhythm or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in 1868 to wealthy Pennsylvanian ...Show more
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend: 200th Anniversary Edition by Mark Bostridge
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. As the Lady with the Lamp, mi ...Show more
Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Series: Nungar
The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jig ...Show more
For the Glory: The Life of Eric Liddell by Duncan Hamilton
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Eric Liddell was as close to a saint as any man in modern history has been. Renowned for his athletic prowess, it was also his deeply entrenched values that set him apart from the crowd. These qualities were never better illustrated than in the 1924 Paris Olympics when, having declined his place in the ...Show more