The Aeronauts: Travels in the Air by James Glaisher
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
In 1862, ambitious scientist James Glaisher set out to do the impossible: ascend higher into the skies than ever before. A pioneer of weather forecasting and of photography, he wanted to take ground-breaking research measurements from different altitudes. Before aeroplanes, the only unpredictable availa ...Show more
Graham Greene: The Last Interview by Graham Greene
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
A master of twentieth century fiction, Graham Greene looks back on his life. This volume also includes several key interviews from throughout his long, fruitful career. Graham Greene led one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. The son of a Hertfordshire headmaster, he quickly d ...Show more
Gotta Get Theroux This - My life and strange times in television by Louis Theroux
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat charact ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: near fine
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time.The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by th ...Show more
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series by Dolly Alderton
28.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting du ...Show more
If You'd Just Let Me Finish by Jeremy Clarkson
28.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In November 2016 we woke up to the news that the forthright presenter of a popular television programme had become the most powerful man on the planet. His name, sadly, was not Jeremy Clarkson, but we might not have been any more surprised if it had been. Because the world seems to have taken a decidedl ...Show more
Made In Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country by Billy Connolly
28.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
"Where do you come from? It's one of the most basic human questions of all. But there is another question, which might sound a wee bit similar but is actually very different: What do you come from? And, let me tell you, that question can take you all sorts of strange places." In Made in Scotland, Lege ...Show more
Running With Sherman - The Donkey who Survived Against all Odds and Raced Like a Champion by Christopher McDougall
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Bestselling author of Born to Run rehabilitates a donkey to winning success. When barefoot running guru Christopher McDougall takes in a neglected donkey, his aim is to get Sherman back to reasonable health. But Sherman is ill-tempered, obstinate and uncooperative - and it's clear his poor treatment ha ...Show more
Against All Odds: The Inside Account of the Thai Cave Rescue, and the Courageous Australians at the Heart of It by Craig Challen; Richard Harris
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'I just want to warn you. You're going to dive to the end of the cave. You're going to see these kids. They're all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you're going to swim away, and they're probably all going to die.' In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more
Who Am I, Again? by Lenny Henry
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Sir Lenny Henry is one of the UK's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time. A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense o ...Show more
Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix by Mick Wall
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people. But when Jimmy arrived in England and became Jimi, the cream of swinging London fell ...Show more
The Beautiful Ones - Prince by Prince
55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time--featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death. Prince was a musical genius, one of t ...Show more