Biography & Memoirs
Dive into inspiring stories with our wide collection of biography and memoir books, featuring the lives of influential figures, historical icons, and everyday heroes. Whether you're fascinated by the journeys of world leaders, artists, athletes, or pioneers, our biographies offer deep insights into their challenges and triumphs. Explore heartfelt and personal tales in memoirs that capture unique experiences, emotions, and lessons. Perfect for readers seeking motivation, history, or a deeper understanding of remarkable lives to discover stories that resonate and inspire.
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The Kiwi Runners' Family Tree: Volume Two: 2000 To 2020 - Dreydon Sobanja
Hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed The Kiwi Runners' Family Tree: Volume One 1800s to 1999 comes this second volume, showcasing the inspi...
View full detailsBruce Lee Words of the Dragon: Interviews and Conversations 1958-1973
Words of the Dragon is an anthology of newspaper and magazine interviews from 1958 to 1973 revealing Bruce Lee's own fascinating words and explanat...
View full detailsI Know I Am Rude: Prince Philip on Himself, the Queen and Others - Nigel Cawthorne
I Know I Am Rude: Prince Philip on Himself, the Queen and Others
Enough Horizon: The Life And Work Of Blanche Baughan - Carol Markwell
One of the first writers to speak with an authentic New Zealand voice, Blanche Edith Baughan (1870-1958) was known as a poet and local travel write...
View full detailsVet On The Go - Graham Wallace
In February 1945, with no veterinary training available in New Zealand, Graham Wallace braved a German raider in the Tasman Sea to begin his studie...
View full detailsVan Gogh: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Sophie Collins
Many people know that Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was a 19th-century Dutch artist, a leading light of the Post-Impressionist movement who painted 'S...
View full detailsThe World Odyssey of a Balinese Prince - Idanna Pucci
Born in 1919, Prince made Djelantik witnessed pivotal moments of history: the twilight of the feudal age, the Second World War in Nazi-occupied Hol...
View full detailsShakespeare: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Viv Croot
The Biographies series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 definin...
View full detailsRembrandt: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Sophie Collins
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining...
View full detailsRay Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema - Vanessa Harryhausen
Special effects superstar Ray Harryhausen elevated stop-motion animation to an art during the 1950s to 1980s. With material drawn from his incredib...
View full detailsPrince: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Liz Flavell
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining...
View full detailsMemory Stick - Anne Manchester
Born in Hamilton in 1950 with a penchant for drama, Anne Manchester was perplexed by her remote mother and frustrated by the strictures of a post-w...
View full detailsLeonardo: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Andrew Kirk
The Biographies series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 definin...
View full detailsI Can Give You Anything But Love - Gary Indiana
I Can Give You Anything But Love is a serious contribution to gay memoir and literary memoir genres. Will appeal primarily to gay and literary audi...
View full detailsDior: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Liz Flavell
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining...
View full detailsDegas: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Katie Greenwood
The Biographic senes presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining ...
View full detailsCocktails with Molotov and Tea with Mr. Lee - Bernard Brown
Bernard Brown lived through WW2 in Suffolk, England, where he was strafed by bullets from a German Dornier aeroplane; dived to fetch sculpturing cl...
View full detailsCoco: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Sophie Collins
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining...
View full detailsChurchill: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Richard Wiles
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creative. It takes the 50 defining ...
View full detailsBiographic: Tesla: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Brian Clegg
Many people know that Tesla was a scientific genius, instrumental in developing modern electricity and communications. What, perhaps, they don't kn...
View full detailsBiographic: Picasso: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Natalia Price-Cabrera
Biographic: Picasso: Great Lives in Graphic Form
Biographic: Sherlock: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Viv Croot
Many people know that Sherlock Holmes was an enigmatic detective who, with his companion Dr. Watson, pursued criminals through Victorian and Edward...
View full detailsBiographic: Monet: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Richard Wiles
Many people know that Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a founder of French Impressionism, a master of landscape painting whose works include Impression...
View full detailsBiographic: Marley: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Liz Flavell
Most people know that Bob Marley (1945-1981) was a singer-songwriter who popularised reggae music and whose Jamaican culture and Rastafarian belief...
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