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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Digging Deep | Charles Higham
In this unique memoir, Charles Higham, one of the great archaeologists of his generation, describes the inside story of how his many excavations ha...
View full detailsGossamer Years | Seidensticker
Gossamer Years is a remarkably frank diary written by an unnamed noblewoman in Tenth-century Japan-the same period as Murasaki Shikibu's celebrated...
View full detailsBit Part Actor | Frank Edwards
Frank Edwards has one of those faces Kiwis recognise. A working actor and writer for over fifty years, he's been part of projects like blockbuster ...
View full detailsComrade Bill Anderson A Communist Working Class Life
Bill Andersen was one of the most significant figures in New Zealand's trade union movement in the later twentieth century. Cybele Locke's biograph...
View full detailsSimon Gault: No Half Measures
Auckland chef Simon Gault opened his first restaurant aged 22, piling up awards and accolades at Bell House, Gault's on Quay, Euro, Giraffe and mor...
View full detailsBruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon - John Little
The first compilation of Bruce Lee photographs published in association with the Bruce Lee estate. This book reveals the full range of Lee's talent...
View full detailsThe Real Roald Dahl - Nadia Cohen
General Fields ISBN : 9781526751768 Publisher : Pen & Sword Books Limited Imprint : Pen & Sword Books Limited Publica...
View full detailsI Have Control - A Pilot'S View Of Changing Airliner Technology - Keith Spragg
Between 1967 and 1997 Keith Spragg progressed from the greenest new co-pilot on a piston-engined Vickers Viking to a fully qualified jet captain....
View full detailsFighters In The Blood - The Story Of A Spitfire Pilot - And The Son Who Follows In His Footsteps - Black' Robertson
General Fields ISBN : 9781526784865 Publisher : Pen & Sword Books Limited Imprint : Air World Publication date : June...
View full detailsCommando: Memoirs Of Fighting Commando In World War Two
_Commando_ is the real and exciting story of one of the most important units of World War II. The Commando unit played an important role in Britain...
View full details'Sam' Marshal Of The Royal Airforce The Lord Elworthy Hb - Richard Mead
His meteoric rise continued post-war. Switching to Fighter Command he saw service in India, Pakistan, and the UK before becoming Commandant of the ...
View full detailsJames Taylor - Cut Short
JAMES TAYLOR was born in Burrough on the Hill, Leicestershire, in 1990. A sporting phenomenon from an early age, he chose to forge a life in cricke...
View full detailsBlack Ties, Red Carpets, Green Rooms - Richard Wilkins
As the Nine Network's Entertainment Editor and more than 17 years on the Today show, Richard Wilkins has interviewed the cream of the international...
View full detailsOn Operations With C Sqaudron Sas
General Fields ISBN : 9781526772855 Publisher : Pen Sword Books Ltd Imprint : Pen Sword Books Ltd Product Type : books
The Kiwi Runners' Family Tree: Volume One: 1800S - 1999 - Dreydon Sobanja
The Kiwi Runners' Family Tree tells the stories of over one hundred running related athletes and coaches, focusing on the interconnections between ...
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 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 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 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 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...
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