The Man Who Wrote Mozart by Anthony Holden
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In June 1805, a 56-year-old Italian immigrant disembarked in Philadelphia carrying only a violin. Before dying in New York 23 years later he would find New World respectability as the first Professor of Italian at Columbia University. For now, he set up shop as a grocer. There was always an air of myst ...Show more
The Man Who was Saturday by Patrick Bishop
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of Britain's most remarkable 20th century figures. Airey Neave was ...Show more
The Man with the Golden Typewriter: The Bond Letters by Fergus Fleming
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, 'My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold.' He had bought the golden typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel, Casino Royale. It marked ...Show more
The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Handpicked in 1999 by the 'Family' surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience beyond having served as deputy mayor of St Petersburg, seemed like the perfect choice in the eyes of an oligarchy bent on moulding ...Show more
The Many Lives of Tom Waits by Patrick Humphries
$55.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In a career spanning 30 years, Tom Waits has recorded over 20 albums including Small Change and Blue Valentine and has had his songs covered by a vast array of artists including Bruce Springsteen, Meatloaf and Johnny Cash. His voice was once described as 'like Ethel Merman and Louis Armstrong meeting in ...Show more
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
$31.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
William Smith was not rich or well-connected, but his passion for rocks and fossils, and his 20-year obsession with single-handedly mapping the geology of Britain made him one of the most significant men of the 19th century. But his vision cost him dear
The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Michael Blanding
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Once considered a respectable rare-map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley made millions and was highly esteemed for his knowledge; until he was arrested for slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. Though pieces of the story have been told before, Blanding is the first reporter to gain access to ...Show more
The Mapmaker's Wife : A true tale of love, murder and survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker
$27.90 NZD
Category: General Biography
In the early 18th Century a group of scientists set off from France to discover the unknown land of South America in a trip that nearly ended in disaster. Scaling the 16,000 foot Peruvian Andes, the scientists faced the depravations and dangers of the rain forest wild cats, insects and vampire bats and ...Show more
The Mascot (O/P 23/4/09) by Mark Kurzem
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Hiding in a tree, 5 year old Jewish boy Alex Kurzman witnesses his family murdered by a German execution squad. He escapes and after many harsh months falls into the hands of a Latvian police battalion. These soldiers adopt him as a mascot and he becomes a part of the Nazi propaganda machine.<br& ...Show more
The Master Pearler's Daughter : Memories of my Broome Childhood by Rosemary Hemphill
$27.90 NZD
Category: General Biography
A rare view of a place that has changed and a time that will never be repeated - Broome in the 1920s and 30s - told by Rosemary Hemphill, whose father owned one of the largest fleets of pearling luggers in the state and whose mother longed for the genteel life she had left behind in England. Now in her ...Show more
The Matriarch: The Story of 'Granny Evil' Kathy Pettingill by Adrian Tame
$23.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Kathy Pettingill is a name that's both respected and feared, not only by Australia's criminal underworld, but by many in the Victorian police force. As the matriarch at the head of the most notorious and violent family of habitual offenders in Australian criminal history, her life has revolved around mu ...Show more
The Mauritanian by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
Previously published as Guantánamo Diary, this momentous account and international bestseller is soon to be a major motion pictureThe first and only diary written by a Guantánamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previously censored material restored.Mohamedou Ould Slahi was imprisoned in Guant ...Show more