Urban Outlaw: Dirt Don't Slow You Down by Magnus Walker
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Magnus Walker is one of life's originals. Serial entrepreneur, fashion designer, TV presenter, motivational speaker and one of the world's most prolific Porsche collectors, the dreadlocked, tattooed hoarder of individual creativity is a very modern incarnation of idiosyncratic success. Raised in the gri ...Show more
Valerie Taylor: An Adventurous Life by Valerie Taylor
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: An Adventurous Life | Reading Level: near fine
At 83 years old, Valerie Taylor has lived a big, bold adventurous life. Born in Australia, Valerie spent a great deal of her childhood in New Zealand. A talented artist, she dropped out of school when she contracted polio and was saved by Sister Elizabeth Kenny's treatment plan; it was two years before ...Show more
Van Morrison - No Surrender by Johnny Rogan
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Reclusive, difficult and enigmatic, Van Morrison is a gifted singer-songwriter and an endlessly complicated man. In Van Morrison: No Surrender, Johnny Rogan has produced a provocative and revelatory biography of the musician, analysing the sense of place in his work and the tortuous journey that took hi ...Show more
Verse, Chorus, Monster! by Graham Coxon
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
A long-awaited memoir of Blur co-founder, guitar legend and visual artist Graham Coxon. Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to become one of the most innovative and respected guitarists of his generation - but it wasn't always easy. G ...Show more
Vet on the Go by Graham Wallace
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
In February 1945, with no veterinary training available in New Zealand, Graham Wallace braved a German raider in the Tasman Sea to begin his studies in Sydney. The potentially explosive journey setting the tone for a colourful life working with big farm animals in rural New Zealand as a travelling vet, ...Show more
Victory in the Kitchen - The Life of Churchill's Cook by Annie Gray
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous, simply someone who worked hard and enjoyed her life. Beginning in 1882, she ranged through life in the country, life in the town, life in her own house, and in that of others. She travelled, married, had children and a highly succes ...Show more
Vita and Virginia: A Double Life by Sarah Gristwood
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world's most famous writers - a leading light of literary modernism and feminism - and a British icon. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sa ...Show more
Vital Signs: Heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious stories from a junior doctor's first year by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
An insight into what it's like to be a first year junior doctor - the ups and downs, the drama and how terrifying it is to finally be making decisions.
Walter Ralegh - Architect of Empire by Alan Gallay
$65.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and colonizer, showing how he laid the foundations of the English Empire Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of ...Show more
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-s ...Show more
Warren Gatland: Pride and Passion My Autobiography by Warren Gatland
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Warren Gatland is one of the most renowned rugby coaches of the last 20 years, leading Wales to three Six Nations titles, two Grand Slams and a World Cup semi-final, and delivering two successful tours as Head Coach of the British and Irish Lions. As he leaves his post as Head Coach of Wales at the end ...Show more