The Man Who Climbs Trees by James Aldred
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'The wide horizontal branches stretched away from me to curl up like the giant fingers of an enormous cupped hand. I slid back into the centre of its protective palm and waited for my heart to slow. After a while the small herd of Fallow deer I had been following emerged from the trees, carefully pickin ...Show more
The Man Who Created Narnia: The Life of CS Lewis by Michael Coren
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
The Story of C.S. Lewis
The Man Who Cycled the Americas by Mark Beaumont
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The story of a second epic and record-breaking endurance adventure by the author of the bestselling and award-winning The Man Who Cycled the World. 31,000 miles. 22,840 feet high. 34 countries. 15 months. 2 amazing journeys. In 2008, Mark Beaumont smashed the world record for cycling around the worl ...Show more
The Man Who Knew Too Much by David Leavitt
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bl ...Show more
The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin by Jan Stocklassa; Tara F. Chace (Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The author of the Millennium novels laid out the clues. Now a journalist is following them. When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had been working on a true mystery that out-twisted his Millennium novels: the assassination on February 28, 1986, of Olof Palme, the Swedis ...Show more
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