The Big Book of Rock and Roll Names by Adam Dolgins
Category: Sale Book
The Big Book of Rock & Roll Namestells the behind-the-scenes stories of how the world’s most popular and influential rock and pop acts got their names. By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, the pages offer insight into the peculiar choices and idiosyncratic psychologies of hundreds of top musici ...Show more
The Sea Journal: Seafarers' Sketchbooks by Huw Lewis-Jones
Category: Biography/Memoir
The sea has been an endless source of fascination, at once both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. The Sea Journal contains first-hand records by a great range of travellers of their encounters with strange creatures and new lands, full of dangers and delights, pleasures and perils. ...Show more
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: good
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more
Shirley Smith: An Examined Life by Gaitanos Sarah
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Shirley Smith was one of the most remarkable New Zealanders of the 20th century, a woman whose lifelong commitment to social justice, legal reform, gender equality and community service left a profound legacy. She was born in Wellington in 1916. While her childhood was clouded by loss - her mother died ...Show more
A Communist in the Family - Searching for rewi Alley by Sandys Elspeth
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley is a beautifully written multi-layered narrative centred on New Zealander Rewi Alley and his part in the momentous political events of mid-twentieth-century China. Part-biography, part-travel journal, part-literary commentary, A Communist in the Family ...Show more
A Dangerous Woman - American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator--The Life of Florence Gould by Susan Ronald
Category: Biography/Memoir
Susan Ronald's A DANGEROUS WOMAN is the revealing biography of Florence Gould, a fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940's Paris. Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris at the age of eleven. Be ...Show more
Vet on the Go by Graham Wallace
Category: Biography/Memoir
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
Journeys to the Other Side of the World - Further Adventures of a Young Naturalist by David Attenborough
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'a wondrous reminder of Attenborough's pioneering role . . . full of delightful tales' Daily Express 'An adventure that sparked a lifetime's commitment to the planet' The Lady Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions, in the late 1950s onwards the young David Attenborough embarked o ...Show more
Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
Category: Sale Book
Sdecondhand. Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts. `Double Unit' tells the story of Maurice Gee's parents - Lyndahl Chapple Gee, a talented writer who for reasons that become clear never went on with a writing career, and Len Gee, a boxer, builder, and man's man. `Blind Ro ...Show more
The Hills of Chianti: The Story of a Tuscan Winemaking Family in Seven Bottles by Piero Antinori
Category: Biography/Memoir
The head of Italy’s "first family" of winemaking reflects on the Antinoris’ six-hundred-year legacy and a life of good food and drink in the hills of Tuscany. If you know wine, you know the name Antinori. Since 1385, this noble Florentine family has produced some of Italy’s finest wines. The Hills of Ch ...Show more
In the Eye of the Storm: The Autobiography of Sir John Houghton by John Houghton
Category: Biography/Memoir
For John Houghton, the Chief Executive of the Met Office at the time of the Great Storm in 1987, and founding member of the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), childhood curiosity about the natural world led to a quest for answers through science. Inspired by new, excit ...Show more