Paddy Cole: King of the Swingers by Cole Paddy
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The colourful story of the 80-year-old saxophone player and singer affectionately know as The King of The Swingers. Paddy Cole has taken his style of Jazz, Dixieland and Swing band music all over the world - and back home too. Paddy Cole is the grand old man of Irish Showbiz who still is young at heart ...Show more
Bus Stops on the Moon - Red Mole Days 1974-1980 by Martin Edmond
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
Bus Stops on the Moon is a personal and a cultural history. As memoir, it is a sequel to The Dreaming Land (2015). A troubled and restless young Martin Edmond is on his way to becoming the wiser, older man who will sit down and write both narratives. As cultural history, the book gives us a participant' ...Show more
The Paper Nautilus by Michael Jackson
$38.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
The Paper Nautilus is about loss the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginnings are born of brokenness. The paper nautilus provides a vivid image of this interplay of death and rebirth since, for new life to begin, the angelically beau ...Show more
The Aeronauts by James Glaisher
$23.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
In 1862, ambitious scientist James Glaisher set out to do the impossible: ascend higher into the skies than ever before to establish his groundbreaking research. Glaisher's death-defying journey forms the story of the major motion picture The Aeronauts, starring Eddie Redmayne as Glaisher and Felicity ...Show more
Arthur Prior - A 'Young Progressive': Letters to Ursula Bethell and to Hugh Teague 1936-1941 by Mike Grimshaw
$65.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Arthur Prior (1914-69), the founder of 'tense logic', is regarded as New Zealand's greatest 20th-century philosopher. It is commonly believed that the philosopher J.N.D. Findlay lured a young Prior away from theology and his training for the ministry to the world of philosophy. However, as Prior's lette ...Show more
First Lady by Alison Mau
$44.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
An honest, insightful, sometimes brutal but often hilarious account of Elizabeth Roberts, the first New Zealander to undergo full sex-change surgery. Her dramatic story tells of the often torturous transition from the boy Garry, to the woman Elizabeth, but the book is not just about the transsexual exp ...Show more