After the Tampa by Abbas Nazari
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere. The family's desperate search for safety took them on a harrowing journey from the mountains of A ...Show more
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order coul ...Show more
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
54.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the ...Show more
One of Them by Shaneel Lal
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
'Shaneel is not like anyone you have ever met. An absolute must-read.' - Ruby TuiWhat would you do if you were told by the people you loved the most that the way you were born was evil and wrong?For Shaneel Lal, this was their reality from the time they were five. Growing up in a tiny, traditional villa ...Show more
Soundings - Diving for stories in the beckoning sea by Kennedy Warne
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
For the past 40 years, Kennedy Warne, one of New Zealand's best-known nature writers and commentators, has been exploring the underwater world. His love of the ocean began as a small boy sailing and fishing with this father on the Hauraki Gulf and was further strengthened by a degree in marine biology. ...Show more
Landlines: The remarkable story of a thousand-mile journey across Britain by Raynor Winn
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Raynor knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he - can he? - set out with her on another healing walk?Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour and their hope is that it can work its magic agai ...Show more
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023"Brave and nuanced...an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph." --The New York Times"Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting." --Wall Street JournalOne of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of NonfictionAcclaimed author Jonathan Rosen's haunt ...Show more
The Long and Winding Road by Lesley Pearse
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Lesley Pearse didn't publish her first novel until she was 48. Now she has sold over ten million books around the world and is a constant presence on the bestseller chart.A writer of heart-stopping stories, Lesley's books are filled with heroines struggling to make it in a difficult world.Yet this descr ...Show more
King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig
42.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The compelling story of Martin Luther King's life and achievements has become simplified and domesticated in a way that fails to do full justice to his radical vision and importance. Now, in King, we get the most comprehensive and complete portrait ever written about this iconic figure. The first major ...Show more
The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021: 'Far away from Myself' by Clinton Heylin
84.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The second volume of Clinton Heylin's magisterial biography takes us from Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident to the present day. We meet a man who is determined to confound expectations; yet whatever he does only seems to confirm his iconic status to fans and critics alike.There are peaks and troughs. Lo ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before there was any possibility of 'a room of one's own'. In an innovative and engaging narrative of eve ...Show more
Enzo Ferrari: The definitive biography of an icon by Luca Dal Monte
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Soon to be an AppleTV+ series, Enzo uncovers a wealth of new facts about the origins, ambitions, and private life of Enzo Ferrari.Drawing on years of original research conducted in Italy and abroad, this book lays bare the hidden aspects of Ferrari's career. From his earliest failed business ventures, t ...Show more