Resistance : A Childhood Fighting for East Timor by Naldo Rei
39.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Naldo Rei was just six months old when Indonesia invaded East Timor in December 1975. He spent the first three years of his life in the jungle, where his family had fled for safety. After his father was murdered for his work in the resistance movement, nine-year-old Naldo was recruited by the clandestin ...Show more
Dear Zari : Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan by Zarghuna Kargar
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 2001 Zarghuna Kargar came to the UK as an asylum-seeker. She and her family were forced to leave their home in Kabul during the civil war and then spent several years as refugees in Pakistan. Zarghuna trained as a journalist with BBC Worldwide in Peshawar, and when she came to London she quickly got ...Show more
Chastened: No More Sex in the City by Hephzibah Anderson
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
For the last year Hephzibah Anderson has flirted, dated, swooned, and sighed. She has been tantalized by intense conversations, lingering looks and clinches in the back of taxis. She has watched dawn break cradled in the arms of a dangerous ex, sipped cocktails against the Manhattan skyline with a dark- ...Show more
The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942 by Olivier Philipponnat
42.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
She was born in 1903 in Kiev to a well-off Jewish family. The authors of this fascinating biography have had access to previously unpublished documents and to surviving family members in Russia, researching there her childhood in the Ukraine, and tracing her odyssey first to St Petersburg, where her fat ...Show more
Captivated - J M Barrie, The Du Mauriers & The Dark Side of Neverland by Piers Dudgeon
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
Captivated is about the inspiration for three of the most intriguing characters of fiction: Svengali, Peter Pan and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. The link is J.M. Barrie who was connected, in some way, to each. This captivating biography delves deep and yields up secrets. "From the Hardcover edition." ...Show more
The Stranger in the Mirror: A Memoir of Middle Age by Jane Shilling
46.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I looked in the mirror one morning, and saw the face of a stranger. Who was she, this haggard, bun-faced woman with the softening jawline, the downturned mouth, the world-weary air of a woman who hasn't had what she wanted from life, and knows she isn't going to get it now? Why, it was no one else but ...Show more
Risotto with Nettles - A Memoir with Food by Anna Del Conte
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a tinned spaghetti hoop. Sharply observant, evocative, full of tastes and talk of food, hers is a delicious, poignant memoir of an unusual life and the food she loves to cook, which launched a culin ...Show more
Wild Mary : A life of Mary Wesley by Patrick Marnham
62.99 NZD
65.00 (3% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The extraordinary life of Mary Wesley. Mary Wesley published her first novel when she was 70 - and went on to write 9 more bestsellers before her death in 2002 at the age of 89. Wesley was a pen-name, derived from the family name of Wellesley. She was born Mary Farmar, descended from the Duke of Welli ...Show more
Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Gabrielle Hamilton's childhood home in rural Pennsylvania, with her four siblings and her parents who threw grand parties (hundreds of guests came to enjoy the pigeon pies and baby lambs roasted over wood fires) was thrilling, magnificent. But when her parents divorced and the family scattered, Gabriell ...Show more
Unaccompanied Women by Jane Juska
39.99 NZD
44.99 (11% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
As a result of what she calls
Poe : A LIfe Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor of the "Literary Messenger" he was influential among critics and writers of the Ameri ...Show more
Newton by Peter Ackroyd
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is said to have made his greatest contributions to original thought in science in 1665-6 while at his parents' home in Lincolnshire escaping the Great Plague (which had closed the universities), a period of which he wrote: 'I was in the prime of my age for invention'. It was ...Show more