Sea State by Tabitha Lasley
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
‘Sea State marks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice’ Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE A candid examination of the life of North Sea oil riggers, and an explosive portrayal of masculinity, loneliness and female ...Show more
Raiment - A Memoir by Jan Kemp
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhood to the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual e ...Show more
Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Linda Collins gets up on a Monday morning, dresses for work, makes coffee and goes into her daughter Victoria’s bedroom. Why hasn’t Vicky got up yet? It’s an important day: the start of the second term of her final year at school. Today she will hear her latest exam results. The bedroom is empty. So beg ...Show more
This Is Not How It Ends - How Rewriting your Story can Save Your Life by Jehan Casinader
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A BOOK OF HEALING AND HOPE BY NEW ZEALAND TV JOURNALIST JEHAN CASINADER As an award-winning TV journalist, Jehan Casinader told other people's stories - until he lost control of his own. Severely depressed, he tried everything - from mindfulness to massage; Prozac to Pilates. Was something missing? Th ...Show more
Inge's War - A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler by Svenja O'Donnell
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera'A superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet, author of SpoilsWhat does it mean to be on the wrong side of history?Svenja's beautiful, aloof grandmother Inge never spoke about the past. All her family knew wa ...Show more
Birds, Beasts And Relatives (Corfu trilogy #2) by Gerald Durrell
26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
The follow up to My Family and Other Animalsand the second book in The Corfu Trilogy, the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children, ten ...Show more
Bernard Who? - 75 Years of Doing Just about Everything by Bernard Cribbins; James Hogg
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Essential' DAILY MAIL CELEBRITY BIOGRAPHIES OF THE YEAR 'The book reads like it's Bernard sitting down and telling a story' Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2 'A fitting celebration of one of our most versatile and enduring acting talents' Sunday Express 'A rollicking good read - charming, unassuming and full ...Show more
Gulpilil by Derek Rielly
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
It's been almost fifty years since a teenage David Gulpilil illuminated screens worldwide with his breakout role in Walkabout. It was the first time we'd seen an Aboriginal cast in a significant role and only four years after Holt's referendum to alter the constitution and give Aboriginal people citizen ...Show more
Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more
All Blacks Don't Cry: A Story of Hope by John Kirwan
42.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Very Good
At my worst moments, I lost all sense of hope for the future. As I began to slowly get better, I began to be able to say to myself, 'This will pass, you'll get through this. Hang on to hope.' John Kirwan was one of the most devastating wingers New Zealand, and world, rugby had ever seen. A prominent and ...Show more
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
25.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Anne's thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends stay ...Show more
Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir by Catherine Gildiner
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Cathy is rarely out of trouble whether it's asking why seeing Elvis below the waist is a sin, stabbing the school bully with a compass, breaking through police cordons to interview the Tuscadora Indians or swapping holy water for vodka to test the local priest's alcoholism. She even delivers Nembutal to ...Show more