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
A Year in the Woods Twelve Small Journeys into Nature by Torbjørn Ekelund
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From the acclaimed author of In Praise of Paths comes a humorous and modest Walden for modern times. As nature becomes ever more precious, we all want to spend more time appreciating it. But time is often hard to come by. And how do we appreciate nature without disruption? In this sensitively-written bo ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...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
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family by Arthur Edwards
59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
For 45 years I’ve chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I’ve witnessed their triumphs and disasters, their laughter and tears, when they’ve found love and when their relationships splinter. I’m there when they emerge from the maternity wing as wailing newborns and I’m there a ...Show more
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter [A Sunday Times Bestseller] by Josef Lewkowicz
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An amazing, untold story of the Holocaust, of survivor turned Nazi hunter In the tradition of The Boy in the Woods and By Chance Alone, The Survivor is an unbelievable yet true story of one man's endurance and his determination to not only survive the Holocaust but to bring to justice those who perpetra ...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
CSNY: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young by Peter Doggett
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An engaging and illuminating biography focused on the formative and highly influential early years of "rock's first supergroup" (Rolling Stone) Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young--when they were the most successful, influential, and politically potent band in America. After making their marks in popular ba ...Show more
Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. Here is a fresh perspective on his extraordinary life and times. In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and h ...Show more
One Dog Barked, the Other Howled - A Mediation on Several Lives of a Minor American Writer by Jeshel Forrester
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the story of a man who left instructions that the word "WRITER"--in capital letters--should be carved into the centre of his tombstone. Philip F Deaver's writing won America's Flannery O'Connor and O. Henry awards. For 20 years, he was the writer-in-residence and creative writing professor at ...Show more