Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story by Lynda Topp, Jools Topp
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The incredible story of how a couple of country kids from Huntly became much-loved Kiwi icons and TV stars, with their own unique brand of original country music and comedy that has captivated audiences in New Zealand and overseas for over 40 years. Jools and Lynda Topp aka The Topp Twins tell this sto ...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
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
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In her bestselling follow-up to the worldwide phenomenon Becoming, Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and insightful reflections to help us find inner strength; create and deepen relationships with others; and better protect and strengthen ourselves.Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter ...Show more
Surviving to Drive: A Year Inside Formula 1 by Guenther Steiner
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
**THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is watching one of your drivers hit a barrier at 190mph and exploding before your eyes...'Guenther Steiner is one of motor racing's biggest and most celebrated ...Show more
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project by Red Room Poetry, Anne-Marie Te Whiu (ed.)
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change / weaving solidarity from place and history / into collective purpose (Ellen Van Neerven and Layli Long Soldier) Following from the much-loved Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry ...Show more
Rambling Man: My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE NATION'S FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, BILLY CONNOLLYBeing a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met the weirdest and most wonderful people who walk the Earth, seen the most bizarre and the most fantastic sig ...Show more
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A Times Best Music Book of 2023*'Glorious! I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Self deprecating and refreshingly honest' - Sunday Times'Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend'Hilarious and so emotionally true' -Cameron Crowe'Taupin' ...Show more
My My!: ABBA Through the Ages by Giles Smith
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
On the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo – the song, not the battle - one super-fan sits down to listen to the ABBA Gold album from start to finish, looking back over the half-century he has spent in the company of ABBA’s music, and attempting to unlock the secrets of its hold on him – and on all of us. ...Show more
Ans Westra: A Life in Photography by Paul Moon
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The photographer Ans Westra, who died in 2023, took hundreds of thousands of images over her long career. Together, those images constitute what is arguably a photo album of Aotearoa. Her dedication and determination sometimes came at a cost but she was focused and driven, overcoming a difficult childh ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL'Janet Frame is the greatest Ne ...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