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We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences travelling the world and visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider ...Show more
Made in Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country by Billy Connolly
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
All roads lead home.'After my knighthood was announced,a woman from the BBC came toGlasgow to interview me. We satdown in a lovely hotel in a nice partof town, and she hit me with her firstquestion- "This must mean a lot toyou, with you coming from nothing?"I looked at her, and I laughed."I did?nae come ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots [FTI: My Heart is My Own] by John Guy
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
What does the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies and deception do to a black body, a black family and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse' In Heavy, Laymon writes about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early ...Show more
We Need to Weaken the Mixture by Guy Martin
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I can't stop biting off more than I can chew. Maybe I'm wearing everything out, but I believe the body is a fantastic thing and it will repair itself and I'll go again. If it's running too rich, I don't stop what I'm doing, just weaken the mixture and carry on.'Since we last heard from him, Guy Martin ...Show more
Life as a Novel: A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt (#1 1932 to 1973) by Philip Temple
$44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Maurice Shadbolt believed that New Zealanders should tell their own stories, cherish their own myths and believe in their own big lies before they could stand upright in a post-colonial world. Through his fiction, non-fiction and international journalism, he played a leading role in projecting New Zeala ...Show more
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence - Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all-new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France: lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed. Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his ...Show more
Theo Schoon: A Biography by Damian Skinner
$59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Émigré artist Theo Schoon was fascinating, unorthodox, controversial, pioneering and at times reckless. His life intersected with important cultural periods and places, where what it meant to be modern in New Zealand were being debated andarticulated in art, literature, music and theatre.T ...Show more
Seduction: Sex, Money and Power in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
IIn this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood's glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul's obsessions with sex, power and publicity trapped, ...Show more
Magic by Jan Golembiewski
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I couldn't put it down.' Sofie LagunaThis is a true story. A young man heads off on a journey to find out if magic still exists in the world, to know its wonder, and to see if it might save him when his own life is unexpectedly at stake.In the Caribbean, he meets a Rastafarian Don Juan who teaches him ...Show more
Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime by Joanne Drayton
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Empress of Crime's life was the ultimate detective story - revealed for the first time in this forthright and perceptive biography. While Ngaio Marsh had a flamboyant public persona, she was fiercely protective of her private life. And no one knows better how to cover tracks with red herrings and re ...Show more
Hudson and Halls - The Food of Love by Joanne Drayton
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story, though a love story it certainly is. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock bad attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s to that unspoken thing - homosexuality. Peter Hudson and David Halls became reluctan ...Show more
