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Untitled: the Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anna Pasternak
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 3
Who was the real Wallis: an opportunistic American social climber, a master manipulator or the true love of Edward's life? Amid the cacophony of condemnation her story has become obfuscated. Untitled is an intimate biography of one of the most misunderstood women in British royal history. His charisma a ...Show more
The Choice: Even in Hell Hope Can Flower by Edith Eger
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
THE AWARDWINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateIn 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimagin ...Show more
Parallel Lives: Four Seasons in the French Pyrenees by Jennifer Andrewes
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Increasingly dissatisfied with the humdrum routine of corporate life, Jennifer Andrewes does what many of us can only dream about when in 2014 she and her family pack up and spend two seasons living in a village in the south-west region of France. But it’s not just any region as Jennifer discovers ...Show more
Womankind: New Zealand Women Making a Difference by Margie Thomson
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A landmark book of profiles and portraits celebrating the successes and diversity of New Zealand women across many spheres - politics, arts, science, community development, business innovation and health. These leaders share their views on what it's like to be a woman in New Zealand today- the contribu ...Show more
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in.When Gustav ...Show more
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off - And Other Lessons in Life by Michael Caine
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
With over 100 movies and two Academy Awards to his credit over six decades, Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares the wisdom, stories, insight, and skills that life has taught him in his remarkable career-and now his eighty-fifth year. One of our best-loved actors Michael Caine has starred in a huge ra ...Show more
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year Winner of the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Book of the Year Winner of Blackwell's Debut Book of the Year Winner of iBooks' Bo ...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
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
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
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The last time Lien saw her parents was in The Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a foster family far away to be hidden from the Nazis. What was her side of the story, Bart van Es - a grandson of the couple who looked after Lien - wondered? What really happened during the ...Show more
The Favourite FTI by Ophelia Field
$21.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The scandalous true history of the duchess who became her beloved queen's blackmailer, published in a new and updated edition to coincide with the major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz with Olivia Colman and Emma Stone. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was as glamorous as she was controver ...Show more
