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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
A Rebel in Exile Shane 'Kiwi' Martin by Shane Martin
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In this revealing book Shane 'Kiwi' Martin details his tough childhood and upbringing in small town New Zealand, his decision to 'cross the ditch' and how he eventually joined one of Australia's notorious bikie gangs, the Rebels. He also tells the story of how he came to live, work, marry and raise chil ...Show more
I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter (HB) by David Chariandy
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote Tamirat For readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy. I can glimpse, through the lens of my own e ...Show more
One Man's Climb - A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy and Triumph on K2 by Adrian HAYES
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
He was also one of the last people to speak to highly renowned mountaineering guide Marty Schmidt, and his son Denali, who tragically died on K2 in 2013 during Adrian's first attempt. Adrian was the one to break the news of this tragedy to the outside world. The author frankly discusses the true reason ...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
Maid - Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich. 'My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.' As a struggling single ...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
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 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
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
