Love Our Way A Mothers Story by Rollings, Julia
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Managing a household of eight children takes a lot of love and patience - and amazing parents. When six of your children are adopted from overseas, learning to adapt to any situation becomes a survival skill. Having created a riotously happy family, Julia and Barry Rollings thought they could handle any ...Show more
Never Say Die (Reprint Edition) Chris O'Brien by Chris O'Brien
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
How a grim diagnosis transformed the life of one of Australia's top cancer specialists. It was a cruel twist of fate: in November 2006 Chris O'Brien, one of the country's leading head and neck cancer surgeons, was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive and almost inevitably lethal form of ...Show more
Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This, and Other Lies from a Life in the Screen Trade by Bruce Beresford
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
What is it like to be a veteran director up against the machinations of modern-day Hollywood, with its self-absorbed stars, studio executives who think 'Singapore' is a made-up country, destitute producers posing as lords of finance - the mad, the bad and the downright notorious? Award-winning filmmaker ...Show more
Since I Was A Princess by Jacqueline Pascarl
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The amazing conclusion to Jacqueline Pascarl's quest to reunite with the children she lost to the Malaysian prince she once loved. For the first time she tells the full story of the torment of 14 years of waiting, hoping and secretly negotiating - and of the triumphant, ahppy reunion which brought the f ...Show more
MP: The Life of Michael Peterson by Sean Doherty
34.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Michael Peterson, or MP as he is commonly known, ruled the surfing scene throughout the early to mid-1970s. Despite Michael's brilliant success he was, unbeknownst to all, facing a tougher opponent than anything he would ever encounter in the surf. What many dismissed as introverted weirdness was, in fa ...Show more
Peter Jackson : A Film-Maker's Journey by Brian Sibley
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In this authorised biography, the boy from Wellington's Pukerua Bay reveals how he beat Hollywood at its own game. It is a story of passion, single-minded determination, and, above all, an artistic vision and a sense of dramatic scale.Through Jackson's eyes and own words, as well as re-tellings and memo ...Show more
Sophie's Journey by Sally Collings
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Ten days before Christmas. A room of children, napping on mattresses in their day care centre, waiting for Santa to arrive. ItâÃÂÃÂs a peaceful scene. Until a car crashes through the doors at head height, smashing into the midst of the sleeping children. The engine revs faster and faster; flames ...Show more
The Official Bra Boys Story: My Brothers Keeper by Sean Doherty
36.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Life was never destined to be a smooth ride for the Abberton brothers. The four boys, all born to different fathers, grew up on Sydney's Maroubra beach at a time when the place was in the shadow of drugs and gang violence. Raised largely by their grandmother, Sunny, Jai, Koby and Dakota found solace in ...Show more
Once I Was a Princess by Jacqueline Pascarl
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1980, Jacqueline Gillespie married Prince Raja Bahrin and was transported to Malaysia, where she was forced to suppress her intellect and endure physical brutality. She escaped to Australia with her children, only for them to be abducted by their father. This is her story.
Destined to Live : One Woman's war, life, loves remembered by Sabina Wolanski with Diana Bagnall
36.99 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Sabina survived the Nazi invasion of Poland as a twelve-year old, while the rest of her family were murdered. Eventually managing to emigrate to Australia with her second husband, Sabina turned her back on the past in order to survive the present. When she became friends with the daughter of a Nazi, she ...Show more
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust, an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in ...Show more
Lucky for Me by Frank Robson
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
New Zealand author. At 18 months of age Lucky, a cream coloured terrier, was dropped off at a vet's clinic in Queensland, abandoned by his owners. Just a week from being put down, he was adopted by Frank Robson, this is a story mateship and the joys of an independent spirit.