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.
Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men by Peter FitzSimons
54.99 NZD
56.00 (1% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
Known to millions simply as 'Smithy', Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was one of Australia's true twentieth-century legends. In an era in which aviators were superstars, Smithy was among the greatest and, throughout his amazing career, his fame in Australia was matched only by that of Don Bradman. Among oth ...Show more
World Beyond Tears by Sue Williams
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Follow-up to Mean Street Kind Heart, author Sue Williams takes up the inspiring story of maverick priest Father Chris Riley and his mission to help society's most disadvantaged and vulnerable children. This book takes Father Chris's new challenges abroad, extending his reach to help children in Asia and ...Show more
Desert Queen : The Many Lives and Loves of Daisy Bates by Susanna De Vries
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Queen of the Never Never as never seen before! In the 1890s when most women were content to marry well and raise families, Daisy Bates, an Irish-born, former charity case orphan, reinvented herself from governess to heiress to anthropologist. She would become one of the best known, and most controve ...Show more
Hanoi, Adieu by Mandaley Perkins
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A haunting memoir of a young man growing up during the years of French rule in Vietnam.Michel L'Herpiniere is a teenager when he arrives in Indochina in the years before World War II. He immediately falls in love with the country and the people, but gradually becomes aware that what is an idyll for the ...Show more
Kathys Story by Kathy O'Beirne
36.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The infamous Magdalen Laundries operated for over eight decades. Thousands of young Irish girls were incarcerated in homes run by nuns and subjected to punishing work routines. Many were beaten and sexually abused. No survivor of the horrific system has ever told their personal story - until now. Kathy ...Show more