A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the me ...Show more
James Lees-Milne by Michael Bloch
79.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
James Lees-Milne (1908--97) -- known to friends as Jim -- is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as 'the twentieth-century Pepys'. In this long-awaited b ...Show more
The First Emperor by Anthony Everitt
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Caesar Augustus is one of the most fascinating figures in history. Plucked as teenager from provincial obscurity by his great-uncle Julius Caesar, who adopted him posthumously in his will, Augustus transformed the chaotic Republic into an orderly imperial autocracy. His consolidation of the Roman empire ...Show more
The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography by Stephen Fry
46.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a multi ...Show more
Petite Anglaise by Catherine Sanderson
37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Living in Paris with her partner, the workaholic Mr Frog, and their adorable toddler, Tadpole, Catherine decides to alleviate the boredom of her metro-boulotdodo routine by starting a blog under the name of Petite Anglaise. Writing with disarming honesty about Paris life, about the confines of her ho ...Show more
And It's Goodnight from Him...The Autobiography of the Two Ronnies by Ronnie Corbett
39.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
On 1st April 1971, The Two Ronnies aired for the first time on the BBC. It quickly became one of the most successful and long running television comedy shows ever on British television and its stars - Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett - national treasures. For the first time ever, Ronnie Corbett takes us ...Show more
And Another Thing : The World According to Clarkson Volume 2 by Jeremy Clarkson
39.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book about it. But despite the appearance of the bestselling The World According To Clarkson, things don't seem to have changed much. And so Jeremy's having another go. In And Another Thing, our exasperated hero dis ...Show more
Bermondsey Boy by Tommy Steele
59.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Surrounded by docks and sitting on the South-East of the Thames 1930's Bermondsey was a thriving place. And it was here that Thomas Hicks was born. It wasn't until much later that this Bermondsey boy would become known as Tommy Steele. Saturdays as a young boy were spent gazing at the colourful posters ...Show more
And it's Goodnight from Him... by Ronnie Corbett
65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
We were trying to create more than a show. We were trying to create an event, and that event was a moment for the whole family, to sit and relax together, to laugh and smile together, without embarrassment. For millions of people, during the seventies and eighties "The Two Ronnies" were Saturday night. ...Show more
Grace and Grit : Spirituality and Healing in the Life of Treya Killam Wilber by Ken Wilber
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The story of the five-year journey of psychologist Ken Wilber and his wife, Treya, through her illness, treatment and finally death.
The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power and the Obsessions of Henry Wickham by Joe Jackson
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1876, a man named Henry Wickham smuggled seventy thousand rubber tree seeds out of the rain forests of Brazil and delivered them to Victorian England's most prestigious scientists at Kew Gardens. Those seeds, planted around the world in England's colonial outposts, gave rise to the great rubber boom ...Show more
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: Life in the Back of Beyond by Tomi Ungerer
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Tiring of the hectic pace of seventies New York, acclaimed graphic designer Tomi Ungerer and his wife Yvonne hit the road in search of a new, simpler life on an isolated peninsula in Nova Scotia, Canada