Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Join us on another unforgettable adventure through the extraordinary life and strong opinions of Miriam Margolyes. 'My new book is called Oh Miriam! - something that has been said to me a lot over the years, often in tones of strong disapproval. It contains lots more revelations and stories and discove ...Show more
Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her power as a woman, and her discovery that a strong sense of self is every woman’s right and saving gr ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR 'Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the w ...Show more
The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive by Erik Brouwer
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The story of Dutch boxer Leen Sanders who was spared to entertain the Nazi guards and helped others survive Auschwitz. 'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There are rumours that the loser will be sent to the gas chamber.' In 1943 Leen Sanders ...Show more
A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood by Helen Mort
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Guardian Books to Watch 2022Evening Standard Books to Watch 2022Bookseller Editor's ChoiceWinner of the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature'A wonderful book - exhilarating and taut, fearless in its explorations of wildness, risk, motherhood, and the inner and outer worlds of the writer' Jon Mc ...Show more
Astor: The Rise And Fall Of An American Fortune by Anderson Cooper
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvent ...Show more
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the fight for women in science by Kate Zernike
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The story of how a group of determined, brilliant women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. It shows that real power is collective power and that speaking up and allying yourself with likeminded others is one of the key pathways to change. This is ...Show more
README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women. In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card ...Show more
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An insightful and moving biography detailing the extraordinary life of award-winning and bestselling author Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his friend, former assistant, and now head of the author's literary estate. At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terr ...Show more
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt
31.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns ...Show more
Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time an ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy #1) by Gerald Durrell
26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell.Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Ge ...Show more