A Piece Of Cake by Cupcake Brown
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake and it begins when, aged eleven, she is orphaned and placed in the 'care' of sadistic foster parents. But there comes a point in her preteen years maybe it's the night she first tries to run away and is exposed to drugs, alcohol, and sex al ...Show more
Stolen Time by Sunny Jacobs
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'In a world of one, I am alone, more alone than I have ever been in my life.Locked up in a box within a box where no one can enter and I cannot leave. I am to await my death.' In 1976 a twenty-eight-year-old mother of two and her partner were wrongfully sentenced to death by the Florida courts for the m ...Show more
Blood and Sand : Life, death and survival in an age of global terror by Frank Gardner
27.99 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
On 6 June 2004, Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were in a suburb of Riyadh, filming a report on Al-Qaeda when they were confronted by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was brought down by shots in the shoulder and leg. As he lay bleeding in the street, a figure stood over him a ...Show more
Sheepwrecked by Jackie Moffat
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Jackie Moffat returns with a new volume of autobiography that brings to life the trials and tribulations, the occasional pitfall and the many pleasures of running a small working farm in one of the most beautiful parts on England - Cumbria, and more specifically the Eden Valley. In her own inimitable wa ...Show more
Moving Mountains by Claire Bertschinger
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the memoir by the International Red Cross nurse whose work during the famine in Ethiopia was first brought to the attention of the western world by the BBC's Michael Buerk and which triggered Bob Geldof's Live Aid. One of the most enduring images of the Ethiopian famine that shocked the world ...Show more
An Aristocratic Affair by Janet Gleeson
29.99 NZD
33.00 (9% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The life of Harriet Spencer, Countess of Bessborough, was one of both respectability and high scandal. The aristocracy of the eighteenth century were the A-list celebrities of the day; their lives, loves, fashions and misfortunes avidly reported in the press. They dominated the political world as well a ...Show more
Gweilo: Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Martin Booth died in February 2004, shortly after finishing the book that would be his epitaph - this wonderfully remembered, beautifully told memoir of a childhood lived to the full in a far-flung outpost of the British Empire...An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole o ...Show more
Mayada : Daughter Of Iraq - One woman's survival in Saddam Hussein's torture jail by Jean Sasson
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family. When Saddam Hussein seized power, Mayada found herself alone in Baghdad, a divorced parent, earning a meagre living, until one morning when she was dragged to the notorious Baladiyat Prison, falsely accused of printing anti-government propaganda and thrown i ...Show more
Burned Alive by Souad
24.99 NZD
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing th ...Show more
Lady Franklin's Revenge by Ken McGoogan
28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Born into a wealthy London family in late-eighteenth-century England, Jane Griffin enjoyed nothing like the opportunities available to men of her class. And yet she became a world traveller, ranging far off the beaten path of Grand-Tour Europe to explore Russia, Greece, the Holy Land and northern Africa ...Show more
From Here, You Can't See Paris by Michael Sanders
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A sweet, leisurely exploration of the life of Les Arques (population 159), a hilltop village in a remote corner of France, untouched by the modern era. It is a story of a dying village's struggle to survive, of a dead artist whose legacy begins its rebirth, and of chef Jacques Ratier and his wife, Noell ...Show more
Nobody in Particular by Cherry Simmonds
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This title is the honest, occasionally tragic and humorous story of what it was like to grow up in Liverpool in the 1950s and '60s, as the youngest child in a large and somewhat eccentric Anglo-Irish family.