Fairway to Hell by Carl Hiaasen
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Every weekend, thousands of otherwise rational men and women are cursing, kicking at divots and smashing expensively milled putters against the trunks of immovable hardwood trees. These players go home in a toxic funk to inflict gloom upon their loved ones until the following Saturday, when they rush b ...Show more
I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia by Nina Lugovskaya (tr from Russian Andrew Bromfield)
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Does that boy like me? Why are my sisters so mean? Does anyone think I'm pretty? Will my father be arrested? These were the everyday concerns of thirteen-year-old Moscow schoolgirl Nina Lugovskaya, who began to write a diary in 1932. Her indignant outbursts against the brutal raids and purges of Stalin' ...Show more
Forever Today by Deborah Wearing
26.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Clive Wearing has one of the most extreme cases of amnesia ever known. In 1985, a virus completely destroyed a part of his brain essential for memory, leaving him trapped in a limbo of the constant present. Every conscious moment is for him as if he has just come round from a long coma, an endlessly rep ...Show more
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. (trans Adriana Hunter) by Catherine Millet
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Written in spare, elegant prose, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. is the autobiography of a well-known Parisian art critic who likes to spend nights in the singles clubs of Paris and in the Bois de Boulogne where she has sex with a succession of anonymous men. Unlike many contemporary women writers, ther ...Show more
The Woman I Was Born to be by Susan Boyle
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In April 2009, a modest middle-aged woman from a village in Scotland was catapulted to global fame when the YouTube video of her audition for "Britain's Got Talent" touched the hearts of millions all over the world. From singing karaoke in local pubs to live performance with an eighty-piece orchestra in ...Show more
Eight Lives Down by Chris Hunter
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'If fate is against me and I'm killed, so be it, but make it quick and painless. If I'm wounded, don't let me be crippled. But above all don't let me fuck up the task.'So goes the bomb technician's prayer before every bomb he defuses.For Chris Hunter, it is a prayer he says many times over his four mont ...Show more
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
29.99 NZD
39.99 (25% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, three young Palestinian men ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes, from which they and their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. One cousin had the door slamm ...Show more
Out of Iraq by Lewis Alsamari
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Aged 17, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into the Iraqi army. Things went from bad to worse once his superiors discovered his ability to speak English, and Lewis was selected for Saddam's elite, top secret intelligence service, an offer he literally could not refuse. This left him with only one option - ...Show more
Madonna by Lucy O'Brien
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Madonna is the biggest female pop star in the world yet there is no serious biography of her, and no biography at all by a woman. Existing books are either gossipy style manuals or rehashes of press cuttings and they all end in 2001 with Madonna's marriage to Guy Ritchie. Yet her story hardly ends there ...Show more
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'You are here for the rest of your life. Do you understand? You are not leaving Iran. You are here until you die.' Betty Mahmoody and her husband, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody ('Moody'), came to Iran from the USA to meet Moody's family. With them was their four-year-old daughter, Mahtob. Appalled by the sq ...Show more
The View from the Summit by Sir Edmund Hillary
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has, for the first time, gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into one volume. But there is more to Ed Hillary than thi ...Show more
The House by the Dvina by Eugenie Fraser
29.99 NZD
33.00 (9% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
A unique and moving account of life in Russia before, during and immediately after the Revolution, The House by the Dvina is the fascinating story of two families, separated in culture and geography, but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage. It includes episodes as romantic and dramatic as any ...Show more