Kick - The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK's Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. When Kathleen Kennedy sailed to England after her father had been appointed Ambassador to Great Britain in 1938, her wit, aloofness and sexual ...Show more
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-year-old Story Retold by John Guy
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From the winner of the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award and the Marsh Biography Award John Guy, comes Thomas Becket, a lively and enlightening new book that brings a colossal figure of British history vividly to life. This is the man, not the legend...Thomas Becket lived at the centre of medieval England. ...Show more
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. So much has been written about him, but until now, we've only had Kiedis's songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoiri ...Show more
Have A Little Faith by Mitch Albom
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Will you do my eulogy? With those words, Mitch Albom begins his long-awaited return to non-fiction. His journey to honour the last request of a beloved clergyman ultimately leads him to rekindle his own long-ignored faith. Albom spends years exploring churches and synagogues, the suburbs and the city, t ...Show more
Ukraine Diaries by Andrey Kurkov
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Ukrainian Diaries is acclaimed writer Andrey Kurkov's first-hand account of the crisis in his country. Written from his flat in Kiev, just 500 metres away from Independence Square, Kurkov can smell the burning barricades and hear the sounds of grenades and gunshot. The diaries begin on the first day of ...Show more
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies. In this critically acclaimed, bestselling biography she shares the history of the incredible woman who created the way we look now. Coco Chanel was an extraor ...Show more
I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The extraordinary story of a Palestinian doctor who, despite witnessing the death of three of his daughters in the Israeli incursion into Gaza in January 2009, continued his medical and humanitarian work aimed at bringing the people of the region together in peace.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Few authors can have striven so hard to make themselves professional writers as did George Orwell. As a child he talked of becoming a writer; he wrote for student publications at Eton' whilst serving in the Imperial Police in Burma he sketched out ideas for Burmese Days; on returning to Europe, he spent ...Show more
Helen Kelly - Her Life by Rebecca Macfie
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
When Helen Kelly died on a Wellington spring night in October 2016, with her partner by her side and a bunch of peonies, the first of the season, by her bed, Aotearoa New Zealand lost an extraordinary leader. Kelly was the first female head of the country’s trade union movement, but she was also much mo ...Show more
Nellie: The life and loves of Dame Nellie Melba by Robert Wainwright
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The tumultuous life of Australia's most famous opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba. When most Australians think of Nellie Melba they picture a squarish, late middle-aged woman dressed in furs and large hats, an imperious Dame whose voice ruled the world for three decades and was the inspiration for a peach ...Show more
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives by Christopher Harding
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life ...Show more
Yes, Minister: An Insider's Account of the John Key years by Chris Finlayson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An insightful and entertaining glimpse into what really made the John Key government one of the most successful conservative governments New Zealand has ever seen.