Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Gary Shteyngart's loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, or at least an accountant, something their distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and Russian, his mother created the term Failurchka-'Little Failure'-which she applied to her son. With love. Most ...Show more
Bush Nurses by Annabelle Brayley
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
It takes something special to be a bush nurse working in rural and remote Australia. These remarkable women patch people up and keep them alive while waiting for the doctor to arrive. They drive the ambulances, operate the clinics and deliver the babies. They are on call around the clock and there are n ...Show more
The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev: The Story of Lina and Serge Prokofiev by Simon Morrison
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
As heard on Radio 4 Book of the Week. Lina Prokofiev was alone in her Moscow apartment one night when the telephone rang. The caller insisted that she come downstairs to collect a parcel, but when she reached the courtyard she was arrested for treason. First enraptured by the young pianist and rising st ...Show more
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The story of Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, daredevil - and Fascist. In September 1919 Gabriele D'Annunzio, successful poet and occasional politician, declared himself Commandante of the city of Fiume in modern day Croatia. His intention - to establish a utopia based on his fascist and artistic ideals. It w ...Show more
Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software by Vikram Chandra
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a great novelist on his twin obsessions: writing and coding. What is the relationship between the two? Is there such a thing as the sublime in code? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of coding? Vikram Chandra is the award-winning author of two acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories ...Show more
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival by Judith Tebbutt
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali pirates; and of how I made a choice to survive by any and ...Show more
Boy 30529: A Memoir by Felix Weinberg
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
""Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death ... We, the few who survived the war and the majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not have understood terms such as 'holocaust' or 'death march. ...Show more
When Fraser Met Billy by Louise Booth
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Billy the cat was rescued from an abandoned house. Fraser was a two-year-old autistic child with a multitude of problems when he first met Billy at the cat protection shelter. Billy purred, laid his paws across Fraser and they have been inseparable ever since. Slowly but surely Billy has transformed Fra ...Show more
Love in the Outback by Deb Hunt
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The true story of an unlikely romance in the Australian outback. At forty-nine, Deb Hunt stopped dating men. It was just too painful. The men she loved didn't love her back. When she found herself stalking her last boyfriend, who'd become engaged to another woman, Deb knew it was time to make changes. F ...Show more
Women of Spirit by Anne Crawford
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Inspiring true-life stories of women who've grown up connected with the country or who've fallen in love with it or with the men working it. Women who've struggled through bushfires, floods, poverty, discrimination and accidents to come out smiling at the other end. Stories of hardship, triumph, resilie ...Show more
The Fictional Woman by Tara Moss
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the accessible style of Caitlin Moran's How To Be A Woman comes bestselling author Tara Moss's first exciting non-fiction book - a fascinating mix of memoir and social comment.Tara Moss has worn many labels in her time, including 'author', 'model', 'gold-digger', 'commentator', 'inspiration', 'dumb b ...Show more
Robert Plant - A Life by Paul Rees
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Robert Plant is one of the few genuine living rock legends. Frontman of Led Zeppelin, musical innovator and seller of millions of records, Plant has had a profound influence on music for over four decades. But the full account of his life has barely been told ...until now. Robert Plant: A Life is the fi ...Show more