Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days by Victoria Bruce
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"I'm here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no matter what's happened to me, I'm not ready to lie down and die." In 2021, Victoria Bruce quit her corporate job, packed up her life and embarked on Te Araroa trail with her seven-year-old daughter, Emilie ...Show more
Big Mouth by Matt Preston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A rock n roll memoir of death, guns and the occasional scandal. For a man who has been in the public eye for a decade or more, Matt Preston has been very quiet about his past and private life. Now, in Big Mouth, he opens up for the first time in a story that, like Matt himself, is joyous, funny and lar ...Show more
The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Phillip Maisel OAM was born in August 1922, in Vilna, Lithuania. When the Germans arrived in Vilna in 1941, Phillip's life changed dramatically. He survived two years in a squalid, overcrowded Jewish ghetto, before enduring multiple Nazi labour and concentration camps. Phillip was liberated in 1945 whil ...Show more
One of Them by Shaneel Lal
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
'Shaneel is not like anyone you have ever met. An absolute must-read.' - Ruby TuiWhat would you do if you were told by the people you loved the most that the way you were born was evil and wrong?For Shaneel Lal, this was their reality from the time they were five. Growing up in a tiny, traditional villa ...Show more
The Twat Files: A hilarious sort-of memoir of mistakes, mishaps and mess-ups by Dawn French
$42.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last sixty years. Nincompoop. Nitwit. Lunatic. Dork. All lovely . . . but . . . nah . . . I prefer Twat. It's neat and it's accurate somehow. Because, yes, I am a Twat . . . sometimes. Aren't we all? THE TWAT ...Show more
Clanlands in New Zealand - Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under by Sam Heughan; Graham McTavish; Charlotte Reather
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Buckle up, grab a dram, and get ready for another unforgettable wild ride. They're back! Stars of Outlander, Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish are no strangers to the rugged beauty of Scotland. But this time they're setting their sights on a new horizon: New Zealand. Join our intrepid Scotsmen on their la ...Show more
A Brilliant Life : My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust by Rachelle Unreich
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed - which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more
Karma: The definitive autobiography by Boy George
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The definitive autobiography from Culture Club frontman and LGBTQ+ icon, Boy George. Karma is the definitive autobiography from music icon, Boy George - the Grammy, Brit and Ivor Novello award-winning lead singer of 80s pop/reggae band, Culture Club, since its inception in 1981.Boy George has led a colo ...Show more
Prague in My Bones by Jindra Tichy
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Jindra Tichý has a fascinating story to tell – one of exile and survival, of distance and painful longing. Czech born and bred, she was a lecturer in philosophy at Charles University in Prague when the country was invaded by Soviet troops in August 1968. In 1969 she was forced to flee her homeland with ...Show more
The Reluctant Carer by The Reluctant Carer
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Hilarious, bitter, poignant and profound, this is the human condition laid brilliantly bare, like an existential soap opera - only with more laughs.' - Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan It was the kind of phone call we all dread. Your elderly father has been admitted to hospital. He's not well and he ...Show more
Broken Girl: A true story by Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT PENGUIN BLOOM Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed by a speeding police car.A year later, following dark months in a coma and painful rehabi ...Show more