Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work by Kitty Ferguson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable figures of our time - a Cambridge genius who has earned international celebrity and become an inspiration to those who have witnessed his triumph over disability. This is Hawking's life story by Kitty Ferguson, written with help from Hawking himself and his ...Show more
David Jason: The Autobiography by David Jason
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the long-awaited autobiography of one of Britain's best-loved actors. Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early life dodging bombs and bullies, both with impish good timing. Giving up on an unloved career as an electrician, he ...Show more
Brave Girl Eating: The Inspirational True Story of One Family's Battle with Anorexia by Harriet Brown
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the f ...Show more
Willie Apiata VC: the Reluctant Hero by Paul Little
$52.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
Corporal Willie Apiata became the first New Zealander since the Second World War to be awarded the Commonwealth's highest military award for his actions with the NZ SAS in Afghanistan. From his early life in small town East Coast New Zealand to his actions in the deserts of Afghanistan, this is his stor ...Show more
Eddie Jones - Rugby Maverick by Mike Colman
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The first biography of the enigmatic coach who has completely transformed the England rugby team. After Eddie Jones began coaching England's rugby team in November 2015, they won 22 of their next 23 matches. The side that limped out of the last World Cup was thoroughly revitalised. But who is the uncon ...Show more
In Extremis - The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ** 'It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.' Marie Colvin, 2001 Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a trou ...Show more
Child's War by Bihet Molly
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
MollyA fs touching account of life in Guernsey during the German Occupation brings events of the Second World War to life through the eyes of a young child. The Channel Islands were the only British territory to be occupied during the Second World War and many Islanders were immediately imprisoned. Moll ...Show more
Vita and Virginia: A Double Life by Sarah Gristwood
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world's most famous writers - a leading light of literary modernism and feminism - and a British icon. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sa ...Show more
All My Friends Are Invisible by Jonathan Joly
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
*A mesmeric, harrowing and uplifting childhood memoir that will open up much-needed conversations about identity and mental health*It was an ordinary day in 2016. In Gatwick Airport, Jonathan and his wife Anna were having breakfast with their two little children while waiting for their flight to be call ...Show more
Rattled by Ellis Gunn
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Rattled tells a frighteningly honest story of what it feels like to be pursued by a stalker.What if your life were suddenly transformed by anxiety and fear? The fear of being alone, the anxiety compelling you to stay in public places and avoid predictable routines. The horrible uncertainty of not knowin ...Show more
Rebel: My escape from Saudi Arabia to freedom by Rahaf Mohammed
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In January 2019, then 18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed escaped from her family while holidaying in Kuwait. She was fleeing systematic abuse of her human rights as a woman growing up in Saudi Arabia and, specifically, her family's threats to kill her because she desired the freedoms Western women ...Show more
Four Seasons with a Grumpy Goat : How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love Life on the Farm by Carol Altmann
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A tree change is about finding a simpler life, right? And that's what Carol Altmann and her partner were seeking when they moved to a hobby farm in Tasmania. But things go wrong in a surprising number of ways as they try to adapt to life on the farm surrounded by an odd assortment of animals - a goat t ...Show more