West with the Night by Beryl Markham
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: VMC
At the age of 18, Beryl Markham, then Clutterbuck, was the first woman in Africa to be granted a racehorse trainer's licence; she was still active as a trainer until her death in 1986. She took up flying in 1931, inventing big game hunting by air, and in September 1936 she made world headlines by becomi ...Show more
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Acclaimed biographer Sebba offers the first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the 20th century--and one of the most talked about women of her generation.
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 by Antony Beevor
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad 'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War . . . his fans will love it' - Robert Fox, Evening Standard 'The eye for telling detail whi ...Show more
Bewildered - leaving everything behind for 3000km in the wilds of New Zealand by Laura Waters
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
What would move you to ditch your life and take off into the wild for six months? For Melbourne woman Laura Waters, it took the implosion of a toxic relationship and a crippling bout of anxiety. Armed with a compass, a paper map and as much food as she could carry, she set out to walk the untamed landsc ...Show more
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