Taking Command by David Richards
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013 he retired after over forty years of service in the British Army and a career that had seen him rise from junior officer with 20 Commando to Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Arme ...Show more
Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Johnny Cash ... Every man could relate to him, no man could be him, and only one man could get inside his head - Robert Hilburn' BONO People don't just listen to Johnny Cash: they believe in him. But no one has told the Man in Black's full story, until now. In Johnny Cash: The Life, Robert Hilburn co ...Show more
An Outback Nurse by Thea Hayes
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Thea Hayes trained as a Nurse in Sydney in 1959. A year later she was catapulted out of the safety of her city life into the unknown world of the Outback.Thea knew nothing of the place she was soon to call home, Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, the second largest property in the world under ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
$59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as ...Show more
The Good Soldier: The Biography of Douglas Haig by Gary Mead
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of the First World War. Haig has frequently been presented as a commander who who sent his troops to slaughter in vast numbers at the Somme in 1916 and at Passchendaele the follow ...Show more
Dick Johnson: The autobiography of a true-blue Aussie sporting legend by Dick Johnson, James Phelps
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is theincredible story of Dick Johnson the Aussie battler who became an all-time V8 great. Ford legend Johnson did not get his break in motorsport until he was famously smashed out by a rock in the 1980 Bathurst 1000. But true to his never-say-die attitude, he went on to establish one of Australia ...Show more
Proud: My Autobiography by Gareth Thomas
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the story of a sporting legend and national hero with a secret that was slowly killing him. Something that might devastate not only his own life but those of his wife, family, friends and team mates. He couldn't know what the consequences would be when the truth came out. The only thing he knew ...Show more
Give Us This Day: A Memoir of Family and Exile by Helena Wisniewska Brow
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In June 1944, when 14-year-old Stefan Wisniewski stood by his mother's dusty Tehran grave, he knew his world was about to change again, forever. Give Us This Day: a Memoir of Family and Exile explores the story of one of the 732 Polish child survivors of wartime Soviet deportation offered unlikely refug ...Show more
Judi: Behind the Scenes by Judi Dench
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An illustrated memoir of one of Britain's greatest and best-loved actors. 'National treasure? I hate that. Too dusty, too in a cupboard, too behind glass, too staid ... What I love is being part of a company. On stage I am not trying to be myself, I'm trying to be someone else, the more unlike me the b ...Show more
Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Life Lessons from an Extraordinary Man by Louis Zamperini
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'IF YOU CAN TAKE IT, YOU CAN MAKE IT' Louis Zamperini lived one of the most amazing lives imaginable. As a young boy he was a troublemaker but his will to succeed drove him on to become an Olympian at the 1936 Games. With the outbreak of war, Louis volunteered for the army and was thrust into the violen ...Show more
Confessions of a Millionaire's Mistress the True Story of a Young Woman, an Illicit Affair and a World of Wealth and Glamour by Ava Reilly
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Ava Reilly first met Hugh, she was shocked at the depth of feeling that she instantly felt. Soon, they had embarked on a passionate, stormy love affair that seemed inescapable.An affair was never something she thought she would have. Never something she believed in or could justify.
The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope by Austen Ivereigh
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Pope Francis was elected in March 2013, he was virtually unknown. He fast captivated the world with his rejection of papal pomp, his love of the poor, his fearless critiques of injustice and corruption, and his far-reaching reforms of the Catholic Church. This is the first intimate, in-depth biogra ...Show more