Story of Alice; Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
$46.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage - a short cut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject: of Charles Dodgson, the quiet academic, and his second ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again!' When Kat ...Show more
The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books by John Carey
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship ...Show more
Rescue Pilot - Cheating the Sea by Jerry Grayson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot to ever serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. For the Navy's Search and Rescue pilots, getting to work is both an adventure and a ...Show more
A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing by Anna Thomasson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of fifty-one, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a nineteen-year-old art student, life was just beginning. Together, they embarked on an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. Gradually ...Show more
Four Sisters:the Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters of the l ...Show more
Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al-Qaeda by Morten Storm
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
He was the Western convert who would plunge deep inside al-Qaeda. He named his first son Osama after 9/11 and became a Jihadist. But then - after a sudden loss of faith - Morten Storm made a life-changing decision. He became a double agent and joined the CIA, MI6 and MI5. Filled with hair-raising close ...Show more
Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing that Changed a Child's Life by Rupert Isaacson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Heart-breaking, uplifting and full of adventure, The Long Ride Home is the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller The Horse Boy. Rowan came back from the shamans in Mongolia a changed boy. The three most debilitating effects of his autism - his incontinence, his endless tantruming, and his ...Show more
Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it beforeA French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became a teenage warrior, leading an army to victory against the English. Eventually captured and ...Show more
If Oceans Were Ink .. Heart of the Koran by Carla Power
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her long-time friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Their friendship-between a secular American and a madrasa - trained sheik ...Show more
Shining: The Story of a Lucky Man by Abdi Aden
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: General Adult
A remarkably warm-hearted, uplifting and inspiring story of one boy's survival against the odds. Abdi's world fell apart when he was only fifteen and Somalia's vicious civil war hit Mogadishu. Unable to find his family and effectively an orphan, he fled with some sixty others,heading to Kenya. On the wa ...Show more
In the Skin of a Jihadist: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks by Anna Erelle
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Twenty year-old Melanie, a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an Islamist brigade on Facebook. In forty-eight hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her day and night, urges her to marry him, join him in Syria to enjoy a life of paradise - and join his jihad. Anna Erelle is the undercov ...Show more