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
The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark by Meryl Gordon
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Born in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her family's 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews Clark, was a copper magnate, the second richest man in American, and not above bribing his way into the Senate. Huguette attended the ...Show more
So, Anyway...: The Autobiography by John Cleese
$27.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Read by John Cleese with an introduction by Michael Palin. This is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter?s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five ...Show more
Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire by John Man
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the 12th century, he is the Islamic world's preeminent hero. Ruthless in defence of his faith, brilliant in leadership, he also possessed qualities that won admiration f ...Show more
Goodbye East End: An Evacuee's Story
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
At the start of World War 2, when Hitler's bombs threatened to rain down hell, eight-year-old David Merron was taken from the heart of his close-knit Jewish community in London's East End and evacuated to the safety of the English countryside. Transplanted into an alien world, adrift from his nurturing ...Show more