Nowhere's Child: The Inspiring Story of How One Woman Survived Hitler's Breeding Camps and Found an Irish Home by Kari Rosvall
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Up until the age of 64, much of Kari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery. Then, one day, a letter arrived through the post . . . In it was a small black-and-white photograph of Kari as a young baby, the first she had ever seen. Kari was to finally discover the dark secret of her conception: Sh ...Show more
Born to Fight by Mark Hunt
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Raw, confronting and honest, UFC champion Mark Hunt's inspiring autobiography shows it is possible to defy the odds and carve a better life. Born into a Mormon Samoan family, Hunt details his harrowing early life, his troubled teen years, and his angry youth with no apparent future. After being plucked ...Show more
The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
After Ann Walmsley was mugged near her house in Hampstead, she found she was unable to walk alone down the street and it shook her belief in the fundamental goodness of people. In Canada a few years later, when her friend Carol asked her to participate in a bold new venture in a men's medium security pr ...Show more
Hell on High Seas by Rob Mundle
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Hell on High Seas' chronicles some of the most remarkable stories of survival and daring that the world's oceans have hosted over the past half century. Bizarre, unbelievable accounts of people who went missing and were given up for dead, only to miraculously reappear, apparition-like, months later. ...Show more
The Scarlet Sisters: My Nanna's Story of Secrets and Heartache on the Banks of the River Thames by Helen Batten
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Oh my goodness - another girl Mrs Swain!' Clara's normal iron composure broke and she screamed, 'No! That's not the bloody deal!' And that is how my nanna, Bertha Swain, entered the world. When Helen Batten's marriage breaks down, she starts on a journey of discovery into her family's past and the myst ...Show more
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District (HB) by James Rebanks
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From James Rebanks, the Herdwick Shepherd, comes The Shepherd's Life, a story of the Lake District and its people which could redefine the literature of rural life Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd ...Show more
Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Personal History on the Road and Off the Tracks by Victor Maymudes
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A "Los Angeles Times" Best seller!August 2014 marks 50 years since Bob Dylan released his fourth album, "Another Side of Bob Dylan." Recorded in one night, in the middle of a turbulent year in his life, the music marked a departure from Dylan's socially-conscious folk songs and began his evolution towar ...Show more
Woody by David Evanier
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In this first biography of Woody Allen in over a decade, David Evanier discusses key movies, plays and prose as well as Allen's personal life. Evanier tackles the themes that Allen has spent a lifetime sorting through in art: morality, sexuality, Judaism, the eternal struggle of head and heart. Woody wi ...Show more
The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers by Nicholas Irving; Gary Brozek
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From a place you will not see, comes a sound you will not hear . . .Groundbreaking, thrilling and revealing,The Reapertells the incredible true story of the legendary Nicholas Irving, and his journey from wayward Maryland kid to the 3rd Ranger Battalion's deadliest Master Sniper. From the brotherhood an ...Show more
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon - and writing. As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thou ...Show more
Strong Looks Better Naked (HB) by Khloe Kardashian
$46.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
THE ONLY OFFICIAL KHLOÉ KARDASHIAN BOOKKhloé Kardashian shares her secrets for finding strength of body, heart, mind, and soul with inspirational, revealing stories of her own struggles with weight, relationships, and her self-image.In a culture that worships skinny, Khloé Kardashian writes with passion ...Show more
Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 by Iris Murdoch
$70.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real'. This selection of Iris Murdoch's most interesting and important letters gives us a living portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. Here for the first time is Murdoch in her own words ...Show more