Marching Powder by Rusty Young
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs and corruption to come out on top.Thomas found himself in a bizarre world, the prison reflecting all that i ...Show more
Starting At Zero: His Own Story by Jimi Hendrix
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
It took just four years in the spotlight for Jimi Hendrix to become an international cultural icon. The sheer impact and originality of his music and his unique mastery of the guitar placed him for ever amongst musical giants. But what of the man behind the public image? Modest and intensely private by ...Show more
I'll Never Write My Memoirs by Grace Jones
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Born in 1948 into a family of ministers in Kingston, Jamaica, the statuesque and strikingly beautiful Grace Jones lived with her family in Syracuse, NY, before launching a career as a model in New York City. Gaining fame as the cover girl for such publications as Vogue and Elle, Jones's flamboyant look ...Show more
Neil Armstrong a life of flight by Jay Barbree
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The intimate, definitive biography of Neil Armstrong's inspiring life story written by one of America's great space journalists. Everything written about Armstrong's life and flights has been from the outside looking in; Jay Barbree is the only person Neil Armstrong trusted to share close personal detai ...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
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In this sequel to Costa Biography Award Winning Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill writes vivaciously, poignantly, and with extraordinary clarity about what really matters in the end, from the remarkable vantage point of her late nineties. Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no ...Show more
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier Life by Arianna Huffington
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In Thrive, Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post and one of the most influential women in the world, has written a passionate call to arms, looking to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world. She likens our drive for money and power to two legs of ...Show more
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Bronte's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind th ...Show more
The "South Bank Show": Final Cut by Melvyn Bragg
$29.99 NZD
Category: Film, TV & Theatre
What drives a musician to write extraordinary songs? How do writers create their worlds? How does an actor achieve greatness? For over thirty years of The South Bank Show, Melvyn Bragg has interviewed many of the greatest cultural icons of our age. These interviews offer revelatory insights into the liv ...Show more
Bundles of Joy: Two Thousand Miracles. One Unstoppable Manchester Midwife by Linda Fairley
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The second book from Sunday Times bestselling author Linda Fairley. 'No matter how many babies I deliver, each and every one is a miracle, connecting me to the world like nothing else, reminding me that we are all equal in the beginning, and in the end. It's a great leveller, childbirth.' It's January 1 ...Show more
No Easy Day: The Only First Hand Account of the Navy SEAL Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer
$37.00 NZD
Category: Military History
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountai ...Show more
It's All About Treo: Life and War with the World's Bravest Dog by David Heyhoe
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the incredible true story of the unbreakable bond forged between Treo, the world's most highly decorated dog, and his handler Sgt. Dave Heyhoe, whilst doing the most dangerous job on earth - sniffing out bombs in Afghanistan. Dave, known to his fellow soldiers as 'the Dog Whisperer' and Treo wer ...Show more