Fear: Our Ultimate Challenge by Ranulph Fiennes
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. He's crossed both Poles on foot. He's been a member of the SAS and fought a bloody guerrilla war in Oman. And yet he confesses that his fear of heights is so great that he'd rather send his wife up a ladder to clean the gutters than do it hims ...Show more
Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors by Neil Corcoran
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 2016, Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature "For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". This collection of essays by leading poets and critics examines Dylan's poetic genius, as well as his astounding cultural and musical influence In "Ballad of a ...Show more
The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discovery by David L. Mearns
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The underwater worlds of past and present collide in the depths of the ocean in this gripping and suspenseful narrative by David Mearns, a true expert on the mysteries of the deep sea.' CLIVE CUSSLER David Mearns has found some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. His deep-water searc ...Show more
The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris by Tom Sancton
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman, and the tenth wealthiest in the entire world. But at 93, she's embroiled in incredible controversy - controversy so great it almost took down the French government. It's all become Europe's biggest scandal in years, uncovering a shadowy corporate history ...Show more
Beta: Quiet Girls Can Run the World by Rebecca Holman
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
What does success look like? 5AM conference calls and late nights in the office? Winning every argument in the office and always getting your own way? What does a successful woman look like? The shoulder-pad wearing Alpha? The dogmatist who rules with an iron fist? The reality is far more nuanced. Yet w ...Show more
Forty Autumns: A family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the ...Show more
Slow: Live Life Simply by Brooke Mcalary
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From the creator of the award-winning Slow Home podcast comes Slow--the perfect companion on the long road to living a simpler and more fulfilled life. Once upon a time, Brooke McAlary thought she was close to having it all. Married to a wonderful man, mother to a lively young daughter and pregnant for ...Show more
Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter by Barbara Learning
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the incandescent life-force of the Kennedy family. The daughter of the American ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Kick swept into Britain's aristocracy like a fresh wind on a sweltering summer day. Kick was the girl whom all the boys fel I in love with, the girl who rem ...Show more
Little Me The A-Z of Matt Lucas by Matt Lucas
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the story of little me, from pudgy, awkward child to pudgy, slightly less awkward adult - via school musicals, adolescent angst, stand-up,Shooting Stars,Little Britain,Doctor Who, love, loss, wigs and giant pink babygros. And, in case your attention span is as short as mine, it comes in a handy ...Show more
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar by Virginia Vallejo
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Now a major motion picture Pablo Escobar was one of the most terrifying criminal minds of the last century. In the decade before his death in 1993, he reigned as the head of a multinational cocaine industry and brought the Colombian state to its knees, killing thousands of politicians, media person ...Show more
The Best of Us: A Memoir by Joyce Maynard
$38.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott) In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true part ...Show more
Finding My Virginity by Richard Branson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
After creating 12 different billion-dollar businesses and breaking dozens of world records, wouldn't you think you'd done it all? Not Sir Richard Branson. Having brought the Virgin brand to all corners of the globe, he's now reaching out to the stars as he prepares to launch commercial space travel with ...Show more