Much Ado About Shakespeare by Donovan Bixley
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
There has never been a period when Shakespeare was out of fashion. In his lifetime he was incredibly successful, and soon after his death his works were published to the world. Within these pages you will find a new interpretation of Shakespeare's stages, a play on words, which sheds light on the colour ...Show more
Not Right in the Head: How One Family Laughed Their Way Through Alzheimer's by Michelle Wyatt
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A light-hearted, heart-warming account of how one family faced Alzheimer's and how the almost comical events within the secure walls of the nursing home made them realize that humor was the only way through. Michelle Wyatt's mum always joked with the family that if she ever developed Alzheimer's like he ...Show more
The Shearers by Evan McHugh
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"For much of its history Australia has been described as riding on the sheep's back . . . but if the country rode on anyone's back, it was on the aching, creaking, flexing spines of Australian shearers.' Armed with their blades, a sense of adventure and a relentless work ethic, shearers have been a fund ...Show more
My Father's Fortune : A Life by Michael Frayn
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. In this book he sets out to rediscover that lost land before all trace of it finally disappears beyond recall. As he tries to see it through the eyes his parents and t ...Show more
Keep Clear: My Adventures with Asperger's by Tom Cutler
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
It is only after a crack-up, at the age of 55, that Tom Cutler gets the diagnosis that allows him to make sense of everything that's come before, including his weird obsessions with road-sign design, magic tricks, spinning tops, and Sherlock Holmes. The final realisation that he has Asperger's allows a ...Show more
Letter to My Younger Self: 100 Inspiring People on the MomentsThat Shaped Their Lives by Jane Graham (Editor)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
From The Big Issue's popular section, this collection features 100 remarkable people from the worlds of entertainment, politics, food, sport and business writing letters to their younger selves.
Remembering Bob by Sue Pieters-Hawke (Editor); Louise Swinn (Editor)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Bob Hawke's death in May 2019 sparked national mourning across the country as we remembered just how important Bob had been in the shaping of modern Australia. In an age when political personas have become increasingly formulaic and predictable, Bob was a man of glorious contradictions. He was a Rhodes ...Show more
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground by Justus Rosenberg
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
99-year-old literature professor Justus Rosenberg escaped the Holocaust and spent four daring years in the French Underground during World War II. Now he finally writes his own unforgettable epic. "A gripping memoir from an Eastern European Jew who fought in the French Resistance. ... The narrative ...Show more
The Man Who Was Saturday - The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave by Patrick Bishop
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of Britain's most remarkable 20th century figures. Airey Neave was ...Show more
The Millionaire Castaway by David Glasheen with Neil Bramwell
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Dave Glasheen’s life began spiralling out of control after he lost his family’s vast fortune in the stock market crash of 1987. After a series of catastrophes, he needed to take drastic measures to restore himself. Opting out of the rat race, he cast himself away to a deserted island off the north-east ...Show more
The Divorce Diaries by Sarah Quigley
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Funny, honest, confronting, wise, this is a compelling and bitter-sweet true story of breaking up and breaking through. 'I hear you're divorced?' a friend greets me. 'Congratulations!' The Divorce Diaries outlines the difficult and often heart-breaking process of leaving a marriage and beginning again. ...Show more