Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
New York Times bestselling author and Nashville legend Loretta Lynn tells the story of her rise from deep poverty in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, to the top of the male-dominated country music industry. Reissued for the 40th Anniversary of the Oscar-winning, Sissy Spacek-starring film of the same n ...Show more
Masters of the Air: How The Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine by Donald L. Miller
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Seconds after Brady's plane was hit, the Hundredth's entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes that flew parallel'Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain's Lancaster comrades, who helped to ...Show more
My Mother and Other Secrets by Wendyl Nissen
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Uncovering old family secrets leads Wendyl Nissen to a better understanding of her mother.
Sharon Stone - The Beauty of Living Twice by Sharon Stone
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life, and the slow road back to wholeness and health. In an industry that doesn't accept failure, in a world where too many voices are silenced, Stone found the power to return, the courage to speak up, and the will to mak ...Show more
Inventory Of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From one of our most iconic writers, a luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure, loss, and the banks of the Nile. Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English col ...Show more
The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Henriette Roosenburg
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
How do you start a journey when the roads are blocked? Who can you trust in a country where the Nazi regime has only just fallen? "This is the story of the liberation of four Dutch political prisoners at the end of World War II, and about their trek home to Holland..." So, modestly, begins this firstha ...Show more
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism by Naoki Higashida
$21.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The No. 1 Sunday Times and internationally bestselling account of life as a child with autism, now an award-winning documentary film. 'It will stretch your vision of what it is to be human' Andrew Solomon, The Times What is it like to have autism? How can we know what a person - especially a child - wit ...Show more
The Illustrated Letters of the Brontes: The Letters, Diaries and Writings of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte by Juliet Gardiner
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Illustrated Letters of the Brontes is the story both of the real world of the Brontes at Haworth Parsonage, their home on the edge of the lonely Yorkshire moors, and of the imaginary worlds they spun for themselves in their novels and poetry. Wherever possible, their story is told using their own wo ...Show more
The Last Princess by Matthew Dennison
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Queen Victoria's favourite child - the true story of a royal mother-daughter relationship that changed history Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was four and as Matthew Dennison relates Victoria came to depend on her youngest daughter absol ...Show more
Listening to the Animals by Fitzpatrick Noel
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
THE MASSIVE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.A powerful, heart-warming and inspiring memoir from the UK's most famous and beloved vet, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick - star of the Channel 4 series The Supervet. Growing up on the family farm in Ballyfin, Ireland, Noel's childhood was spent tending to the cattle ...Show more
Speak, Okinawa - A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran--and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met ...Show more
Niki Lauda: The Biography by Maurice Hamilton
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020 'The definitive biography of a racing driver who won three World Championship titles' Matt Dickinson, The Times, Sports Books of the Year 'Thoroughly gripping...a fitting tribute' Justin Marozzi, Sunday Times Niki Lauda was one of the gr ...Show more