This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is Britain's favourite (and naughtiest) treasu ...Show more
Missing by Tom Patterson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
He was brilliant and troubled and for thirty-five years he lived alone in the wild... then there was silence Beautifully written and affecting, this is the true story of a young man caught in a world he can't control and how he finds a way to survive. 'This compelling, moving tale of a singular indivi ...Show more
All My Friends Are Invisible by Jonathan Joly
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
*A mesmeric, harrowing and uplifting childhood memoir that will open up much-needed conversations about identity and mental health*It was an ordinary day in 2016. In Gatwick Airport, Jonathan and his wife Anna were having breakfast with their two little children while waiting for their flight to be call ...Show more
Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time by Jennifer Shahade
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
For fans of The Queen's Gambit, this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling the world to compete in a male-dominated sport with the most famous players of all time. Jennifer Shahade, a two-time US Women's Chess Champion, spent her teens and twenties travelling the world playing ...Show more
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lens. Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with other items of great worth - wedding photographs ...Show more
Call Me Red - A Shepherd's Journey by Hannah Jackson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Sunday Times bestseller Lessons to live by, without getting up with the lark Hannah Jackson (aka The Red Shepherdess) grew up in the Wirral, and hadn't set foot on a farm until she was 20-years-old. But she'd always loved animals and on a visit to the Lake District, she saw a lamb being born and had a ...Show more
Buses Are a Comin' - Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person; Richard Rooker
$42.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists--including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of R ...Show more
Rattled by Ellis Gunn
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Rattled tells a frighteningly honest story of what it feels like to be pursued by a stalker.What if your life were suddenly transformed by anxiety and fear? The fear of being alone, the anxiety compelling you to stay in public places and avoid predictable routines. The horrible uncertainty of not knowin ...Show more
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure whose extraordi ...Show more
Speaking In Tongues by Tom Tilley
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When you no longer believe in eternity, every moment counts -- A memoir of breaking free and reinvention From the outside, Tom Tilley's childhood seemed ordinary. The first son of a pastor, he grew up in a beautiful country town where life revolved around football, his loving family and their Pentecosta ...Show more
Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker. Let me tell you a story... When Chloe Hooper's partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she has to find a way to tell their ...Show more
Rebel: My escape from Saudi Arabia to freedom by Rahaf Mohammed
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In January 2019, then 18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed escaped from her family while holidaying in Kuwait. She was fleeing systematic abuse of her human rights as a woman growing up in Saudi Arabia and, specifically, her family's threats to kill her because she desired the freedoms Western women ...Show more