The House With All The Lights On: Three generations, one roof, a language of light by Jessica Kirkness
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'If I were to tell you our story in sign language—the story of my grandparents and me—I'd begin with a single finger touching my chest.' Jessica Kirkness has traversed the boundary between deaf and hearing cultures all her life. Her memoir tells the story of her grandparents who grew up deaf in a he ...Show more
A Fortunate Woman - A Country Doctor’s Story by Polly Morland
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
‘Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry’ - Sunday Times ‘Contains a profound mesage for the future at a critical moment for general pratcice and us all’ - TLS A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insi ...Show more
Riverman: An American Odyssey by Ben McGrath
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
‘Brilliant, clear, and humane’ Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love ‘Miraculous and hopeful’ Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here ‘Quietly profound … belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild’ New York Times Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary m ...Show more
Walking Free: The Extraordinary True Story by Munjed Al Muderis; Patrick Weaver (As told to)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theater and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed in front of his staff. ...Show more
The Turning Tide - A Biography of the Irish Sea by Jon Gower
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water 'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle 'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular.'Times Literary Supplement The Turning Tide is a hymn to a sea passage of world-historical importance. ...Show more
Unbreakable by Ronnie O'Sullivan
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Reading this is like watching an O'Sullivan break: hypnotic, dazzling and impossible to tear yourself away from.' - STEPHEN FRY'Besides quite a few laughs, many readers will find recognition, reassurance, remedy and revelation in O'Sullivan's candid story. I highly recommend it.' - THE TIMES---In a car ...Show more
I Don't Need Therapy: (and other lies I've told myself) by Toni Lodge
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A hilarious memoir of home truths and whatever the opposite of 'that girl energy' is, from one half of the hit podcast Toni and Ryan. Most of us tell little white lies all the time. Whether it's 'I'm five minutes away' or 'It must have gone to my spam folder', most of these fibs are harmless. But what i ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Years by Ranulph Fiennes
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
He's climbed Everest not long after a heart bypass operation, he's run seven marathons on seven continents, he's hauled loaded sledges across both polar ice caps and he's circumnavigated the earth...Ran Fiennes truly is the world's greatest explorer, and this book celebrates his 80th birthday by showcas ...Show more
Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty by Alexander Larman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Power and Glory brings us to the dramatic conclusion of Larman's 'Windsors trilogy'. It begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of Windsor's wartime treachery, and ends with the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. In between, it depicts a monarchy - and a country - struggling to c ...Show more
The First Breath: How Modern Medicine Saves the Most Fragile Lives by Olivia Gordon
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The First Breath is the first popular science book about the pioneering fetal and neonatal medicine bringing a new generation into the world--a generation of babies without precedent, who would not have lived if they had been born only a few decades ago. Olivia Gordon explores the female experience of m ...Show more
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Updated and revised to celebrate the author's 75th year by Ranulph Fiennes
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Always the leader and always the best' Bear Grylls 'Fiennes has so much to fit in, it's a wonder to grasp the full breadth of a lifetime of adventuring' - Compass Magazine 'Even readers with a broadly low tolerance for macho heroism will find themselves gripped . . . compelling' - Time Out Sir Ranulph ...Show more
Pardon My French: Food, faux pas and Franglish - one family's riotous year in the south of France by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
At the school gate, when she accidentally kissed one new friend on the nose and called another a 'beautiful man-horse', Rachael realised that small-town France could hardly be more different to beach-side Australia. The smell of cigarettes replaced the tang of bone-broth and sprouted sourdough, the neig ...Show more