Sultan: A Memoir by Wasim Akram, Gideon Haigh
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket. For twenty years, Wasim Akram let his cricket do the talking – his electrifying left-arm pace, his explosive left-handed striking, his leadership and his inspiration. For ...Show more
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment In the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in a cheap hotel in Wiesbaden, unable to leave until ...Show more
Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Sold into the Sex Trade by Sophie Hayes
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at all... When everything seemed to be falling apart in Sophie's life, she was thankful for her friend Kas, who was always at the end of a phone, ready to listen and to offer comfort and advice.Her father's cold ...Show more
Theroux The Keyhole: When the World Went Weird and so Did I by Louis Theroux
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Come round to Louis Theroux's house, where the much-loved documentary-maker finds himself in unexpected danger . . .Louis's latest TV series about weirdness - the one involving the American far right, home-grown jihadis, and SoundCloud rappers - has been unexpectedly derailed by the onset of a global pa ...Show more
Invention: A Life by James Dyson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life, one of the year's most relevant and revelatory business books (The Wall St ...Show more
README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of ...Show more
The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to Be Free by Andy West
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
‘Tense and intimate… an education’ Geoff Dyer ‘Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending’ Lenny Henry ‘Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving’ Terry Waite __________ Can someone in prison be more free than someone outside? Would we ever be good if we never felt shame? What makes a person worthy of ...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.
Latitude: The Astonishing Journey To Discover the Shape of the Earth by Nick Crane
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Told for the very first time, this is the true story of the adventure that shaped the world . . .'A thrilling story of courage, survival and science. It's an extraordinary, visceral and vivid read' Geographical Magazine________Three hundred years ago no one knew the true shape of the world.It wasn't a s ...Show more
No Country Woman: A memoir of not belonging by Zoya Patel
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I was born in a hospital in Suva, Fiji. I can't recall ever seeing the building on my trips back to the city, first as a child or later as an adult. I imagine it in shades of blue and brown, the plastic waiting room chairs covered in the fine film of moisture that creeps over everything there. It is no ...Show more
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
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Unabridged! When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering affects of oxygen deprivation. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous decent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers wer ...Show more