A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and His Imperfect Human
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Peter was a confirmed loner and cat hater, until he was given a small, grey (and impeccably handsome) kitten with folded ears by his then girlfriend. The girlfriend went but Norton stayed - in fact, he and Peter became inseparable. Trotting along beside him down the street, having his own chair in resta ...Show more
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran; Nicky Harman (Translator)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is made up of the stories of Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them, and also brings us the voices of some adoptive mothers from different parts of the world. These are stories which Xinran could not bring herself to tell previously - because ...Show more
Defending the Guilty: Truth and Lies in the Criminal Courtroom by Alex McBride
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Every day, criminal barrister Alex McBride stands up in court and attempts to save people from conviction, prison, even a lifetime behind bars. Sometimes it's a hopeless case. Sometimes he has the chance to right a wrong. But mostly his clients are just plain guilty. In Defending the Guilty, McBride tak ...Show more
Rough Diamonds and Real Gems by R.M. Winn
$29.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This inspiring collection features nine captivating stories about ordinary bush men and women who lead extraordinary lives. There's the island cattleman who swims his herd past toothy sharks and beady-eyed crocs; the pineapple grower who builds a stone church for his community; the timber worker who be ...Show more
Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated bureaucrat or serial political killer, but on a fuller ...Show more
Last Dog on the Hill by Steve Duno
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The story of a Rottweiler-cross called Lou who was bred as a guard dog by drug smugglers but by dint of a superior intelligence and good luck led an extraordinarily varied life as companion to Steve Duno and friend to countless others both human and canine.
Parky: My Autobiography by Michael Parkinson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
All Michael Parkinson really wanted to do was play cricket for Yorkshire and England. However, he soon realised that to be paid to watch films, football and cricket would be the best way to spend life, and he became a journalist. Television beckoned and for three decades Parkinson interviewed the movers ...Show more
Rifling Through My Drawers by Clarissa Dickson Wright
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
With her inimitable wit and outspoken views, Clarissa Dickson Wright opens her diary and takes us on a journey around Britain with this unrivalled collection of stories and anecdotes from her ever-eventful life. As celebrated cook and champion of the countryside, Clarissa's year includes being propositi ...Show more
A Gambling Man - Charles II and The Restoration by Jenny Uglow
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship fled wi ...Show more
Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception, 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the story of how the British really won two world wars - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and bluffing their way out of trouble. Pretend German radio stations broadcast outrageous British propaganda in German. British geniuses broke German secret codes and eavesdropped on their messages. Ev ...Show more
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1 ...Show more
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen by Giles Tremlett
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents, Isabella and Ferdinand, the joint-rulers of Spain who had dri ...Show more