Saving Private Sarbi: The True Story of Australia's Canine War Hero by Sandra Lee
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Saving Private Sarbi is the dramatic and heart-warming true story of a scruffy black Labrador-cross trained by the Australian Army as an explosives detection dog for the most dangerous combat mission imaginable. This canine warrior went missing in action following a historic battle between the elite SAS ...Show more
How Now Brown Frau by Merridy Eastman
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A poignant, revealing and hilarious memoir about what happened when a former Playschool presenter (and brothel receptionist) woke up one morning in Munich four months pregnant, without a word of German under her belt, and surrounded by Bavarians! It's a tale about friendship, marriage and motherhood and ...Show more
What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1968, at the age of 22 Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military objective other than kill ratios and body counts, what he experienced over the next thirteen months in t ...Show more
Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made by Richard Toye
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.' These notorious words, spoken by Churchill in 1942, encapsulate his image as an imperial die-hard, implacably opposed to colonial freedom. A reputation that has prevailed, and which Churchill ...Show more
Mandela : The Authorised Biography by Anthony Sampson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson's remarkable book has now been updated by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby. Over a decade after his presidency of South Africa, Nelson Mandela remains an inspirational figure to millions of people - ...Show more
The Letters of Noel Coward by Noel Coward
$45.00 NZD
$49.99 (9% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Diaries, Letters and Essays | Reading Level: very good
With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished - this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure. Coward's multi-faceted talent as an actor, writer, composer, producer and even as a war-time spy, brought him into close contact with the great, the good an ...Show more
American Desperado: My Life as a Cocaine Cowboy by Evan Wright
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The incredible memoirs of the man who became with Pablo Escobar the No.1 supplier of cocaine in the US, written with the bestselling author of Generation Kill American Desperado is possibly the most jaw-dropping, event-filled, adrenaline-soaked criminal autobiography ever written. Like a real-life Scarf ...Show more
Under The Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin by Bruce Chatwin
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Bruce Chatwin is one of the most significant British novelists and travel writers of our time. His books have become modern-day classics which defy categorisation, inspired by and reflecting his incredible journeys. Tragically, Chatwin's compelling narrative voice was cut off just as he had found it. 'B ...Show more
Le Freak : An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny by Nile Rodgers
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Nile Rodgers is a founding member of the band Chic, and one of the world's most successful music producers. He wrote 'We are Family' for Sister Sledge and 'I'm Coming Out' for Diana Ross, and produced two of the most popular albums of all time - Madonna's 'Like a Virgin' and David Bowie's 'Let's Dance'. ...Show more
The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in America, she came to England as the Duchess of Marlborou ...Show more
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Kamila Sidiqi and all the women of Kabul saw their lives transformed. Overnight, they were banned from schools and offices and even forbidden from leaving their front doors on their own. The economy collapsed and young men left the city in search of work and secur ...Show more
My Week with Marilyn by Colin Clark
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Now a major film, starring Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne and Kenneth Branagh. This edition combines Colin Clark's acclaimed The Prince, the Showgirl and Me and My Week with Marilyn. In 1956, fresh from Oxford, the 23-year-old Colin Clark (brother of maverick Tory MP and diarist Alan) worked as a hum ...Show more