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
Emma and I by Sheila Hocken
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'All I had to do was go out of our front gate, tell Emma to turn right to the top of the road, a main road, turn right again, go straight to the bottom, turn left and ask Emma to find the first gate. So off we went a Twenty minutes after setting out, we were standing in the porch and I was reaching for ...Show more
Paramedico: Adventures by Ambulance by Benjamin Gilmour
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'As you read this, more than a hundred thousand ambulance medics across the planet are responding to emergencies. They are scrambling under crashed cars, carrying the sick down flights of stairs, resuscitating near-dead husbands at the feet of hysterical wives and stemming the blood-flow of gunshot vict ...Show more
Queen Elizabeth II by Ammonite Press
$44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a unique collection of 250 photographs celebrating the life and long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. 2012 marks the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. New in paperback, this compact edition - with the same extent as the hardback! - is a lovely gift book offering fascinating insight. HRH Queen E ...Show more
Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War by Giles Milton
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A powerful story of a young man conscripted into Hitler's army and a family left behind, a sympathetic view of life from the other side. The Aichele family were decent, cultured, peace-loving Germans trying their hardest not to get swept up in the madness of Hitler's Third Reich. But by the time war cam ...Show more
We Bought a Zoo: the Amazing True Story of a Broken down Zoo, and the 200 Animals That Changed a Family Forever by Benjamin Mee
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A film tie-in edition to 20th Century Fox's film adaptation of the heart-warming international bestseller starring Scarlett Johansson and Matt Damon and directed by Oscar-winning director Cameron Crowe. A few years ago, Ben and his wife, Katherine, sold their small flat in Primrose Hill and moved to Fra ...Show more
Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story of a Belfast Paperboy Coming to Terms with the Troubles by Tony Macaulay
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
It's Belfast, 1975. The city lies under the dark cloud of the Troubles, and hatred fills the air like smoke. But Tony Macaulay has just turned twelve and he's got a new job. He's going to be a paperboy. And come rain or shine - or bombs and mortar - he will deliver!