Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
$54.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books. In this new biography, best-selling author Paula Byrne (bestselling author of Perdita, Mad World) explores th ...Show more
Coming Up Roses by Cath Kidston
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
As the company celebrates its twentieth birthday, Cath Kidston shares the story of how her idea for modern vintage came about, how the business was born and the journey she and the company have taken over the past two decades. Cath tells of her experiences, both good and bad, and gives an insight in to ...Show more
Let Me Tell You a Story: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood by Renata Calverley
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Przemysl, Poland, 1939. Two-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the middle of the night and bundled into the basement. The peacock quilt she is wrapped in reminds her of a story about a giant who guards a mysterious place called the Underworld. She drifts back to sleep as the sound of thunder rag ...Show more
In Stockmen's Footsteps by Jane Grieve
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Jane Grieve was born and raised on a farm on the Darling Downs in Queensland. She grew up with the wind in her hair and the rich black Darling Downs soil between her barefoot toes, her vivid imagination captivated by the tales of her Colonial forebears and the romantic notion of Australia's outback. Fro ...Show more
Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Widely regarded as the most accomplished general of World War II, the Soviet military legend Marshal Georgy Zhukov at last gets the full-scale biographical treatment he has long deserved. A man of indomitable will and fierce determination, Georgy Zhukov was the Soviet Union's indispensable commander t ...Show more
Chopper 3: How to Shoot Friends & Influence People by Mark Read
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Crims and screws agree on one thing: that the people who run prisons wouldn't know if a tram was up them unless you rang the bell." How to Shoot Friends and Influence People, Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read's third book, was written behind bars as Chopper faced life in prison for a shooting he claimed he d ...Show more
Cupid Stunts: The Life and Radio Times of Kenny Everett by David and Caroline Stafford
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
On paper, Kenny Everett's qualifications did not look promising - not much in the way of education, physique or social skills, just a gift for funny voices, an oblique imagination and a way with a tape recorder. Yet, by an odd twist of fate, when in the 1960's and 70's the British radio revolution tran ...Show more
These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-194516.79 by May Smith
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But still, ordinary life goes on: May goes shopping, plays tennis, takes holidays and even falls in love - while recording it faithfully in her diary. 'May is simply a j ...Show more
Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
During the sixty-odd years of her reign, Queen Victoria gathered around her a household dedicated to her service. By following the lives of six members of her household - from governess to maid-of-honour, chaplain to personal physician - Serving Victoria offers a unique insight into the Victorian court ...Show more
Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier by Terry Darlington
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
At seventy-five, Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing, including starting a business and becoming athletes and running a literary society. Lately they had become boating adventurers and Terry a bestselling writer. But in their Midlands canal town in November, life wa ...Show more
The Bite in the Apple by Chrisann Brennan
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology. For him, the point was to set people free with tools to explore their own unique creativity. Chrisann Brennan knows this better than anyone. She met him in high school, at a time when Jobs was passionately aware that there ...Show more
David Beckham by Beckham, David
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
David Beckham is the world's most famous football icon. In May this year he brought down the curtain on a hugely successful playing career that spanned two decades, during which he proudly wore the shirts of Manchester United, Real Madrid, LA Galaxy, AC Milan, Paris Saint-Germain, and England. He captai ...Show more