Unbreakable by Sharon Osbourne
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Sharon Osbourne's life has always been an extreme rollercoaster ride. And despite her best efforts, the last few years have been the most dramatic and turbulent of all. In her gripping new autobiography Sharon reveals the truth behind the headlines. There have been times of huge joy and pleasure - becom ...Show more
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
$52.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf Hoss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children. In the aftermath of the Second World War, th ...Show more
The Secret Life of Uri Geller: CIA Masterspy? by Jonathan Margolis
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
For over 60 years, spanning from his childhood to the Cold War to the current day, former Israeli paratrooper and Six Day War veteran Uri Geller has been a major enigma. Is he merely one of the most convincing stage magicians in history, a multimillionaire entertainer, courted by presidents and rock st ...Show more
Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and remarkable scientists of our age and author of the scientific bestseller "A Brief History of Time", which sold over 25 million copies across the world and will be adapted as a children's book in the Autumn of next year. In this compelling memoir hi ...Show more
Top Cop by David R. Nicholas
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Told through the eyes for Former-Chief Inspector Gary Raymond (NSW Police Force), Top Cop captures the essence of police life and covers with depth and humour a wide range of incidents from his career. Raymond saw life at its raw edge -- death, murder, suicide, petty crime.
HRC State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan Allen
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a riveting biography which combines deep reporting and West Wing-esque storytelling to reveal the strategising, machinations and last minute decision-making that have accompanied one of the greatest political comebacks in history. The story of Hillary's phoenix-like rise is at the heart of HRC, ...Show more
Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie by Jon Ronson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Frank wore a big fake head. Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true identity. This became the subject of feverish speculation during his zenith years. Together, they rode relatively high. Then it all w ...Show more
If it's Not One Thing, it's Your Mother by Julia Sweeney
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Julia Sweeney was nearing forty, and quite famous, when she got on a flight to China to turn her life upside down. She had a flourishing career as a comedienne and performer, ample friends and admirers, but what she didn't have was a child and, after a string of non-committal boyfriends, she decided to ...Show more
She Landed by Moonlight: The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington: The Real Charlotte Gray by Carole Seymour-Jones
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
On the night of the 22 September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into Occupied France. Like Sebastian Faulks' heroine, Charlotte Gray, Pearl had a dual mission: in her case, to fig ...Show more
As Luck Would Have it by Sir Derek Jacobi
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Star of stage, screen and television, and one of only two people to be awarded two Knighthoods, Sir Derek Jacobi is one of Britain's most distinguished actors. 'If you want to be an actor, don't. If you need to be an actor, do.' The world of theatre could not have been further from Derek's childhood: an ...Show more
It's Not Raining Daddy It's Happy by Benjamin Brooks-Dutton
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Surviving grief, a father and son start again. The moving and inspiring story of heartbreak and courage. Ben Brooks-Dutton's wife - the great love of his life - was knocked down and killed by a car as he walked beside her, pushing their two-year-old son in his buggy. Life changed forever. Suddenly Ben ...Show more
Testament of Youth - An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of ...Show more