Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama by Nelson Mandela
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
2018 is the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book . . . humane, dignified and magnificently unembittered' The Times The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the dra ...Show more
Into the Abyss by Carol Shaben
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the astonishing true life adventure story of a plane crash in the wilds of northern Canada...and the four men who survived to tell the tale. On a wintry October night in 1984, nine passengers boarded a Piper Navajo commuter plane bound for remote communities in the far north of Canada. Only fou ...Show more
Joseph Anton - A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children, which was awarded the Best of the Booker Prize in 1993, comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that woul ...Show more
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures by Wilbur Smith
$39.99 NZD
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The first ever memoirs from the Number One global bestselling adventure author. Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars ...Show more
Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell'I was entranced' Cathy ...Show more
The Sheep Stell: Memoirs of a Shepherd by Janet White
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess' Mail on Sunday'Janet White's unfailingly enjoyable book . . . taps into a widespread feeling that we have become cut off from the natural world' TLS'An immensely enjoyable and heartfelt book: it makes you want to run for the hill ...Show more
The Diary Keepers - Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times by Nina Siegal
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before.Nina Siegal, an accomplished journalist and novelist, weaves together excerpts from t ...Show more
Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more
Will You Care If I Die? by Nicolas Lunabba
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'It's heartbreaking. It's scary. It's beautiful.' Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove In a world where children murder children, and where gun violence is the worst in Europe, Nicolas Lunabba’s job as a social organizer with Malmö’s underclass requires firm boundarie ...Show more
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Acclaimed biographer Sebba offers the first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the 20th century--and one of the most talked about women of her generation.
The Wisdom of Morrie by Morrie Schwartz
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. 'Beautiful ...Those lucky enough to read this book will be inspired.' Deepak Chopra Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaning ...Show more
Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The story of Australia?s most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration- Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton.Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia?s greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition le ...Show more