Not Just the Wife of the General Manager: Life in the Outback and a Whole Lot More by Sally Warriner
$41.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Not Just the Wife of the General Manager is a rollicking memoir of one woman’s life on outback cattle stations, and an homage to the many unsung women like her. It was the 1980s and Sally Warriner was in her early 20s when she returned from a backpacking sojourn and hitchhiked to Australia’s far nort ...Show more
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
The Golden Maze: A biography of Prague by Richard Fidler
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Beloved ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolu ...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
$45.00 (11% off)
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
Tuesdays with Morrie: The international bestseller by Mitch Albom
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ...Show more
Renegades - Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen; Barack Obama
$80.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-breaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus con ...Show more
Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest. For Mallory as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What ...Show more
A Bookshop of One's Own - How a Group of Women Set Out to Change the World by Jane Cholmeley
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain - from a woman at the heart of the women's liberation movement.What was it like to start a feminist bookshop, in an industry dominated by men'? How could a lesbian thrive in Thatcher's time, with the g ...Show more
Amphibious Soul: Finding the wild in a tame world by Craig Foster
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An awe-inspiring narrative about the power of nature and our place within it, from the creator of My Octopus Teacher, filmmaker Craig Foster Amphibious Soul is the long-awaited book from naturalist, adventurer, and scientific explorer Craig Foster. This is a raw and personal memoir (told here for the f ...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