The Choice by Edith Eger
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
THE AWARDWINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateIn 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimagin ...Show more
Autumn in Venice - Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Andrea Di Robilant
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The acclaimed author of A Venetian Affair now gives us the remarkable story of Hemingway's love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there--a vivacious eighteen-year-old who inspired the man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work. In the fall of 1948 Hemingway ...Show more
The Knife's Edge by Stephen Westaby
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the profession's most eminent figures. Although Professor Stephen Westaby was born with the necessary coordination and manual dexterity, it was a head trauma sustained during university that gifted him the qual ...Show more
The Warburgs by Ron Chernow
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A story of brilliant achievement, dazzling personalities and human frailty set against the dark background of European racism and paranoia. The Warburgs were bankers, patrons of the arts, scholars, socialites, philanthropists and politicians. This Jewish family from Westphalia became a German success s ...Show more
Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade...' - Financial Times 'To be savoured for its vivid and sympathetic recreation of the tragic life and brilliant times of the gifted Mary Shelley' - Times Literary Supplement 'Brilliant and enthralling' - Independent On Su ...Show more
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - A Sortabiography by Eric Idle
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Kathy Lette: (author best known for her works 'Puberty Blues' & 'How To Kill Your Husband [And Other Handy Household Hints]', and friend of Bookoccino) "Eric Idle’s memoir – a book so life-affirming and funny, it should be prescribed by doctors in lieu of Prozac." From the ingenious comic perfo ...Show more
The Girl Who Wanted to Belong - The Powerful True Story of a Devastated Little Girl and the Foster Carer Who Healed Her Broken Heart by Angela Hart
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Angela Hart Ser.
Lucy is eight-years-old and ends up in foster care after being abandoned by her mum and kicked out by her new stepmother. Two aunties and then her elderly grandmother take her in but it seems nobody can cope with Lucy's disruptive behaviour. Social Services hope a stay with experienced foster carer Ange ...Show more
The Best of Us - A Memoir by Joyce Maynard
$21.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year List From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott)In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author a ...Show more
The Girl Who Climbed Everest - Lessons Learned Facing up to the World's Toughest Mountains by Bonita Norris
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'What I've learned from climbing mountains is that we can push ourselves far beyond what we think we are capable of, and it's outside of our comfort zones that the most amazing things happen.' What drives us to go to our limits and beyond? What does it take to make dreams come true over all else? An ...Show more
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality--now available at a great value Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions abo ...Show more
Behind the Throne - Five Centuries of Life in the Royal Household by Adrian Tinniswood
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Behind the Throneis a history of family life. The families concerned were royal families. But they still had to get up in the morning. They ate and entertained their friends and worried about money. Henry VIII kept tripping over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back ...Show more
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Personal Memoir by Hana Yasmeen Ali
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
At Home with Muhammad Aliis an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of a legend, a man admired and respected as the greatest sporting icon of our age, written by Ali's daughter Hana. As Muhammad Ali approached the end of his astonishing boxing career, he strove to embrace a new purpose and role in life ...Show more