Keep Clear: My Adventures with Asperger's by Tom Cutler
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
It is only after a crack-up, at the age of 55, that Tom Cutler gets the diagnosis that allows him to make sense of everything that's come before, including his weird obsessions with road-sign design, magic tricks, spinning tops, and Sherlock Holmes. The final realisation that he has Asperger's allows a ...Show more
Take Six Girls - The Lives of the Mitford Sisters (Illustrated Edition) by Laura Thompson
$59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Writer, countrywoman, Fascist, Nazi, Communist, duchess. Born in that order, they were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald ...Show more
Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2 ...Show more
Anthony Bourdain Remembered by CNN Staff
$54.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A moving and insightful collection of quotes, memories, and images celebrating the life of Anthony Bourdain When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, the outpouring of love from his fans around the world was momentous. Their tributes spoke to his legacy, confirming that the world is much smaller than we ...Show more
Remembering Bob by Sue Pieters-Hawke (Editor); Louise Swinn (Editor)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Bob Hawke's death in May 2019 sparked national mourning across the country as we remembered just how important Bob had been in the shaping of modern Australia. In an age when political personas have become increasingly formulaic and predictable, Bob was a man of glorious contradictions. He was a Rhodes ...Show more
My Story: Schapelle Corby: Revised by Schapelle Corby, Kathryn Bonella
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Schapelle Corby walked out of Kerobokan Prison in 2014, leaving behind a dark hellhole of violence, corruption and squalor, and straight into a global media circus. She had been Hotel K's most famous inmate. Schapelle was a 27-year-old beauty-school student when, in 2004, Bali customs officers found 4.2 ...Show more
Charles: Our Future King by Robert Jobson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Exploring beyond the banal newspaper headlines that have caricatured our future king over the years, Robert Jobson's biography provides a fresh insight into the extraordinary life of HRH Charles, Prince of Wales as he passes his seventieth birthday at a watershed in the history of the modern British mon ...Show more
Uncrowned Queen - The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch by Nicola Tallis
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
The first comprehensive biography in three decades on Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the Tudor Dynasty.During the bloody and uncertain days of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort was married to the half brother of the Lancastrian king Henry VI. A year later she endured a traumatic birth that brou ...Show more
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground by Justus Rosenberg
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
99-year-old literature professor Justus Rosenberg escaped the Holocaust and spent four daring years in the French Underground during World War II. Now he finally writes his own unforgettable epic. "A gripping memoir from an Eastern European Jew who fought in the French Resistance. ... The narrative ...Show more
The Man Who Was Saturday - The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave by Patrick Bishop
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of Britain's most remarkable 20th century figures. Airey Neave was ...Show more
The Boxer's Story - Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Camps by Nathan Shapow
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Nathan Shapow, a young Latvian, had nothing more on his mind than to enjoy his teenage years and become a champion boxer. But the sound of jackboots marching across Europe and the systematic extermination of the Jews quickly put paid to his dreams. Soon he was to face a different sort of fight. The priz ...Show more