The Millionaire Castaway by David Glasheen with Neil Bramwell
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Dave Glasheen’s life began spiralling out of control after he lost his family’s vast fortune in the stock market crash of 1987. After a series of catastrophes, he needed to take drastic measures to restore himself. Opting out of the rat race, he cast himself away to a deserted island off the north-east ...Show more
How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua D. Mezrich
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.
Boy in the Cellar by Stephen Smith
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The shocking true story of a boy who spent 13 years locked in a cellar only to flee into the hands of abusers.
Mr Five per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World's Richest Man by Jonathan Conlin
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he brokered top-level oil deals, concealing his mysterious web of bus ...Show more
Behind the Mask - My Autobiography by Tyson Fury
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The extraordinary story of the rise and fall and rise again of Tyson Fury... ________________________________ THE GYPSY KING. A Manchester lad from Irish Traveller stock, born three months premature and weighing just a pound at birth, Tyson (named after his father's boxing hero) grew up to become one of ...Show more
Kika and Me: How One Guide Dog Changed My Life by Amit Patel
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The moving true story of Dr Amit Patel, who lost his sight in just thirty-six hours and Kika, the guide dog who changed his life.In 2013, Amit was training to be a trauma surgeon when a condition called keratoconus caused him to lose his sight within thirty-six hours. His life changed forever. Strugglin ...Show more
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective - Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime by Susannah Stapleton
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West. You will never know the difference between fact and fiction again.' - Jill Paton Walsh, author of the Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mysteries. Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty ...Show more
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again."-David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon One of the New York Times' "20 most antici ...Show more
The Greatest Beer Run Ever - A Crazy Adventure in a Crazy War by John Donohue
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An incredible true story of how, in 1967 - having seen students protesting against the Vietnam war - Chickie Donohue and his New York City bar friends decided that someone should go to Vietnam and take their soldier pals a beer and show them that SOMEONE appreciates what they're doing out there. It wou ...Show more
Tall Tales and Wee Stories - The Best of Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday Times In December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinar ...Show more
The Divorce Diaries by Sarah Quigley
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Funny, honest, confronting, wise, this is a compelling and bitter-sweet true story of breaking up and breaking through. 'I hear you're divorced?' a friend greets me. 'Congratulations!' The Divorce Diaries outlines the difficult and often heart-breaking process of leaving a marriage and beginning again. ...Show more
The Lost Boy: Tales of a Child Soldier by Ayik Chut Deng
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In episode 1 of the Ray Martin fronted SBS series Look me in the eye two South Sudanese migrants now resident in Brisbane sat across from each other and looked into each other's eyes. One of them, Ayik, was once a ten-year-old boy soldier training in the junior forces of the SPLA and like many of the yo ...Show more