Last Stop Auschwitz: My story of survival from within the camp by Eddy de Wind
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'The ultimate Holocaust testimony.' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey Afterword by JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas _______________ Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife Friedel, whom he had met ...Show more
Healing Lives hamlin gashe by Sue Williams
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: CATHERINE HAMLIN
Two incredible women, an unlikely friendship, and a united mission to save the lives of some of the world's poorest and most desperate women. Healing Lives reveals the untold tale of Mamitu Gashe, Dr Catherine Hamlin's protégée, and the inspiring almost 60-year friendship between the two women.In 1962, ...Show more
More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
How to be an older woman? Who knows. Being a young woman can be challenging. But it turns out not even a fraction of the bullshit has happened to you by the time you turn thirty. Because your thirties, forties and beyond see you dealing with Real Life, the stuff you never thought would happen to you- gr ...Show more
Mark Skaife by Mark Skaife
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When it comes to the masters of motorsport, Mark Skaife is without peer. The stats ordain him the most brilliant touring car racer in Australian motorsport history: his six Bathurst victories and five touring car championships place him in the rarefied company of Peter Brock. For more than three decade ...Show more
Sylvia Pankhurst - Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes
$54.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The definitive biography of Sylvia Pankhurst, a woman ahead of her times - political rebel, human rights champion and radical feminist. Born into one Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel; a talented artist, prolific writer and newspaper editor. A free spirit and ...Show more
Sir Bob Charles - The Biography by Geoff Saunders
$55.00 NZD
$59.90 (8% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Sir Bob Charles - The Biography is the first comprehensive biography of Sir Bob Charles. This book begins in working-class rural New Zealand. In 1960 he embarked upon a career that no New Zealander had chosen before - that of a full-time touring professional. As told in Sir Bob Charles -The Biograph ...Show more
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant ride, it's in those wildflowers dancing on their way to ...Show more
My Life in Red and White by Arsene Wenger
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
For the very first time, world-renowned and revolutionary football manager Arsène Wenger tells his own story. He opens up about his life, sharing principles for success on and off the field with lessons on leadership, and vivid tales of his 22 years managing Arsenal to unprecedented success. There, Weng ...Show more
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. 'I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues ...Show more
With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs by Sandra Hogan
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The very funny true story of three children recruited by their parents to work for ASIO in the 1950s. Hilarious, moving and brilliantly told' - Susan Johnson'It reads like the very best of spy thrillers.' - Matthew Condon'An intimate and compelling look at an ordinary family who happen to be ASIO agen ...Show more
Fracture: Trauma, Success and the Origins of Greatness by Matthew Parris
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Matthew Parris, presenter of Great Lives on BBC Radio 4, explores the surprising connection between trauma and greatness through vivid case histories. Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frida Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that stil ...Show more
A Field Guide to the English Clergy - A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising by The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A Book of the Year for The Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History Magazine Judge not, lest ye be judged. This timeless wisdom has guided the Anglican Church for hundreds of years, fostering a certain tolerance of eccentricity among its members. Good thing, too. The 'Mermaid of Morwenstow' exc ...Show more