Scarred - The true story of how I escaped NXIVM, the cult that bound my life by Sarah Edmondson; Kristine Gasbarre
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Scarred is Sarah Edmondson's compelling memoir of her recruitment into the NXIVM cult, the twelve years she spent within the organization (during which she enrolled over 2,000 members), her breaking point, and her harrowing fight to get out, to help others and to heal. This is also a story about abuses ...Show more
Country Cop 24/7: The Life and Times of a Rural Cop by Gavin Benney; Catherine Ballard
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This book tells the story of Gavin Benney's life as a rural policeman in charge of the Hikurangi police district for over 20 years. It is also the story of the Hikurangi district, its people and how it has changed in that time. Police have unparalleled access to all levels of society, they see us in the ...Show more
One Man's Climb - A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy and Triumph on K2 by Adrian HAYES
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
He was also one of the last people to speak to highly renowned mountaineering guide Marty Schmidt, and his son Denali, who tragically died on K2 in 2013 during Adrian's first attempt. Adrian was the one to break the news of this tragedy to the outside world. The author frankly discusses the true reason ...Show more
White Boots and Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties by Jacky Hyams
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The place is London, and the year is 1966. It's a time when anything seems possible, especially if you are a young, free-spirited, mini-skirted girl in search of adventure and independence. An incredible explosion of pop music, fashion and youth culture has turned London into the most 'swinging' city o ...Show more
Inside The Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Opp ...Show more
Edda Mussolini - The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal. She was her father's confidante during the 20 years of Fascist rule, acting as envoy to both Germany and Britain, and pla ...Show more
Down With the System: The highly-awaited memoir from the System Of A Down legend by Serj Tankian
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The incredible first memoir by System Of A Down frontman Serj TankianWith nearly 40 million record sales, three albums topping the Billboard charts, a Grammy win and a legion of fans, System Of A Down are one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. At their core has always been Serj Tankian, whose jou ...Show more
Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama by Nelson Mandela
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
2018 is the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book . . . humane, dignified and magnificently unembittered' The Times The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the dra ...Show more
The Diary Keepers - Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times by Nina Siegal
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before.Nina Siegal, an accomplished journalist and novelist, weaves together excerpts from t ...Show more
Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Welcome to Sotheran's, the oldest, most bonkers bookshop in the country, with its bizarre clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabelled keys, poisoned books, some things that aren't even books, and deeply eccentric staff. Think Diary of a Bookseller but with quite a lot more Bernard Black.Some years ago, ...Show more
The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
A short memoir whose main focus is unpacking a family story that was never told:that a farm in Taranaki on which the family's generations-long comfortable fortunes rested had been directly taken from the people of Parikaha and given to an ancestor, a member of the Armed Constabulary following the invasi ...Show more