Southern Discomfort by Tena Clarke
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the bestselling tradition of The Help comes a powerful and moving memoir about a white girl coming of age in the South in the 1960s and the black woman who inspired her to forge her own path. Tena Clark was born in 1953 in a tiny Mississippi town close to the Alabama border, where the legacy of slav ...Show more
Twinning It!: Dance, Acro, Friendship, YouTube & Living Life to the Fullest by Sam Rybka, Teagan Rybka
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Youtube acro sensations, Sam & Teagan Rybka (aka The Rybka Twins) share their story so far, along with their best tips for balancing friendship, success, fitness and family.
Like Father Like Son - A family story by Michael Parkinson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
A look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father John William was, and remains, a family love stor ...Show more
From There to Here - A Memoir by Joe Bennett
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty. Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty books, and now, at long last, a memoir. From There to Here describes a childhood of fishing, cricket, friends, a dog, some mild molestation and a few deat ...Show more
I Leap Over the Wall by Monica Baldwin
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
At the age of twenty-one, Monica Baldwin - the niece of Stanley Baldwin - entered one of the oldest and most strictly enclosed contemplative orders of the Roman Catholic Church. At the age of forty-eight, and after struggling with her vocation for many years, she obtained a special rescript from Rome an ...Show more
Lengthening the Shadow by Dave Burt
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
`I know the pain at the gym is nowhere near as bad as the pain of depression . . . so I suck up the workout pain and push myself that bit harder.' Continuing ill-health and countless surgeries sent Auckland businessman Dave Burt spiralling down into the depths of despair and hopelessness. Something had ...Show more
Miranda Hart - the Unauthorised Biography by Sophie Johnson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
For the first time, author Sophie Johnson reveals the story behind Miranda's rise to fame. The comedian was born in Torquay in 1972, yet despite graduating with a degree in politics, she always wanted to be a comedian. In 2002 she performed at the Edinburgh Festival, and her early career was followed by ...Show more
Lord Sugar: The Man Who Revolutionised British Business by Charlie Burden
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Lord Alan Sugar's very British success story is one that any aspiring business professional can learn from. He grew up in an East End council flat and boiled beetroots for the local greengrocer and built his own business empire. In the process he became an entrepreneurial icon, fixture on the Sunday Tim ...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
Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
FATE IS THE HUNTER is a fascinating and thrilling account of some of the more memorable experiences Ernest K Gann had in the air. He's flown in both peace and war and come close to death many times. Here he reveals the characters he's known and the dramas he's experienced, portraying fate (or death) as ...Show more
Teacher: One woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching by Gabbie Stroud
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging. 'Gabbie's story needs to be shouted from the rooftops. She very eloquently shows us why and how education needs to change... Teacher m ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 193 ...Show more