Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power behind the crown by Valentine Low
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years watching the public face the Royal family chooses to present to the world in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, with Charles ...Show more
I Am Malala (Teen Edition) by Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
Diddly Squat: 'Til The Cows Come Home (#2 Diddly Squat) by Jeremy Clarkson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Welcome back to Clarkson's farm.At the end of Jeremy's first year, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him with profits of e144.And while he's mastered the art of moaning, challenges still abound. Who knew loading a trailer was more demanding than flying a gunship? That cows were more dangerous than motor-racing ...Show more
The Note Through the Wire - A WWII prisoner of war, a resistance heroine and their incredible true story by Doug Gold
$38.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
An extraordinary true story of a love that emerged, against all odds, from the brutal war in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent by Dame Judi Dench
$42.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before. Internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent is a witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of our beloved Shakespeare. 'A MAGICAL LOVE LETTER ...Show more
All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral History by Those Who Were There by Steven Gaines, Peter Brown
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing ...Show more
The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little baby? To conceal the fear and terror in my heart I left her, trying to put up a cheerful front. But no one could conceal from her the ominous ...Show more
Facing Fear: The First Woman to Sail Solo Around Antarctica by Lisa Blair
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Facing Fear is the inspiring true story of Lisa Blair who sailed into the history books on 25 July 2017 by becoming the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica. Seventy-two days into her circumnavigation, when Lisa was more than 1000 nautical miles from land, the mast of Climate Action Now came cras ...Show more
Questions I Am Asked about the Holocaust by Hedi Fried; Alice Olsson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.' Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her sister were forced ...Show more
Mortal Monarchs - 1000 Years of Royal Deaths by Suzie Edge
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'A brilliant, funny and thought-provoking book' - Jonn Elledge'Compelling, provocative, and utterly brilliant' - Dr Estelle ParanqueHow the monarchs of England and Scotland met their deaths has been a wonderful mixture of violence, infections, overindulgence and occasional regicide. In Mortal Monarchs, ...Show more
Bryce Courtenay: Storyteller by Christine Courtenay
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The long-awaited memoir of the late Bryce Courtenay - Australia's bestselling author - as told by his wife, Christine Courtenay.Bryce Courtenay was a born storyteller. The success of his extraordinary debut The Power of One made publishing history, and in the years that followed Bryce continued to enter ...Show more