You Called an Ambulance for What? by Tim Booth
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency call-out for someone short of breath turns out to be an adult man with a blocked nose. Far from beginner's luck, this turns out to be an omen for the rest of his paramedic career. Between the obligatory stories of objects lodged in body cavities to grown me ...Show more
Mirrors of Greatness - Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him by David Reynolds
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age' ADAM ZAMOYSKIWinston Churchill followed his own star. He yearned to be 'great', to gain historical immortality. And he did so through deeds and words: his ...Show more
Taylor Swift: The Whole Story by Chas Newkey-Burden
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The updated story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world with her Eras tour. A small-town girl with incredible talent – and the strength and determination to realise her dream – Taylor Swift has gone from A ...Show more
Deadly Quiet City: Stories From Wuhan, COVID Ground Zero by Murong Xuecun
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From one of China's most celebrated and silenced literary authors, Murong Xuecun, Deadly Quiet City is an unforgettable collection of true stories from the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. On 23 January 2020, Wuhan was placed in total lockdown. The city of eleven million – the centre of ...Show more
Tales from the Wood's Edge: A Memoir by Wilma Giordana Laryn
$36.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In a reversal of the usual 'Tuscan Dream', a small Italian family of parents, daughter and dog, move to New Zealand in search of adventure. Here are their stories, as well as memories of life in Italy and Japan, of holidays in Kenya, Turkey and other countries. This is also a woman's personal story of ...Show more
The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carre was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait ...Show more
Bwana, There's a Body in the Bath by Peter Whitehead; Tony Park
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to save his family money. Alone and working in near slave-like conditions as a farm labourer, Peter learned the art of breaking wild horses and so began a lifelong ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could ...Show more
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The powerful, inspiring follow-up to the critically acclaimed, multi-million #1 bestselling memoir Becoming In The Light We Carry, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. She considers the ques ...Show more
Enzo Ferrari: The definitive biography of an icon by Luca Dal Monte
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Soon to be an AppleTV+ series, Enzo uncovers a wealth of new facts about the origins, ambitions, and private life of Enzo Ferrari.Drawing on years of original research conducted in Italy and abroad, this book lays bare the hidden aspects of Ferrari's career. From his earliest failed business ventures, t ...Show more
Defying Hitler - A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner; Oliver Pretzel (translator)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This memoir begins in 1914 when the family summer holiday is cut short by the outbreak of war, and ends with Hitler's assumption of power in 1933. It is a portrait of the author and his own generation in Germany, those born between 1900 and 1910, and explains through his own experiences and those of his ...Show more