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
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
Reading the World - Confessions of a Literary Explorer by Ann Morgan
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe's 196 independent countries (plus one extra), sampling one book from every nation. It wasn't easy. Many languages have next to nothing translated into English; there are tiny ...Show more
The Burned Letter by Helene Ritchie
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A New Zealander’s Holocaust Mystery. “Every day, I am in Auschwitz,” she would say. Even though she never had been. During the Holocaust, Lidi, as a teenager, flees from Hitler and the Nazis. Forced to leave behind everyone whom she loves, she eventually arrives in New Zealand as a Jewish refugee, with ...Show more
A Home Companion: My Year of Living Like My Grandmother by Wendyl Nissen
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Wendyl Nissen's year-long journey towards self-sufficiency. The book details each home discovery as it happens - both the triumphs and the disasters - while Wendyl slowly sheds her corporate life. A Home Companion is the book for any woman who finds herself yearning to get her hands covered in soil and ...Show more
On Agoraphobia by Graham Caveney
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
<b>‘One of my favourite living writers: intelligent, lucid and, most impressive of all, funny’ Jonathan Coe</b> <b>‘Intellectually curious, emotionally bracing and immensely erudite’ Blake Morrison, <i>The Guardian</i></b> <b>‘Captivating’ Richard Beard</b> ...Show more
The Wonderful World of James Herriot: A charming collection of classic stories by James Herriot
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The perfect gift for fans of All Creatures Great and Small, this is a charming collection of classic stories from James Herriot's much-loved books, with insights into his life and work from his children Rosie and Jim.With astute observations and boundless humour, country vet Herriot captures the spirit ...Show more
Confessions - A Life of Failed Promises by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. N. Wilson ... Stephen Fry Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his ca ...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
Rescue Pilot: The Daring Adventures of a New Zealand Search and Rescue Pilot by John Funnell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The daring adventures of a New Zealand search and rescue Pilot. 'Somewhere, up ahead, a person is bleeding, but you have to put that out of your mind. Your job is negotiating with time and space. You have your clock, that person has their own, and in the end, whether the rate at which your clock is clic ...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