A Fish In the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Affecting and evocative, this classic memoir by one of Aotearoa's finest Maori writers is now updated with new material. 'This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories-distorted by time and distance and a writer's cho ...Show more
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A magical memoir from the New York Times bestselling writer about coming back from the brink of cancer and finding love second time around. If you pitched a movie about a woman in her seventies, recently widowed, who reconnects with a man she dated in college, leading to a month's long exchange of emai ...Show more
Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story by Ejnar Mikkelse, Ejnar Mikkelsen
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Soon to be a Netflix feature film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong Ejnar Mikkelsen was ...Show more
Around the Corners, Out to the Edges - A Memoir by composer Jonathan Besser by Jonathon Besser; Nicola McCloy
50.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Acclaimed classical music composer and director Jonathan Besser's career has been colourful and experimental, immersed in the burgeoning New Zealand art scene of the '70s and '80s. Born into a Jewish household in New York in 1949, Jonathan struggled in school as a neuro-atypical child, before delving in ...Show more
Ideals Are Like Stars - Dame Yvette Williams Story by Angela Walker
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic gold medal, a feat not repeated for forty years. Ideals Are Like Stars is the remarkable true story of Yvette Williams, a trailblazing young athlete who defied the odds to win gold in the long jump at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952. Ignoring the pressure to a ...Show more
Dancing with the Machine by Jo Morgan; John McCrystal
37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Mountaineer, adventurer, avid motorcyclist and constant traveller, Jo Morgan has lived an extraordinary life.The youngest of eight children, Jo was brought up largely by her mum after her father died when she was only one, and she has always had an adventurous side. As soon as she turned 15, Jo got her ...Show more
Faking It: My Life in Transition by Kyle Mewburn
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Kyle Mewburn grew up in the sunburnt, unsophisticated Brisbane suburbs of the 1960s and '70s in a household with little love and no books, with a lifelong feeling of being somehow wrong - like 'strawberry jam in a spinach can'. In this book, Kyle describes this early life and her journey to becoming her ...Show more
The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved in ...Show more
The Stubborn Light of Things - A Nature Diary by Melissa Harrison
33.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A nature diary by award-winning novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural Suffolk countryside.'A writer of great gifts.' Robert Macfarlane'A nature writer with a knowledge and eye for detail that recalls Thomas Hardy and John McGahern.' The T ...Show more
Margaret Thatcher - The Authorized Biography Volume Three - Herself Alone by Charles Moore
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times) A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR How did M ...Show more
The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau's Code of Excellence by Frank Figliuzzi
33.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
"A must read for serious leaders at every level." --General Barry R. McCaffrey (Ret.) The FBI's former head of counterintelligence delivers a field-tested playbook for unlocking individual and organizational excellence, based on the FBI's fiercely protected code of conduct and illustrated through dramat ...Show more
The Zookeepers' War - An Incredible True Story from the Cold War by J. W. Mohnhaupt; Shelley Frisch (Translator)
33.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. "The liveliness of Mohnhaupt's storytelling and the wonderful eccentricity of his subject matter make this book well worth a read." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Living in West ...Show more