Enchantment: Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness. But when she was five, her father deserted the family. With the outbreak of war in 1939, her mother thought they would be safer in Holland than Holland Park, but although they survived the German Occupati ...Show more
Dame Suzy D: My Story by Susan Devoy
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A four-time world squash champion, Dame Susan Devoy has led a remarkably varied life. She's been Race Relations Commissioner, a television star, a newspaper columnist, raised four boys and met Bill Clinton and King Charles. Fiercely driven and wildly competitive, her straight up style and hilarious turn ...Show more
Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly by Jeremy Clarkson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Another year on the Diddly Squat Farm and Jeremy is still knee-deep in mud and endless challenges.Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm. Since taking the wheel three years ago Jeremy's had his work cut out. And it's now clear from hard-won experience that, when it comes to farming, there's only one golden rul ...Show more
Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A massive, predatory bird and its place in history and myth. The legend of Pouakai, aka the extinct Haast's Eagle, takes Peter Walker on a journey from an 1860s Canterbury sheep run to a deep cave near Karamea as he learns the story of the mighty hunter that inhabited a peak in the foothills of the Sout ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story by Lynda Topp, Jools Topp
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The incredible story of how a couple of country kids from Huntly became much-loved Kiwi icons and TV stars, with their own unique brand of original country music and comedy that has captivated audiences in New Zealand and overseas for over 40 years. Jools and Lynda Topp aka The Topp Twins tell this sto ...Show more
Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan by Bariz Shah
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
What does it take to find hope in dark places and change the course of your life? When Bariz Shah's family immigrated to New Zealand, they couldn't have predicted that everything would change after 9/11. Still only a child, Bariz became the target of racist abuse and bullying, and responded the only way ...Show more
Educated by Tara Westover
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't b ...Show more
The Last, the Least, the Lonely and the Lost - A memoir of medicine, meanderings and the marginalised by Brian R McAvoy
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
An odyssey of intriguing stories, fascinating facts and unique insights into life, medicine and society. This eclectic memoir describes the intriguing international journey of an individual doctor in a changing world, providing the perspective of a GP, an addiction medicine specialist and an academic. R ...Show more
Where the Children Take Us - How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable by Zain E. Asher
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'A deeply moving and riveting memoir.' Arianna Huffington 'An incredible personal story.' Don Cheadle This spellbinding memoir opens with a woman receiving shattering news that her husband and son have been in a terrible accident. In that instant, she becomes a widowed immigrant left to raise four c ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$38.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Learning To Be French (and Failing) - A New Zealander, a Tiny Village & an Ancient Stone House by Anna Bibby
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
What happens when an art gallery owner from New Zealand buys a dilapidated French house on a whim? Anna Bibby owned a successful art gallery in New Zealand until one day, on holiday in France, she bought a falling-down house in a picturesque medieval village. So began the process of renovating her beaut ...Show more