Zarifa - A Woman's Battle in a Man's World by Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights.I am one of the lucky ones.I got out of Afghanistan alive when the Taliban retook the country. Millions of others did not - they are now living under one of the world's most repressive regimes, with any ...Show more
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'Magnificent.' Rachel Clarke 'A book to treasure and reread; I'm very grateful for it.' Gavin Francis As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to m ...Show more
I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was by Ruby Wax
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
An honest and refreshing new exploration of mental health from mindfulness expert Ruby Wax. Bestselling author and comedian, Ruby Wax, takes a candid, dark, and witty dive through her life and personal experiences with mental health, providing solace and advice for anyone out there who realises they ar ...Show more
In the Wars by Waheed Arian
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'A thrilling and absorbing read from first to last. What a life and what an inspiration.' Stephen Fry __________ Born in war-torn Afghanistan, Waheed Arian's earliest memories are of bombs. Fleeing the conflict with his family, he spent much of his childhood in refugee camps in Pakistan, living sometime ...Show more
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as ... a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering ...Show more
Prime Time: Love, Health, Sex, Fitness, Friendship, Spirit; Making the Most of All of Your Life by Jane Fonda
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
"Jane Fonda, no. 1 bestselling author, actress and fitness pioneer, is an icon for generations of women. Now you can learn her secrets to living life to the full with this intimate insight into her world. Combining stories from her own life and from the lives of others with new research, Jane Fonda expl ...Show more
Ripiro Beach: A Memoir of Life After Near Death by Caroline Barron
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Does DNA write our destinies? Or do the hands that nurture triumph over nature? What is it that determines who we really are? Caroline Barron's father never found his birth mother. After he dies suddenly on her twentieth birthday, Caroline develops an insidious fear of her own untimely death. When she n ...Show more
Tough Outback by Mike Bellamy
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A Kiwi's stories of misadventure, mining and mayhem In 1989 Mike Bellamy set off for the remote town of Wiluna, on the edge of the Western Desert. Keen to make a buck from Australia's mining boom, the fledgling Kiwi soon realised he'd walked across a frontier into a roughshod world where anyone tryi ...Show more
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age by Reid Mitenbuler
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II. Deep in the Arctic wilderness, Peter Freuchen awoke to find himself buried al ...Show more
Spare by The Duke of Prince Harry Sussex
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century- two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their li ...Show more