Damaged by Cathy Glass
33.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass At the Social Services office, Cathy (an experienced foster carer) is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie's challenging behaviour has ...Show more
Fab by Howard Sounes
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The living embodiment of The Beatles, a musical juggernaut without parallel, Paul McCartney is undoubtedly the senior figure in pop music today. In this authoritative biography, journalist and acclaimed author Howard Sounes leaves no stone unturned in building the most accurate and extensive profile yet ...Show more
So Farewell Then: The Biography of Peter Cook by Wendy E. Cook
39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
To his many fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they never met. Over a decade since his untimely death, his reputation as one of Britain's greatest comics shows no sign of shrinking.Peter Cook was one of the most significant influences on British comedy of the last 50 years. Caustic, crue ...Show more
So Farewell Then by Wendy E. Cook
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The most intimate portrait of Peter Cook to date, Cook's first wife writes of her life with Britain's most ingenious and innovative comedian, and offering a side of him few have ever seen. To his many fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they never met. Over a decade since his untimely de ...Show more
Humble Pie by Gordon Ramsay
27.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his bestselling real story... Humble Pie tells the full story of how he became the world's most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother's heroin addiction and his fai ...Show more
What Rhymes with Bastard? by Linda Robertson
24.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The hilariously candid story of an unbelievably dysfunctional and disintegrating relationship. When her beloved Jack got banged up in a mental hospital after trying to sail down the Thames in a makeshift raft, Linda didn't take the hint. Instead, she married him and moved to San Francisco, where she pl ...Show more
William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague
27.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade. Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to lead a powerful tide of opinion, as MP for Hull, against t ...Show more
The Garden in the Clouds: Confessions of a Hopeless Romantic by Antony Woodward
29.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Winner of the National Trust Outdoor Book of the Year 2011The story of one man's unlikely quest to create out of a mountainous Welsh landscape a garden fit for inclusion in the prestigious Yellow Book - the 'Gardens of England and Wales Open for Charity' guide - in just one year. The son of two passiona ...Show more
House of Stone by Christina Lamb
27.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. In 2000, after Robert Mugabe had launched his controversial land reform programme, Nigel Hough held on to a fervent hope that he might keep hold of his ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
Liberty - The life and times of six women in Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The bestselling author of 'Maharanis' recreates the lives of six remarkable women who, in a time of violent revolution, leapt at the chance to exercise their considerable charm, intelligence and acumen, and make their mark on history. Germaine de Stael was an intellectual and an aristocrat, equally obse ...Show more
'Tis : A memoir by Frank McCourt
25.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Frank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling 'Angela's Ashes'. 'Angela's Ashes' was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt's critically-acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Limerick childhood won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics' Circle Awar ...Show more