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
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
I'm Ralph, I'm Dad by Dr Glennis Mafi
12.00 NZD
24.00 (50% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir
Ralph Wood was diagnosed with dementia, and over the ensuing years his daughter, a medical doctor, along with other close family members, walked that journey beside him. Through poems, drawings and brief comments, I'm Ralph, I'm Dad lovingly tells the story. Though this is a personal account, it is a jo ...Show more
Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company That Took on the World - Lyons by Thomas Harding
26.00 NZD
Category: History
'I was riveted- this is a fascinating social history.' NIGELLA LAWSON'Five stars... history on a scale at once intimate and grand.'TELEGRAPHA panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking company.This is the story of how a family t ...Show more
Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Linda Collins gets up on a Monday morning, dresses for work, makes coffee and goes into her daughter Victoria’s bedroom. Why hasn’t Vicky got up yet? It’s an important day: the start of the second term of her final year at school. Today she will hear her latest exam results. The bedroom is empty. So beg ...Show more
Marilyn Monroe - The Private Life of a Public Icon by Charles Casillo
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Based on new interviews and research, this ground-breaking biography explores the secret selves behind Marilyn Monroe's public facades.Marilyn Monroe. Her beauty still captivates. Her love life still fascinates. Her story still dominates popular culture. Now, drawing on years of research and dozens of n ...Show more
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
In one of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, Lorna Sage brings alive her girlhood in post-war provincial Britain. From memories of her family and the wounds they inflict upon one another, she tells a tale of thwarted love, failed religion, and the salvation she found in books. From a chil ...Show more