Abandoned by Anya Peters
29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Abandoned is the true story of a childhood full of secrets, abuse and a little girl who didn't belong. This heartbreaking story is about how one woman finally overcame her traumatic childhood and adult homelessness to find a place she could call home. 'Abandoned' tells the heartbreaking story of a litt ...Show more
Seminary Boy by John Cornwell
27.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines. John Cornwell decided to become a priest at the age of thirteen, a strange choi ...Show more
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden age of paranoia by Francis Wheen
30.00 NZD
32.00 (6% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir
'Strange Days Indeed' tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of Western politics and culture in the 1970s.
Mad World - Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne
29.00 NZD
30.00 (3% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir
A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, 'Brideshead Revisited'. Evelyn Waugh was alread ...Show more
Sand in My Shoes : The wartime Diaries of a WAAF by Joan Rice
37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Joan Rice had the same ambitions as many young women of her generation: she wanted to write; wanted to travel; wanted to be famous. With the outbreak of World War II she hurried to enlist - aged 20 - in the Women's Auxillary Air Force, hoping for change, for adventure, and for the chance to 'swank aroun ...Show more
It's Our Turn to Eat by Michela Wrong
27.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point. When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London flat, carrying a small mountain of luggage, it was clear so ...Show more
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen
36.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. This is his memoir of his growth from a 'small and fundamentally ridiculous person,' through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions.
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