Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young
37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
In the vein of Tara Westover's Educated, Daniella Mestyanek's memoir is a searing and powerful testament to a woman's ability to transform the circumstances of her life through inner strength and resilience. Told in a beautiful, propulsive voice and with clear-eyed honesty, Uncultured first takes us beh ...Show more
Comrade - Bill Andersen - A Communist, Working-Class Life by Cybèle Locke
50.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Bill Andersen was one of the most significant figures in New Zealand's trade union movement in the later twentieth century. Cybele Locke's biography recovers the relationships between communism and working class trade unionism during World War Two and the following decades. Starting with Bill's experien ...Show more
Look! We Have Come Through!: Living With D. H. Lawrence by Lara Feigel
33.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Lara Feigel listens to birds outside her window their circling, strident calls and thinks of D. H. Lawrence. It is the spring of 2020 and, as the pandemic takes hold, she locks down in rural Oxfordshire with her partner, her two children, and that most explosive of writers.Proceeding month by month thro ...Show more
This Much is True: 'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL by Miriam Margolyes
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRYBAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treas ...Show more
Ruby Tui - Straight Up by Ruby Tui
37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood yearning for a better option in life to Olympic Champion and the world's best rugby sevens player. Ruby learned to rely on herself and her own strengths as a child, growing up without role models, in ...Show more
Anderton - His Life and Times by David Grant
50.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Jim Anderton, the Labour rebel who founded a new political movement and became deputy prime minister, is the subject of this compelling, warts-and-all biography by award-winning historian David Grant. From his position as the Party's most outspoken president, Jim Anderton became a backbencher in David L ...Show more
Simon Gault: No Half Measures by Simon Gault
50.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Auckland chef Simon Gault opened his first restaurant aged 22, piling up awards and accolades at Bell House, Gault’s on Quay, Euro, Giraffe and more. The former MasterChef New Zealand judge is a successful businessman with his name on stocks, seasonings, cookware and cocktails, but that’s not the full s ...Show more
Bushline - A Memoir by Robbie Burton
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Robbie Burton is a tramper, mountain-lover and book publisher, who has had a life-long infatuation with the wild places of New Zealand. In this memoir he recalls a childhood in which the natural world played a central part, and led to a youthful obsession with tramping, skiing and mountaineering. In hi ...Show more
Landlines by Raynor Winn
48.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCE Global bestselling author Raynor Winn returns with her third and most ambitious memoir, a chronicle of her journey across Great Britain. As the fracture lines between nations grow wider, how do we relate to each other, and t ...Show more
Killer in the Kremlin: A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny by John Sweeney
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin , award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the kil ...Show more
A Fish In the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Affecting and evocative, this classic memoir by one of Aotearoa's finest Maori writers is now updated with new material. 'This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories-distorted by time and distance and a writer's cho ...Show more
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A magical memoir from the New York Times bestselling writer about coming back from the brink of cancer and finding love second time around. If you pitched a movie about a woman in her seventies, recently widowed, who reconnects with a man she dated in college, leading to a month's long exchange of emai ...Show more