Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Berserk: out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied. Berserkers: an elite Norse fighting corp who, apparently off their tits on hallucinogenic drugs, fought with a particular fury and senseless abandon still present in many Scandinavian heavy metal groups. Ade Edmondson smashed onto the ...Show more
The Reluctant Carer by The Reluctant Carer
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Hilarious, bitter, poignant and profound, this is the human condition laid brilliantly bare, like an existential soap opera - only with more laughs.' - Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan It was the kind of phone call we all dread. Your elderly father has been admitted to hospital. He's not well and he ...Show more
Live. Fight. Survive: An Ex-British Soldier’s Account of Courage, Resistance and Defiance Fighting for Ukraine Against Russia by Shaun Pinner
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The extraordinary recount of one man's experience in the Ukrainian war and his miraculous escape from Russian imprisonment . . . Shaun Pinner was a retired and decorated British soldier, living a peaceful and happy life in Mariupol with his Ukrainian family. What follows is the true story of his six mon ...Show more
Prague in My Bones by Jindra Tichy
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Jindra Tichý has a fascinating story to tell – one of exile and survival, of distance and painful longing. Czech born and bred, she was a lecturer in philosophy at Charles University in Prague when the country was invaded by Soviet troops in August 1968. In 1969 she was forced to flee her homeland with ...Show more
Broken Girl: A true story by Bradley Trevor Greive, Caroline Laner Breure
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT PENGUIN BLOOM Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed by a speeding police car.A year later, following dark months in a coma and painful rehabi ...Show more
Facing Fear: The First Woman to Sail Solo Around Antarctica by Lisa Blair
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Facing Fear is the inspiring true story of Lisa Blair who sailed into the history books on 25 July 2017 by becoming the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica. Seventy-two days into her circumnavigation, when Lisa was more than 1000 nautical miles from land, the mast of Climate Action Now came cras ...Show more
Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power behind the crown by Valentine Low
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years watching the public face the Royal family chooses to present to the world in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, with Charles ...Show more
I Am Malala (Teen Edition) by Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
Diddly Squat: 'Til The Cows Come Home (#2 Diddly Squat) by Jeremy Clarkson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Welcome back to Clarkson's farm.At the end of Jeremy's first year, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him with profits of e144.And while he's mastered the art of moaning, challenges still abound. Who knew loading a trailer was more demanding than flying a gunship? That cows were more dangerous than motor-racing ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral History by Those Who Were There by Steven Gaines, Peter Brown
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing ...Show more