1924: The Year That Made Hitler by Peter Ross Range
$29.99 NZD
$70.00 (57% off)
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Adolf Hitler spent 1924 away from society and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Behind bars in a prison near Munich, Hitler passed the year with deep reading and intensive writing, a year of slowly walking gravel paths while working feverishly on his book Mein Kampf. This was ...Show more
96 Facts About Taylor Swift: Quizzes, Quotes, Questions, and More! With Bonus Journal Pages for Writing! by Arie Kaplan
$13.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Series: 96 Facts About ... Ser.
The ultimate fact book and journal for fans of Taylor Swift! Packed with fun facts, quick quizzes, and bonus pages for journaling, this is a must-have for any Swiftie.
96 Facts about Timothée Chalamet - Quizzes, Quotes, Questions, and More! with Bonus Journal Pages for Writing! by Arie Kaplan; Risa Rodil (Illustrator)
$13.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Series: 96 Facts About ... Ser.
The ultimate fact book and journal for fans of Timothée Chalamet! Packed with fun facts, quick quizzes, and bonus pages for journaling, this is a must-have for any fan of Timothée Chalamet.
A Bit Mental: One Man's Mission to Lilo the Waikato & Live More Awesome by Jimi Hunt
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
In an effort to conquer his depression, Jimi Hunt decided to travel the length of New Zealand's longest river...on a lilo. Jimi Hunt is a man who has spent most of his life doing ridiculous things for his own amusement. Things like building the country's biggest waterslide; playing golf through the stre ...Show more
A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
$29.99 NZD
$49.99 (40% off)
Category: Biography/Autobiography
On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello stands the Villa Cimbrone - a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters that move through Michael Holroyd's new book are destined never to meet - they lived through different eras and reside in different countries. Yet the Villa Cimbrone unites them ...Show more
A Fabulous Failure: How New Zealand's Queen of Property Turned Failure into Fabulous by Nikki Connors
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Failure is just another life lesson. Learn from it and move on. Known as New Zealand's Queen of Property Investment, Nicolette Connors' life has been one hell of a rollercoaster ride. Enjoying mega riches and business success, she also danced with the dark side, enduring bankruptcy, domestic violence an ...Show more
A Fish In the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
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
A Home-Grown Cook: The Dame Alison Holst Story by Alison Holst
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Dame Alison Holst holds more titles than her damehood suggests: she's been invariably described as 'Mother of the Nation', 'Queen of the Kitchen' and 'a groundbreaker in the culinary world'. In the sixties, Dame Alison singlehandedly changed the way women prepared food for their families with her legend ...Show more
A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood by Helen Mort
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
A stunning memoir of motherhood and mountaineering by one of Britain's most gifted poets, for readers of H is for Hawk and The Outrun. Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death. Helen Mort has always been ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more
A Month at the Back of My Brain - A third memoir by Kevin Ireland
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
As he enters his 90th year on the planet, Kevin Ireland describes his third memoir as a process of "sweeping up all the reflective wrappers and the tinsel, and describing how, in the setting sun, they glitter with the brilliant romance of nostalgia." Unlike his earlier two memoirs, one of which won a Na ...Show more
A Perfect Gentleman:The Sir Wilson Whineray story by Howitt, Bob
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
: He features in the International Rugby Board Hall of Fame, the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, and the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame. He is Sir Wilson Whineray, one of New Zealand's favourite sons, a legendary achiever in both rugby and business. This is the man who had all of Cardiff Arms Park ...Show more