From the Centre - A Writer's Life by Patricia Grace
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
'We live by the sea, which hems and stitches the scalloped edges of the land.' Renowned writer Patricia Grace begins her remarkable memoirs beside her beloved Hongoeka Bay. It is the place she has returned to throughout her life, and fought for, one of many battles she has faced- 'It was when I first we ...Show more
Frost: That Was the Life That Was: The Authorised Biography by Neil Hegarty
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Sir David Frost, who died suddenly in August 2013, was the only person to have met and interviewed every British Prime Minister since Harold Wilson as well as seven Presidents of the United States. Other world leaders he interviewed included Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, Henry Kissi ...Show more
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Shadow of a Secret Nuclear Facility by Kristen Iversen
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
It is the early 1950s. Kristen Iversen is enjoying a carefree childhood surrounded by desert and mountains. But just a few miles down the road, the US government decides to build a secret nuclear weapons facility at Rocky Flats. Kirsten and her siblings jump streams, ride horses, live a happy outdoors l ...Show more
Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scotty Bowers
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
The jaw-dropping confessions of the man who fulfilled the secret fantasies of Hollywood's most glittering stars and royalty. Scotty Bowers, a dashing young ex-Marine exuding sex appeal, arrived in Hollywood in 1946 and quickly caught the attention of many of the town's stars. Scotty's attitude to sex an ...Show more
Gaia Calls: South Sea Voices, Dolphins, Sharks and Rainforests by Wade Doak
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Gaia Calls compiles memoirs and descriptions of Wade Doak's life as a young man in the Solomon Islands living among the islanders, to years of dolphin research, diving adventures, and more. Wade's adventures begin with his wife, Jan, living with atoll dwellers and the shark callers of Laulasi in the Sol ...Show more
Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance by Stephen Grady
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy. September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece. A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland, knowing that he must finally confront his past. He ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more
Geoff Murphy - A Life on Film by Geoff Murphy
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: good-very good
The majorly entertaining memoir from a major entertainer - Geoff 'Goodbye Pork Pie' Murphy tells it like it really was in this director's cut of his life and times. "I'm taking this bloody car to Invercargill!" It was the line that had cinema audiences cheering. Goodbye Pork Pie became an instant classi ...Show more
George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle by Philip Norman
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
From the premiere Beatles biographer--author of the New York Times bestseller John Lennon: The Life and the million-copy selling Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation--a rare and revealing portrait of George Harrison, the most misunderstood and mysterious Beatle, based on decades-long research and unp ...Show more
Germaine: The Life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
As a student in Melbourne, Elizabeth Kleinhenz heard frequent talk of this almost mythical figure, Germaine Greer. Urged on by her mother, a first wave feminist, she read The Female Eunuch, a clarion call that rallied women to assert their female power, and, like her mother and millions of others across ...Show more
Germaine: The Life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
As a student in Melbourne, Elizabeth Kleinhenz heard frequent talk of this almost mythical figure, Germaine Greer. Urged on by her mother, a first wave feminist, she read The Female Eunuch, a clarion call that rallied women to assert their female power,and, like her mother and millions of others across ...Show more
Give Us This Day: A Memoir of Family and Exile by Helena Wisniewska Brow
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
In June 1944, when 14-year-old Stefan Wisniewski stood by his mother's dusty Tehran grave, he knew his world was about to change again, forever. Give Us This Day: a Memoir of Family and Exile explores the story of one of the 732 Polish child survivors of wartime Soviet deportation offered unlikely refug ...Show more