A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Series: Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empireWithin minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to hel ...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 Gift of Hope by Danielle Steel
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
In her powerful memoir "His Bright Light", Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In "A Gift of Hope", she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of service that enriched her life beyond what she could imagine. For eleven years, Dan ...Show more
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed " Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to ...Show more
A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life by Cliff Richard
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
In this new and personal memoir looking back over 65 years in music, Cliff Richard tells his own stories behind the songs and sounds that have stayed in his heart, and defined his life and times. Foreword by Bob Stanley. On a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Web ...Show more
A History of Silence : A Memoir by Lloyd Jones
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
"A daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today."--The Guardian "Jones' rejection of isolationism and imaginative embrace of so much that the world has to offer make him a literary figure to w ...Show more
A History of Silence - A Memoir by Lloyd Jones
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
The 2011 earthquake which shook Christchurch to its core led Lloyd Jones to investigate his own foundations and family past. And so begins a quest to revisit what has been buried by a legacy of silence. Piecing together his own memories with clues of what has been deliberately forgotten by his parents, ...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 Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
With BREAKING BAD, Bryan Cranston created moments that had the world on the edge of their seats and coined catchphrases that became famous all over the globe. Now, at last, we can learn of the man behind one of TV's most successful programmes ever. Bryan Cranston's profile has skyrocketed, due to his po ...Show more
A Life on Gorge River - New Zealand's Remotest Family by Robert Long
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Robert Long and his family - wife Catherine, and children Christan (17) and Robyn (14) - live in complete isolation, in a hut two days' walk south of Haast in South Westland. Robert has lived there for nearly 30 years; Catherine for 20 and the kids all their lives. Their only contact with the outside wo ...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