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
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final years John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Pr ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$59.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee by Joanna Lumley
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
A sparkling celebration of our much-loved Queen Elizabeth II for her Platinum Jubilee including special writings and illuminating insights around key moments in her 70-year reign, introduced and edited by her biggest fan Joanna Lumley. In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrates seventy years as Queen and He ...Show more
A River Rules My Life by Mona Anderson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
The original and all-time classic of high-country station life in New Zealand Mount Algidus, the author's home, was one of the great high-country sheep stations of Canterbury, New Zealand. It occupied a mountain range between two ice rivers and lay in the very shadow of the Southern Alps. Published with ...Show more
A Small Town in Ukraine - The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before.Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated- Krakowiec (Krah- ...Show more
A Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Loss, Exile and Hope by Gulchehra Hoja
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
A powerful and urgent memoir by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja - a remarkable woman who went from being a beloved star on Chinese children's TV to a journalist whose reporting on the oppression of her people led to her entire extended family being imprisoned.A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A ...Show more
A Train in Winter - A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: very good
On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. The youngest was a schoolgir ...Show more
A World to Win : The Life and Thought of Karl Marx by Sven-Eric Liedman
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Description: The globalised world of the twenty-first century has many parallels with that of the period running up to the cataclysm of 1914, namely the world predicted by Karl Marx. Communications go that much faster, but this is a difference of degree, not type. People, messages, and ideas are flung a ...Show more