George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Andrew Roberts's magnificent new biography portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty. He was a de ...Show more
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps When Jozsef Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five m ...Show more
Heartbake: A bittersweet memoir by Charlotte Ree
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'The discovery of cooking for others again ignited something in me-it gave me meaning, and in some ways it brought me back to life.' In this heartfelt memoir of food, love and self-discovery, Charlotte Ree takes us along her journey of learning to cook in the wake of a divorce that left her feeling uns ...Show more
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"A pitch-perfect memoir: stylish, erudite, touchingly honest and darkly funny." Jacqueline Wilson"We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time ... But sometimes we are unlucky enough to be on the trapdoor when the lever is pulled. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting ro ...Show more
Love From Venice: A golden summer on the Grand Canal by Gill Johnson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the summer of 1957, anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, while rebelling against her family, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in London and travelled to Venice to take up a job teaching English to an aristocratic Italian family. Lov ...Show more
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert by Brian Herbert
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of generations of readers. It is one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, has won awards, sold millions of copies around the world and spawned ...Show more
Fly Away Paul: How Paul McCartney survived the Beatles and found his Wings by Lesley-Ann Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
No comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published. A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the stat ...Show more
Find a Way: One Untamed and Courageous Life by Diana Nyad
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY BEHIND NETFLIX'S UPCOMING BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE NYAD.After four attempts, sixty-four year-old Diana Nyad finally swam from Cuba to the Florida Keys. She swam for fifty-three hours, across one hundred and ten miles. Find a Way is her account of the epic quest which led to t ...Show more
The Forbidden Daughter by Zipora Klein Jakob
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan’s survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belonging. Elida Friedman was never supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite th ...Show more
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more
Run for Your Life: The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced Into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets by Sue Williams
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick moved to R ...Show more
Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa by Cato Pedder
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Moederland is a courageous and modern appraisal of what it means to be descended from the people who created the ultraracist apartheid system in South Africa. Illuminating its turbulent history through the lives of her female ancestors, it is a history of South Africa like no other, told from the perspe ...Show more