English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The moving story of how, in just three generations, an ancient way of life was lost - as witnessed from the fields of a small Lake District farmAs a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient landscape- a ...Show more
Anderton - His Life and Times by David Grant
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Jim Anderton, the Labour rebel who founded a new political movement and became deputy prime minister, is the subject of this compelling, warts-and-all biography by award-winning historian David Grant. From his position as the Party's most outspoken president, Jim Anderton became a backbencher in David L ...Show more
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon by Simon Fenwick
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
During the interwar years, the future of the country house seemed precarious. After the horror of the First World War, resulting death duties brought about massive land sales - a quarter of England exchanged hands - and about four hundred houses were either sold or pulled down. A whole way of life was d ...Show more
A Dolphin Called Jock: An injured dolphin, a lost young woman, a story of hope by Melody Horrill
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The compelling, heart-warming story of how a traumatised young woman found peace through her friendship with an injured dolphin called Jock. When Melody Horrill began communications at the University of South Australia she was a troubled and lost young woman, hiding behind a carefully crafted exterior. ...Show more
From There to Here - A Memoir by Joe Bennett
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty. Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty books, and now, at long last, a memoir. From There to Here describes a childhood of fishing, cricket, friends, a dog, some mild molestation and a few deat ...Show more
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure whose extraordi ...Show more
Fighting Fate by Justin Yerbury
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Pursued by 'the beast' of motor neurone disease, groundbreaking scientist Justin Yerbury wrote this extraordinary memoir entirely with eye movements. It is the sharpest possible lens on the value of life and hope. Justin Yerbury made a promise to his mother while she was dying of motor neurone disease ...Show more
Sylvia Pankhurst - Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A wonderful book ... Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia's extraordinary life' The Times'A masterpiece' Vanessa Redgrave Born into one of Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel. A free spirit and radical visionary, history placed her in the shadow of her famous mo ...Show more
Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Terrific... Very funny' Guardian What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawe ...Show more
What It Feels Like for a Girl by Paris Lees
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I don't know what it is about heights. I'm scared of 'em. Dead scared. But not of fallin'. I'm scared of jumpin'. Coz whenever I'm high up, I get this overwhelmin' urge to just... leap off.' Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for "talkin' li ...Show more
The Woman with the Cure by Lynn Cullen
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
She gave up everything - and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and ‘50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one’s life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its ...Show more
Life Keeps Me Dancing: 108 years well lived, grounded in creativity, adventure and love by Eileen Kramer
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I am not old. I have just been here for a long time.' Eileen Kramer has lived the most extraordinary life. Born just after Australia entered World War I, she embraced creativity and adventure from an early age. She danced and painted murals in Karachi; worked as an artist's model in Paris and London; ...Show more