The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Featuring original interviews with booksellers and librarians, James Patterson presents a new non-fiction title that highlights the magic of books. To be a bookseller or librarian... You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. A brilliant listener. A person who creates a kind of magi ...Show more
The Ship Beneath the Ice - The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the depths of the most hostile sea on Earth. The Ship Beneath the Ice is the astonishing story of the ship and its discovery, told by Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration on the Endurance22 Expedition.'As ...Show more
Finding Hildasay - How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness by Christian Lewis; Ben Fogle (Foreword by)
27.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The Sunday Times Bestseller and featured on Ben Fogle's New Lives in the Wild.Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK - his dog Jet in tow - and rebuilds his life, step by step. With a foreword from longtime supporter Ben Fogle, Finding HIldasay is his inspiring true story of rec ...Show more
Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
31.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
JR Moehringer grew up listening for a voice, the voice of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before JR spoke his first words. As a boy, JR would press his ear to a battered clock radio, straining to hear in that resonant voice the secrets of identity and masculinity. When the voice disapp ...Show more
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Read the book that inspired upcoming major motion picture starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.'Remarkable' - the GuardianSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story ...Show more
A Beer in the Loire by Tommy Barnes
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Tommy Barnes was at breaking point, frustrated by a dead-end job, fed up with renting in London and, to cap it all, failing to make it as a stand-up comedian. But he didn’t break - instead he made himself redundant and took off to France with girlfriend Rose to pursue his dream of brewing beer. Settled ...Show more
Faking It: My Life in Transition by Kyle Mewburn
38.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Kyle Mewburn grew up in the sunburnt, unsophisticated Brisbane suburbs of the 1960s and '70s in a household with little love and no books, with a lifelong feeling of being somehow wrong - like 'strawberry jam in a spinach can'. In this book, Kyle describes this early life and her journey to becoming her ...Show more
Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif by Najaf Mazari, Robert Hillman
32.95 NZD
Category: Memoirs
This book traces an Afghan refugee's extraordinary journey-from his early life as a shepherd boy in the mountains of Northern Afghanistan to his forced exile after being captured and tortured by the Taliban, to incarceration in an Australian detention centre...and finally to freedom. A poignant and powe ...Show more
A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: The Life Of William Dampier by Diana Preston, Michael Preston
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
"William Dampier, (1651 -1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for exploration and scientific research. mong many extraordinary achievements Dampier mapped the winds and ...Show more
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling illustrated package Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newtonas famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of Americaas Black Panther Party. From ...Show more
Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story (PB) by Robert Hardman
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
An insightful and authoritative account of the first year of King Charles's reign by royal expert and the bestselling author of Queen of Our Times, Robert Hardman. The death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 was a moment of profound shock and grief for the nation. She had been a steadfast presenc ...Show more
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reig ...Show more