From Snow to Ash: Solitude, soul-searching and survival on Australia's toughest hiking trail by Anthony Sharwood
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The incredible, inspiring story of a solo journey through Australia's toughest and most beautiful hiking trail - the Australian Alps Walking Track - for fans of INTO THE WILD by Jon Krakauer or Cheryl Strayed's WILD and anyone who dreams of iconic wilderness walks. At the start of the hellish, fiery Au ...Show more
Russian Roulette - The Life and Times of Graham Greene by Richard Greene
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A restless traveller, he was a witness to many of the key events of modern history - including the origins of the Vi ...Show more
Munkey Diaries by Jane Birkin
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Jane Birkin - actor, singer, songwriter and model - attained international fame with her decade-long musical and personal relationship with Serge Gainsbourg, which featured their internationally controversial hit song 'Je t'aime...moi no plus'. She has also enjoyed a notable career as an actress in Brit ...Show more
Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks - My life in the Death Zone by Nirmal Purja
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
My comfort zone begins where most individuals quit. As a kid in Nepal, I went barefoot because my family had nothing. That's how I developed the resilience I needed for joining the Gurkhas - one of the most fearless forces in the British Army. Then against all odds, I became the first ever Gurkha soldie ...Show more
Just Ignore Him by Alan Davies
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastating humour. Shifting between his 1970s upbringing and his life today, Davies moves poignantly from innocence to experience to the clarity of hindsi ...Show more
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing. Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries abo ...Show more
Pour Me: A Life by A. A. Gill
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
'A. A. Gill, the man who makes a living getting beneath the skin of things, whether it's television, restaurants or places round the world - has skinned himself' Vanity Fair A. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon. He ...Show more
King's Counsellor - Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles Edited by Duff Hart-Davis by Alan Lascelles; Duff Hart-Davis (Editor)
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
As Assistant Private Secretary to four monarchs, 'Tommy' Lascelles had a ringside seat from which to observe the workings of the royal household and Downing Street during the first half of the 20th century. These fascinating diaries begin with Edward VIII's abdication and end with George VI's death and ...Show more
Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success of Platoon in 1 ...Show more
Paul Kelly: the Man, the Music & the Life in Between by Stuart Coupe
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Renowned music journalist Stuart Coupe examines the life of an Australian music icon - honest, revealing and a must-read for Paul Kelly fans and music lovers alike. He's been called Australia's Bob Dylan and likened to Springsteen and Neil Young, but Paul Kelly stands alone as a chronicler of his and ou ...Show more
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
Judy Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, discovered an extraordinary story of women who fought the Nazis. The "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with Nazis, bought them ...Show more
Never Leave a Man Behind: Around the Falklands and Rowing across the Pacific by Mick Dawson
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The stories of two veterans - one traumatised, one blind - who rediscover themselves with the help of a friend in the course of two epic ocean adventures, kayaking around the Falklands and rowing across the Pacific. Mick Dawson tells the story of kayaking around the Falkland Islands with friend and fel ...Show more