The Crossway by Guy Stagg
24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Winner - Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2019.Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. 'An extraordinary travelogue, strange and brilliant' i In 2013 Guy Stagg made a pilgrimage from Canterbury to Jerusalem. Though a non-believer, he began the journey after suffering several years of mental ...Show more
An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival by Françoise Malby-Anthony, Katja Willemsen
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
A heart-warming sequel to the international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony's wife Fran oise Malby-Anthony. A chic Parisienne, Fran oise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve. But then she fell in love with conservationist Lawrence Anthony and eve ...Show more
Rudolf Nureyev - The Life by Julie Kavanagh
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW 'A gripping account of an extraordinary life' Daily TelegraphBorn on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and off stage. Nureyev's achievements a ...Show more
No Man's Land: The Untold Story of Automation on QF72 by Kevin Sullivan
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
nstinctively, I release my pressure on the sidestick. Out of my subconscious, a survival technique from a previous life emerges: Neutralise! I'm not in control so I must neutralise controls. I never imagined I'd use this part of my military experience in a commercial airliner ... On routine flight QF72 ...Show more
From Scratch - A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldana! **A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food ...Show more
Blood and Sand : 10th Anniversary Edition by Frank Gardner
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
On the June 6, 2004, while on assignment in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the dust, a figure stood over him and pumped four more bullets into hi ...Show more
We Hope for Better Things by Erin Bartels
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
"In this powerful first novel . . . Bartels successfully weaves American history into a deeply moving story of heartbreak, long-held secrets, and the bonds of family."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "A forbidden interracial marriage, an escaped slave, an expectant mother waiting for her Union soldie ...Show more
Wild Horses of the Summer Sun: Iceland, Freedom and the Gift of Female Friendship by Tory Bilski
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A wondrous story of adventure and friendship. Woman in the Wilderness meets Wild.
Memoirs of a Book Thief by Alessandro Tota (Text by); Pierre Van Hove (Artist)
35.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Daniel Brodin - bibliophile, book thief, self-proclaimed poet - enters the heated atmosphere of the Cafe Serbier, home of the Parisian literati. A poetry night is taking place and, when one luminary suggests giving the floor to an unknown, Daniel impulsively puts himself forward. Under pressure, he reci ...Show more
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield
38.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in.When Gustav ...Show more
Couchsurfing in Russia: Friendships and Misadventures Behind Putin's Curtain by Stephan Orth
38.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 5.5 Travel
'In the late summer of 2016' writes award-winning travel writer Stephan Orth, 'a journey to Russia feels like visiting enemy territory.' In this humorous and thought-provoking book, Orth ventures through that vast and mysterious territory to uncover the real, unfiltered Russia not seen in today's headl ...Show more
More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
50.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own terms Throughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings along the way ...Show more