Louise Sutherland: Spinning the Globe by Bronwen Wall
20.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Series: New Zealand Cycling Legends | Reading Level: very good
Louise was a small woman with a big heart. She knew virtually nothing about bicycles, except what really mattered, and so became a cycling legend without winning a single race. Instead Louise Sutherland planned her own route - one that was far longer and rougher than any Tour de France. She was the firs ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
26.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Ame ...Show more
The Way, My Way by Bill Bennett
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A revised 10th Anniversary edition of the classic memoir that many say is the best Camino book they´ve read. Bill Bennett´s book has now been made into a major movie, and reading it you´ll see why. Written in a humorous self-deprecating style reminiscent of Bill Bryson, it tells the story of a stubbor ...Show more
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'Your friends would probably describe me as nice. But guess what? I can't stand your friends. I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm highly manipulative. I don't care what other people think. I'm capable of almost anything.' Sociopath: A Memoir is at once a mesmerizing tale of a life lived on the edge of the law ...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
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
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
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty by Ash Barty
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where and who I am today. WINNER OF THE ABIA AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHY 2023 I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, right? But for me and my team it's ...Show more
Landlines by Raynor Winn
30.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Raynor knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he - can he? - set out with her on another healing walk?Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour and their hope is that it can work its magic agai ...Show more