London's No 1 Dog-Walking Agency: On the hunt for the perfect job, with the help of man's best friend by Kate Macdougall
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Kate Macdougall always knew her heart wasn't really in her job at Sotheby's. All around her, her friends were finding their dream jobs and whooshing up career ladders, fulfilled and glowing with success, flush with easy credit. After yet another breakage, this time of two precious porcelain pigeons, she ...Show more
Last Shot (HB) by Jock Zonfrillo
49.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens. From reckless drug addict to one of Australia's top chefs and television stars: MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo's powerful life story will shock and inspire. Jock's life spiralled out o ...Show more
My Remarkable Journey by Joylette Hylick, Katherine Johnson
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a century of turmoil and change. In 2015, at the age of 97, Katherine ...Show more
Killing Time: Short stories from the long road home by Jimmy Barnes
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vintage Jimmy. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing Time shares more than forty yarns reflecting an epic life - from an encounter with a soul legend in Mem ...Show more
The Puma Years - A Memoir by Laura Coleman
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating journey in the Amazon jungle, where she fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life. Laura was in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to backpack in Bolivia. Fate landed he ...Show more
138 Dates: The true story of one woman's search for everything by Rebekah Campbell
35.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Gripping, authentic and inspiring, Rebekah Campbell's quest to find love and happiness is packed with hilarious mistakes and insights that can help us all become better at relationships. 'This book will change lives. I couldn't put it down.' Fleur Brown, Founding Team TEDxSydney.'I laughed, learned a lo ...Show more
Daughter of The River Country by Dianne O'Brien
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
From a victim of the 'stolen generations' comes a remarkable memoir of abuse, survival - and ultimately hope.Born in country NSW in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from her Aboriginal mother. Raised in the era of the White Australia policy, Dianne grows up believing her adoptive Irish mother ...Show more
Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967-75 by Richard Thompson
45.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
“Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing a punch.” —The Wall Street JournalAn intimate look at the early years of one of the world’s most significant ...Show more
12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons in Happiness by Charlie Corbett
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Can you recognise the cheerful chirrups of the house sparrow? A song thrush singing out at winter's darkest hour? Or the beautiful haunting call of the curlew?At a time of great anxiety and uncertainty, while coping with the untimely death of his mother, Charlie Corbett realised his perspective on life ...Show more
The Freedom Circus by Sue Smethurst
26.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A remarkable true story of one family's daring escape from Poland during the Second World War.'A story of extraordinary bravery, resilience and love that needed to be told.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzWritten by award-winning author and journalist Sue Smethurst, whose husband is ...Show more
The Beauty in Breaking - A Memoir by Michele Harper
30.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book "Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring." --The New York Times Book ReviewAs seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more An emergency room physi ...Show more
Unnatural Causes by Dr Richard Shepherd
28.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak ... Dr Richard Shepherd is the UK's foremost forensic pathologist, his job to understand the deaths which may have no natural cause. From crime scene to court room, his findings are crucial to the pursuit of justice. His wo ...Show more