Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust by James Comey
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
This will not come as a surprise to anyone, including even to the President's most ardent defenders: Donald Trump lied to me from the start Saving Justice is James Comey's searing memoir and guide to reclaiming truth in the institutions of justice, which have been so badly damaged under Trump. Whether o ...Show more
Untethered: A Memoir by Hayley Katzen
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
When urban academic Hayley Katzen moves to a remote Australian cattle property to live with her farmer girlfriend, she hopes, at last, to find home. But this is no happy-ever-after tree change. Lecture halls, law reform and the arts are replaced with castrating calves, shovelling manure, fire-fighting ...Show more
Make Life Beautiful by Shea McGee; Syd McGee
32.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Confidence in your craft is built by learning from one experience at a time. Now you can sharpen your skills, focus on your goals, and achieve your dreams with the inspirational, behind-the-scenes story of Syd and Shea McGee, the stars of the new Netflix series Dream Home Makeover. For the one million- ...Show more
Still Lives: A Memoir of Gaza by Marilyn Garson
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Four years, two wars and one most unlikely social enterprise. Marilyn Garson was an experienced aid professional who created jobs at the edge of war. In 2011, she was invited to move to the Gaza Strip. Friends warned her that nothing worked behind the Gaza blockade. Unable to resist that challenge, Mari ...Show more
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant ride, it's in those wildflowers dancing on their way to ...Show more
How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes. It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that made the late Hans Rosling, author of worldwide bestseller Factfulness, the most popular researc ...Show more
The Best of Me by David Sedaris
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A lavish gift edition of David Sedaris's best stories, spanning his spectacular bestselling career. Hand-picked by David himself, these are stories that will make you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time, from "the funniest man alive" (Time Out New York). What could be a more tempting Christmas gif ...Show more
Like Father Like Son - A family story by Michael Parkinson
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
A look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father John William was, and remains, a family love stor ...Show more
Can You Make This Thing Go Faster? by Jeremy Clarkson
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Clarkson returns to set our off-kilter world to rights yet again, in a brand new, hilarious collection of stories and observations. From smug muesli-munchers to the dreariest parts of London, there has been plenty of reason to abandon all hope in these deeply troubling times. But with Clarkson in your c ...Show more
Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
29.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Natasha Trethewey was born in Mississippi in the 60s to a black mother and a white father. When she was six, Natasha's parents divorced, and she and her mother moved to Atlanta. There, her mother met the man who would become her second husband, and Natasha's stepfather. While she was still a child, Nat ...Show more
House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Seven brothers and sisters. All of them classically trained musicians. One was Young Musician of the Year and performed for the royal family. The eldest has released her first album, showcasing the works of Clara Schumann. These siblings don't come from the rarefied environment of elite music schools, b ...Show more
Girl with a Sniper Rifle - An Eastern Front Memoir by Yulia Zhukova
35.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In this vivid first-hand account we gain unique access to the inner workings of Stalin's Central Women's Sniper School, near Podolsk in Western Russia.Luliia was a dedicated member of the Komsomol (the Soviet communist youth organisation) and her parents worked for the NKVD. She started at the sniper sc ...Show more