Somebody I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell
24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
How do you build a life when all that you know is changing?How do you conceive of love when you can no longer recognise those who mean the most to you? A phenomenal memoir - the first of its kind - Somebody I Used to Know is both a heart-rending tribute to the woman Wendy Mitchell once was, and a brave ...Show more
The Body - A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
55.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functi ...Show more
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
30.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife ... But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clie ...Show more
Really? by Jeremy Clarkson
38.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In this collection of classic Clarkson, he's pulled together the car columns and stories with which he made his name. Irreverent, damn funny and offensive to almost everyone, this is writing with its foot to the floor, the brake lines cut and the speed limit smashed to smithereens. Sit back and enjoy th ...Show more
Freak Kingdom - Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism by Timothy Denevi
44.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The story of Hunter S. Thompson's crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price he paid for itHunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of ...Show more
Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir by Jayson Greene
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
'A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss' Cheryl Strayed 'Funny, lucid, and deeply generous - proof that a masterful writer can make from his own specifics a universal story with lessons for us all' Lucy Kalanithi, wife of Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becom ...Show more
Native Son: The Writer's Memoir by Witi Ihimaera
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This is the second memoir of a remarkable Maori writer and of the living myths that inspired him at the beginning of his career. Look at him, the young man on the cover. The year is 1972, he is 28, his first book is about to be published, and he has every reason to kick up his heels. But behind that joy ...Show more
Expeditions Unpacked by Ed Stafford
59.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
"A fascinating and unique look at these celebrated expeditions. Ed Stafford knows all too well how important an explorer's kit can be and this brilliant book gives great insight into the role it plays." --Sir Ranulph Fiennes In this unique and enthralling book, explorer and survivalist Ed Stafford curat ...Show more
Dottir -The Making of a Two-Time CrossFit Champion by Katrin Davidsdottir
44.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
This is a memoir by two-time CrossFit Games champion, Katrin Davidsdottir.DOTTIR is two-time consecutive CrossFit Games Champion Katrin Davidsdottir's inspiring and poignant memoir. As one of only two women in history to have won the title of "Fittest Woman on Earth" twice, Davidsdottir knows all about ...Show more
The Art of Growing Up by John Marsden
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
When I hear parents say 'I want my children to enjoy their childhood; there'll be time when they're older to learn about those things', I hear the voices of those who are scared of the vastness of the universe. These adults have a view of childhood as some kind of discrete interval, rather than just a f ...Show more
Nobody's Victim: The Fight Against Psychos, Pervs and Trolls by Carrie Goldberg
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
An unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't know exists-one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off-and the incredible story of how one lawyer turned her own hell into a revolution. "We are all a moment away from having our life overtaken by somebody hell-bent on our dest ...Show more
Is There Still Sex in the City? by Candace Bushnell
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty. Set be ...Show more