Small Island by Andrea Levy
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: good
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as many other awards, Andrea Levy's SMALL ISLAND is a delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel of empire, prejudice, war and love. It has now been adapted into a major BBC TV drama. It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern S ...Show more
After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The groundbreaking debut novel from Maggie O'Farrell, AFTER YOU'D GONE is a stunning, best-selling story of wrenching love and grief. A distraught young woman boards a train at King's Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Wa ...Show more
So Anyway ... by John Cleese
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter's Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripa ...Show more
The Envoy from Mirror City - An Autobiography Volume Three
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The Envoy from Mirror City is the third book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holroyd as 'one of the greatest autobiographies written this century.' It describes her travels overseas and entry into the saving world of writers and the 'Mirror City' that sustains them. Fir ...Show more
The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling.After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman ...Show more
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$27.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour and style, with tribute paid everywhere from Lord Byron to Casablanca. But who was this young widow - the 'Veuve' - Clicquot, whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and Russia, and how did she rise to celebrity and fortune? Newly widowed, s ...Show more
All Blacks Don't Cry: A Story of Hope by John Kirwan
$42.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: Very Good
At my worst moments, I lost all sense of hope for the future. As I began to slowly get better, I began to be able to say to myself, 'This will pass, you'll get through this. Hang on to hope.' John Kirwan was one of the most devastating wingers New Zealand, and world, rugby had ever seen. A prominent and ...Show more
An Unquenchable Thirst by Mary Johnson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
An Unquenchable Thirst is the story of Mary Johnson's twenty years as a Missionary of Charity working for Mother Teresa in service to the world's poor. It is a fascinating depiction of the daily struggle to live a life of religious service. At seventeen, Johnson experienced her calling when she saw a ph ...Show more
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume o ...Show more
Rifling through my Drawers by Clarissa Dickson Wright
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
With her inimitable wit, treasury of tales and outspoken views, Clarissa Dickson Wright opens her diary and takes us on a journey around Britain and her life. As celebrated cook and champion of the countryside, Clarissa recalls episodes from her life and describes her encounters with everyone from loca ...Show more
Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more
Only Two Seats Left : The Incredible Contiki Story by John Anderson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In 1962 a young New Zealander left home for a one year trip to Europe. He returned some 20 years later with a wife, four children and the internationally renowned tour company - Contiki Holidays.Written by the founder of Contiki, Only Two Seats Left is the incredible story of how a simple idea with a ...Show more