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
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
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
The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Edmund de Waal
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
"264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox- potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the netsuke, they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined The ...Show more
1 - 6 of 6