The Forbidden Daughter by Zipora Klein Jakob
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan’s survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belonging. Elida Friedman was never supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite th ...Show more
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a r ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You? by Genevieve Kingston
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A deeply moving memoir of a young daughter, her dying mother - and the trail of letters and gifts she left behind.'Her messages met me like guideposts in a dark forest; if her words couldn't point the way, at least they offered the comfort of knowing someone had been there before' Ten days before Gwen K ...Show more
My My!: ABBA Through the Ages by Giles Smith
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
On the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo – the song, not the battle - one super-fan sits down to listen to the ABBA Gold album from start to finish, looking back over the half-century he has spent in the company of ABBA’s music, and attempting to unlock the secrets of its hold on him – and on all of us. ...Show more
Portrait of a War Artist: A young doctor's Vietnam wartime experience in words and pictures by John Gillies
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography
In this captivating and beautifully illustrated memoir, John Gillies vividly recalls his months as a member of the Otago University Medical Company on an active service tour of duty in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Still a medical student at the time, his youthful admiration of New Zealand war a ...Show more
CSNY: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young by Peter Doggett
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An engaging and illuminating biography focused on the formative and highly influential early years of "rock's first supergroup" (Rolling Stone) Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young--when they were the most successful, influential, and politically potent band in America. After making their marks in popular ba ...Show more
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Your friends would probably describe me as nice. But guess what? I can't stand your friends. I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm highly manipulative. I don't care what other people think. I'm capable of almost anything.' Sociopath: A Memoir is at once a mesmerizing tale of a life lived on the edge of the law ...Show more
The Times Lives Less Ordinary by Nigel Farndale (Editor); Times Books (Editor)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 85 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. Be they dons, pop stars, vicars, MPs, rugby players or aristocrats, each has marched to the beat of their own drum and led a life far from ordina ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
** Winner 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction ** A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy ...Show more
All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral History by Those Who Were There by Steven Gaines, Peter Brown
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing ...Show more
The Twat Files: A Hilarious Sort-Of Memoir of Mistakes, Mishaps and Mess-Ups by Dawn French
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A hugely relatable, funny, honest and inspirational 'memoir of sorts' in which Dawn celebrates what it means to be gloriously, messily human. When I was younger I wanted to be an interesting, sophisticated, semi-heroic, multi-layered person. BUT. That kind of perfect is impossible. Being an actual twa ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This? A Memoir by Sam Neill
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more