Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A Guardian book of the yearA Times book of the yearA Spectator book of the yearA Daily Mail book of the yearAn Evening Standard book of the yearA Stella Magazine book of the year From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kit ...Show more
Who I Am by Melanie C
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, tells her life story in her own words and gives a full and honest account of what life was really like in The Spice Girls. For the first time ever, Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, tells her amazing life story in her own words and gives a full and honest account of what life was ...Show more
Keep in a Cool Place - The First Winter at Vanda Station, Antarctica by Simon Cutfield; Allen Riordan
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography
In 1969 Al Riordan, a US Exchange Scientist, joined Simon Cutfield and three other New Zealanders to spend a year at Vanda Station on the shores of Lake Vanda in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica. The men lived in a strange world - a snowless place that had not seen a glacier for millions of years. The surf ...Show more
Literature in 30 Seconds or Less!: 100 Classics Cut Down for the Pace of the Modern World by Tim Rayborn
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Build your brain and blitz through the canon with Literature in 30 Seconds of Less!, a collection of illuminating synopses of the great works. Bursting with illuminating synopses of humanity's great works, you no longer have to lower your gaze when the conversation turns to the classics. Instead, you&am ...Show more
Vital Signs: Heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious stories from a junior doctor's first year by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An insight into what it's like to be a first year junior doctor - the ups and downs, the drama and how terrifying it is to finally be making decisions.
Lisa: THE INSPIRING #1 BESTSELLING MEMOIR by Lisa Curry
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: 06
The long-awaited memoir of one of Australia's most enduring and inspiring sporting icons. Triple Olympian and wellness entrepreneur Lisa Curry has lived her life in the public eye for four decades. In this very personal memoir, she shares the untold story of being Lisa. A swimming protegee who became o ...Show more
Around the Corners, Out to the Edges - A Memoir by composer Jonathan Besser by Jonathon Besser; Nicola McCloy
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Acclaimed classical music composer and director Jonathan Besser's career has been colourful and experimental, immersed in the burgeoning New Zealand art scene of the '70s and '80s. Born into a Jewish household in New York in 1949, Jonathan struggled in school as a neuro-atypical child, before delving in ...Show more
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The first ever autobiography of John Cooper Clarke, the Bard of Salford, punk poet, rock star, fashion icon, national treasure and acerbic wit. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. At 5 feet 11 inche ...Show more
Grand: Becoming my mother's daughter by Noelle McCarthy
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The astonishing debut memoir about mothers and daughters, drinking, birth and loss, running away and homecoming from prize-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy. "I'll be grand, girl, I've great faith." —Mammy, just before she died. Funny, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in p ...Show more
Exodus, Revisited: My Unorthodox Journey to Berlin by Deborah Feldman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The definitive follow-up to Unorthodox (the basis for the award-winning Netflix series)-now updated with more than 50 percent new material-the unforgettable story of what happened in the years after Deborah Feldman left a religious sectin Williamsburgin order to forgeher own path in the world. In 2009, ...Show more
W-3: A Memoir by Bette Howland
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Moving and heroically funny' New York Times'A brave and honorable book. Bette Howland is a real writer.' Saul Bellow, author of Seize the DayW-3 is a small psychiatric ward in a large university hospital, a world of pills and passes dispensed by an all-powerful staff, a world of veteran patients with g ...Show more
Dancing with the Machine by Jo Morgan; John McCrystal
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Mountaineer, adventurer, avid motorcyclist and constant traveller, Jo Morgan has lived an extraordinary life.The youngest of eight children, Jo was brought up largely by her mum after her father died when she was only one, and she has always had an adventurous side. As soon as she turned 15, Jo got her ...Show more