Nigel: my family and other dogs by Monty Don
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs
THE TOP 3 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NIGEL - One of Britain's favourite dogs! When Monty Don's golden retriever Nigel became the surprise star of BBC Gardeners' World inspiring huge interest, fan mail and his own social media accounts, Monty Don wanted to explore what makes us connect with animals quite so ...Show more
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
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Category: Biography Memoirs
Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis' honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a m ...Show more
An Ordinary Man, an Extraordinary Life by Malcolm Linsell
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs
An unfortunate accident as a toddler left both of Malcolm Linsell's hands burned. At the age of 13, a Plastic surgeon released a burns scar contracture on his right hand, and it was from this day on that unknowingly inspired Malcolm to become a plastic surgeon.
Double Whammy: A Story About Beating an 'Unbeatable' Cancer by Rowan Bishop
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs
This is a portrait of a family with their backs against the wall. A story of complexity, of agency and positivity that validates human emotional responses, and ultimately it is a story of survival - a story with a happy ending. In September of 2013, Rowan Bishop's husband Russell was diagnosed with Doub ...Show more
Fear: Our Ultimate Challenge by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt OBE
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. He's crossed both Poles on foot. He's been a member of the SAS and fought a bloody guerrilla war in Oman. And yet he confesses that his fear of heights is so great that he'd rather send his wife up a ladder to clean the gutters than do it hims ...Show more
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016 WINNER OF THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life. William Finnegan first started surfing ...Show more
A Fig at the Gate by Kate Llewellyn
$13.00 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs
In A Fig at the Gate, author Kate Llewellyn, now in her seventies, embraces a new phase in her life, asking the question, 'How does one live well?'Following the joyful crafting of her gardens in the Blue Mountains (The Waterlily) and north of Wollongong (Playing with Water), Kate creates a new garden ne ...Show more
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai re ...Show more
Invisible Mile by Coventry David
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs | Reading Level: Very Good
The 1928 Ravat-Wonder team from New Zealand and Australia were the first English-speaking team to ride the Tour de France. From June through July they faced one of toughest in the race's history: 5,476 kilometres of unsealed roads on heavy, fixed-wheel bikes. They rode in darkness through mountains with ...Show more
Wild - A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Selected to be read on Radio Four's Book of the Week. 'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long ...Show more
Frood - The True Story of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Jem Roberts
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
As a wise ape once observed, space is big - vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly so. However, if you look too closely at space, it becomes nothing but lumps of rock and sundry gases. Sometimes it's necessary to take a step back, and let a few billion years go by, before any of the true wonder and scope of th ...Show more
Andris, Where Are You? From Latvia to New Zealand: The Family Story of Andris Apse by Ron Crosby
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Andris, Where Are You? tells the family story of renowned New Zealand photographer Andris Apse, who when middle aged, discovered that his father Voldemars, believed to be dead for 40 years, was still alive in Latvia. Told largely through insightful pre-war diary entries by Voldemars Apse, as well as cor ...Show more