On Call - The Anatomy of My Life As a Surgeon, a Daughter, a Mother by Ineke Meredith
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Frank, sharp-witted and heart-rending, On Call is a stunning memoir by a female Samoan-New Zealand general surgeon about life, death, and the human limits of care As soon as she could, Ineke Meredith left her family home in Samoa for New Zealand, filled with determination not to be like her mother: lovi ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Dame Suzy D: My Story by Susan Devoy
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A four-time world squash champion, Dame Susan Devoy has led a remarkably varied life. She's been Race Relations Commissioner, a television star, a newspaper columnist, raised four boys and met Bill Clinton and King Charles. Fiercely driven and wildly competitive, her straight up style and hilarious turn ...Show more
Down With the System: The highly-awaited memoir from the System Of A Down legend by Serj Tankian
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The incredible first memoir by System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian. With nearly 40 million record sales, three albums topping the Billboard charts, a Grammy win and a legion of fans, System Of A Down are one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. At their core has always been Serj Tankian, whose ...Show more
Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Berserk: out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied. Berserkers: an elite Norse fighting corp who, apparently off their tits on hallucinogenic drugs, fought with a particular fury and senseless abandon still present in many Scandinavian heavy metal groups. Ade Edmondson smashed onto the ...Show more
Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan by Bariz Shah
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
What does it take to find hope in dark places and change the course of your life? When Bariz Shah's family immigrated to New Zealand, they couldn't have predicted that everything would change after 9/11. Still only a child, Bariz became the target of racist abuse and bullying, and responded the only way ...Show more
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Welcome to Sotheran's, the oldest, most bonkers bookshop in the country, with its bizarre clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabelled keys, poisoned books, some things that aren't even books, and deeply eccentric staff. Think Diary of a Bookseller but with quite a lot more Bernard Black.Some years ago, ...Show more
Rambling Man - My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
54.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Father Anselm Novels Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
In my fantasy of the Rambling Man who is something of a hobo, walking - or maybe jumping into the car of a moving train - is what he does. He slings his guitar or banjo over his shoulder and strides out along the road to the next town. There he plays a few songs at a local gig and meets a beautiful woma ...Show more
The Wisdom of Morrie by Morrie Schwartz
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. 'Beautiful ...Those lucky enough to read this book will be inspired.' Deepak Chopra Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaning ...Show more
My My!: ABBA Through the Ages by Giles Smith
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL'Janet Frame is the greatest Ne ...Show more
After the Tampa by Abbas Nazari
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere. The family's desperate search for safety took them on a harrowing journey from the mountains of A ...Show more