Motherwell by Deborah Orr
45.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Just shy of 18, Deborah Orr left Motherwell - the town she both loved and hated - to go to university. It was a decision her mother railed against from the moment the idea was raised. Win had very little agency in the world, every choice was determined by the men in her life. And strangely, she wanted t ...Show more
Paws In The Proceedings by Longden, Deric
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Deric's gentle tales of life in Huddersfield with his wife Aileen and their menagerie of playful cats have won him thousands of loyal fans. And after a few years break Deric returns with the latest, and eagerly awaited, instalment of his memoirs. Deric is getting on a bit now and so are his cats. Life c ...Show more
Paris Match: Falling in (love) with the French by John von Sothen
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
An American falls in love and becomes a Parisian - just not the way he imagined. In Brooklyn, John von Sothen fell in love with Anais, a French waitress. And then, one night in Paris, on the Pont Neuf, she agreed to marry him ("Bah, we can always get divorced!"). A couple of decades in, the two have be ...Show more
Her Say - Survivors of Domestic Abuse Tell Their Own Stories by Jackie Clark and the Aunties
35.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
In 2012, Jackie Clark launched The Aunties, a grassroots charity helping women to rebuild their lives after a period of trauma. She quit her job, turning her back on her comfortable life, to focus on The Aunties full-time, becoming Aunty in Charge and assisting hundreds of women with material needs and ...Show more
Fourteen: My Year of Darkness, and the Light that Followed by Shannon Molloy
35.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Fourteen is this generation's Holding the Man - a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man's search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school. This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay kid at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regio ...Show more
Dalai Lama - Definitive Biography by Alexander Norman
38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
The Dalai Lama is one of the best-known and respected public figures of modern times. A Nobel Peace Prize Winner, advocate for peace and campaigner for compassion, he regularly speaks at sell-out arena tours across the globe. In this new biography, Alexander Norman reveals the complex and compelling cha ...Show more
The Kennedy Curse: Six Generations of Adultery, Addiction, and Tragedy by James Patterson
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Those who dwell in the House of Kennedy work hard, live hard, and win at all costs. But just how much has it cost them? The Kennedy name is synonymous with American royalty. The family commitment to public service is legendary and enduring. But all their wild charisma has been dashed by disgrace and tra ...Show more
Clothes ... and other things that matter by Alexandra Shulman
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Chosen by Evening Standard as one of the best books to look forward to in 2020. 'a must-read memoir for even those beyond the fashion set.' - Evening Standard Chosen by Stylist as one of 2020's best non-fiction books. 'In the funny and opinionated Clothes... and other things that matter, former Vogue UK ...Show more
Self Made / On Her Own Ground by A'Lelia Bundles
27.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Soon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale biography of "one of the great success stories of American history" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C.J. Walker--the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist--by her great-great-granddaug ...Show more
The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren - The Biography by Paul Gorman
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
'This masterful and painstaking biography opens its doorway to an era of fluorescent disenchantment and outlandish possibility' Alan Moore Malcolm McLaren was one of the most culturally significant but misunderstood figures of the modern era. Ten years after his life was cruelly cut short by cancer, The ...Show more
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admir ...Show more
Thinking Again by Jan Morris
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A second volume of Jan Morris' diaries, life through the eyes of a legendary writer in her ninth decade.