Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013, twenty-nine-y ...Show more
Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good by Aminata Conteh-Biger
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'Rising Heart will never leave you; searing, powerful, disturbing, hopeful.' The Honourable Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO The astonishing tale of a woman determined to turn her trauma into the power for good in the world. In 1999, Sierra Leone teenager Aminata Conteh-Biger was kidnapped from her father's ar ...Show more
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
27.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television."--Esquire "A whip-smart, challenging book."--Zadie Smith * "Jia Tolentino could be the Joan D ...Show more
Victory in the Kitchen - The Life of Churchill's Cook by Annie Gray
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous, simply someone who worked hard and enjoyed her life. Beginning in 1882, she ranged through life in the country, life in the town, life in her own house, and in that of others. She travelled, married, had children and a highly succes ...Show more
No Matter Our Wreckage: A Memoir about Grooming, Betrayal, Trauma and Love by Gemma Carey
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A ground-breaking, uncompromising and unflinching memoir about grooming, intergenerational trauma, grief and love. My mother knew I was abused as a child. She had read letters sent from my abuser to me…But she never spoke to me about them, or what they described. And she never intervened to stop the ab ...Show more
Take Your Space - Successful Women Share Their Secrets by Jo Cribb; Rachel Petero
34.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Take Your Space: the 2020 How-to book for all women, by Jo Cribb and Rachel Petero. Take your pick of how-to from real life experiences, there is something for everyone. Topics include: How to negotiate; finding your worth and your tribe; taking your physical space; owning your confidence; practising sa ...Show more
The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory: A Memoir by Corey White
26.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Corey White was a golden child. He knew this because his father would hit his mother and his sisters but not him. And his mother adored him so much she let him drop out of primary school. After losing his father to jail and his mother to heroin, though, he became a target for cruelty and dysfunction in ...Show more
Thirty Thousand Bottles of Wine and a Pig Called Helga by Todd Alexander
22.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Once I was the poster boy for corporate success, but now I'm crashing through the bush in a storm in search of a missing pig. How the hell did we end up here? Todd and Jeff have had enough of the city. Sick of the daily grind and workaday corporate shenanigans, they throw caution to the wind and buy 100 ...Show more
Too Much And Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world ...Show more
A Dog Called Harry by Jill Baker
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
You want a friend, get a dog - Gordon Gekko 'Jeez, look at you, my friend blurted. 'You hardly smile. You used to be hilarious but you haven't laughed in weeks.'She listed the things she thought might help: a bottle of wine, six months at the beach, a year overseas. I was having none of it. Finally, she ...Show more
Not That I'd Kiss a Girl by Lil O'Brien
38.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
A heartbreaking and hilarious true story of coming out as gay in New Zealand. Lil O'Brien accidentally outed herself to her parents at the age of nineteen when they overheard her talking to a friend about liking girls. Half an hour later she found herself on the side of the road, with instructions to co ...Show more
Pull No Punches - Memoir of a Political Survivor by Judith Collins
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A candid and revealing memoir from one of politics' great survivors - National MP, and leader of the opposition, Judith Collins.