Kika and Me: How One Guide Dog Changed My Life by Amit Patel
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The moving true story of Dr Amit Patel, who lost his sight in just thirty-six hours and Kika, the guide dog who changed his life.In 2013, Amit was training to be a trauma surgeon when a condition called keratoconus caused him to lose his sight within thirty-six hours. His life changed forever. Strugglin ...Show more
Under the Wire by Paul Conroy
27.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
NOW A MAJOR FEATURE DOCUMENTARY Determined to cover the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent and the devastating impact of the war on Syria's civilians, veteran photographer Paul Conroy and Marie Colvin,one of the foremost war correspondents of her generation, decided to smuggle themselves acros ...Show more
The Boy Who Felt Too Much by Lorenz Wagner
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Henry Markram is the Elon Musk of neuroscience, the man behind the billion-dollar Blue Brain Project to build a supercomputer model of the brain. He has set the goal of decoding all disturbances of the mind within a generation. This quest is personal for him. The driving force behind his grand ambition ...Show more
Denali: The Story of an Exceptional Dog by Ben Moon
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In the bestselling tradition of Finding Gobi and Marley & Me, the moving story of a dog, his human and the friendship that saved both their lives - and inspired countless others. Ben Moon had no intention of getting a dog until he met the soulful gaze of a husky-pit bull cross pup in a rescue shel ...Show more
Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview by ANTHONY BOURDAIN
35.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
The brilliant intellect and candor of Anthony Bourdain is on full display in this collection of interviews from throughout his remarkable career, including interviews with Neil Degrasse Tyson and Trevor Noah Anthony Bourdain always downplayed his skills as a chef (many disagreed). But despite his mo ...Show more
A Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz by Dita Kraus
28.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys of ...Show more
Gotta Get Theroux This - My life and strange times in television by Louis Theroux
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat charact ...Show more
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series by Dolly Alderton
28.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting du ...Show more
If You'd Just Let Me Finish by Jeremy Clarkson
28.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In November 2016 we woke up to the news that the forthright presenter of a popular television programme had become the most powerful man on the planet. His name, sadly, was not Jeremy Clarkson, but we might not have been any more surprised if it had been. Because the world seems to have taken a decidedl ...Show more
Made In Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country by Billy Connolly
28.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
"Where do you come from? It's one of the most basic human questions of all. But there is another question, which might sound a wee bit similar but is actually very different: What do you come from? And, let me tell you, that question can take you all sorts of strange places." In Made in Scotland, Lege ...Show more
Running With Sherman - The Donkey who Survived Against all Odds and Raced Like a Champion by Christopher McDougall
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Bestselling author of Born to Run rehabilitates a donkey to winning success. When barefoot running guru Christopher McDougall takes in a neglected donkey, his aim is to get Sherman back to reasonable health. But Sherman is ill-tempered, obstinate and uncooperative - and it's clear his poor treatment ha ...Show more
Against All Odds: The Inside Account of the Thai Cave Rescue, and the Courageous Australians at the Heart of It by Craig Challen; Richard Harris
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'I just want to warn you. You're going to dive to the end of the cave. You're going to see these kids. They're all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you're going to swim away, and they're probably all going to die.' In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more