Who Am I, Again? by Lenny Henry
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Sir Lenny Henry is one of the UK's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time. A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense o ...Show more
Books That Saved My Life by MICHAEL MCGIRR
26.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life's most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego.Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich us in all ma ...Show more
My Penguin Year: Living with the Emperors. A Journey of Discovery by Lindsay McCrae
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Emperor penguins have the most extraordinary lifecycle. They march up to 100 miles over solid ice to reach their breeding grounds. They choose to breed in the depths of the worst winter on the planet; and in an unusual role reversal, the males incubate the eggs, fasting for over 100 days to ensure they ...Show more
Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2 ...Show more
Warren Gatland: Pride and Passion My Autobiography by Warren Gatland
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Warren Gatland is one of the most renowned rugby coaches of the last 20 years, leading Wales to three Six Nations titles, two Grand Slams and a World Cup semi-final, and delivering two successful tours as Head Coach of the British and Irish Lions. As he leaves his post as Head Coach of Wales at the end ...Show more
The Sisters of Auschwitz by Roxane van Iperen
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
THE TRUE STORY OF TWO JEWISH SISTERS RESISTANCE IN THE HEART OF NAZI TERRITORY WINNER of the Opzij Literature Prize 2019! During the Second World War two Jewish sisters - Janny and Lien Brilleslijper - run one of the largest hideaways in The Netherlands: The High Nest, a villa in The Gooi area. While th ...Show more
Home Work - A Memoir of My Years in Hollywood by Julie Andrews
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Home, the enchanting Julie Andrews picks up her story with her arrival in Hollywood, sharing the career highlights, personal experiences and reflections behind her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound ...Show more
Unfollow - A journey from hatred to hope - Leaving the Westboro Baptist church by Megan Phelps-Roper
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: good
'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' - LOUIS THEROUX 'A beautiful, gripping book about a singular soul, and an unexpected redemption' - NICK HORNBY As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' It was an upbringing in many ways norm ...Show more
Lady in Waiting - My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Series: Princess Margaret | Reading Level: very good
The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation - and is a character in THE CROWN this spring. Anne Glenconner reveals the real events behind The Crown as well as her own life of drama, tragedy and courage, with the wonderful wit and ex ...Show more
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-s ...Show more
Renia's Diary: A Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Renia Spiegel
38.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
July 15, 1942, Wednesday Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I'm separated from the world. Renia is a young girl who dreams of becoming a poet. But Renia i ...Show more
Debbie Harry: Face It by Debbie Harry
49.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Debbie Harry has achieved a level of global success and iconic stature that is reserved for very few musicians, and even fewer women. Charismatic lead singer, critically acclaimed solo artist and style icon, her allure is endless and her legacy is enduring. In this, her first memoir, Debbie shares her r ...Show more