Bewildered - leaving everything behind for 3000km in the wilds of New Zealand by Laura Waters
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
What would move you to ditch your life and take off into the wild for six months? For Melbourne woman Laura Waters, it took the implosion of a toxic relationship and a crippling bout of anxiety. Armed with a compass, a paper map and as much food as she could carry, she set out to walk the untamed landsc ...Show more
Journeys in the Wild: The Secret Life of the Cameraman by Gavin Thurston
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From Gavin Thurston, the award-winning Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II cameraman with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough comes extraordinary and adventurous true stories of what it takes to track down and film our planet's most captivating creatures. Gavin has been a wildlife photographer for over ...Show more
Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World by Laura James
24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
What do you do when you wake up in your mid-forties and realize you've been living a lie your whole life? Do you tell? Or do you keep it to yourself? Laura James found out that she was autistic as an adult, after she had forged a career for herself, married twice and raised four children. This book trac ...Show more
Odd Girl Out: Being an Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World by Laura James
29.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
From early childhood, Laura James knew she was different, but it wasn't until her mid-forties that she found out why. A successful journalist and mother to four children, she had spent her whole life feeling as if she were running a different operating system to those around her. This book charts a year ...Show more
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
7.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation 'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sp ...Show more
On the Marsh - A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet by Simon Barnes
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
How the rewilding of eight acres of Norfolk marshland inspired a family and brought nature even closer to home.When writer Simon Barnes heard a Cetti's warbler sing out as he turned up to look at a house for sale, he knew immediately that he had found his new home. The fact that his garden backed onto a ...Show more
Young Castro - The Making of a Revolutionary by Jonathan M. Hansen
59.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
An intimate, revisionist portrait of the early years of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world.This book will change how you think about Fidel Castro. Until now, biographers have treated Castro's life like prosecutors, scouring his past f ...Show more
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
26.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
''This book has found a special place in my heart. It''s as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it'' Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK''Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, which moved and delighted me more than ...Show more
Many a Close Run Thing - From jet-fighter pilot to airline captain by Tom Enright
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A New Zealand squadron leader, flying-boat captain and airliner pilot on a life of aerial adventure Though rarely seen above the small sheep farming town called Ranfurly in Central Otago in the 1940s, Tom Enright developed a fascination with planes from an early age. He joined the Royal New Zealand Air ...Show more
Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Mafia and the Movies by Gianni Russo; Patrick Picciarelli (As told to)
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The rollicking adventures of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality. Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of The Godfather and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, the husband of Connie Corleo ...Show more
Church of the Open Sky by Nat Young
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Series: Australian Surfer | Reading Level: 3 Biography
What makes for a surfing life? With a blaze of groundbreaking performances and a swag of titles claimed from all over the world to his name, Australian world champion surfer Nat Young might know. His seventieth birthday inspired some reflection on exactly that, and on the waves and characters that have ...Show more
Born Again Blakfella by Jack Charles
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Series: Australian | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his ...Show more