Penguin Bloom: The odd little bird who saved a family: The award-winning, international bestselling sensation by BLOOM, CAMERON
35.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
PENGUIN BLOOM is a unique journey of recovery and an extraordinary celebration of life, featuring Cameron Bloom's exceptional photographs and a captivating narrative by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive. Penguin the Magpie is a global social media sensation with over 113k followers ...Show more
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War by Taras Grescoe
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Taras Grescoe spins the true story of a British aristocrat, an American flapper, and a Chinese poet who found themselves trapped in an unlikely love triangle amid the decadence of Jazz Age Shanghai. On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth centur ...Show more
Maori Boy - A Memoir of Childhood by Witi Ihimaera
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This is the first volume of Witi Ihimaera's enthralling memoir, packed with stories of the formative years of this much-loved writer. Witi Ihimaera is a consummate storyteller - one critic calling him one of our 'finest and most memorable'. Some of his best stories, however, are about his own life. This ...Show more
Glacier Country: My Years at Franz Joseph by Ralph Warbuton
49.95 NZD
Category: Memoirs
IN THE 1940S, and while in his 30s, Ralph Warburton fell in love with the mountains. He gave up his job of watchmaker and trained as a glacier guide, later becoming official photographer for glacier parties at Franz Josef. His family formed and grew up in the tiny South Westland village, a remote spot b ...Show more
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
26.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Anne's thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends stay ...Show more
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
27.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted ...Show more
Nevertheless: A Memoir by Alec Baldwin
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: General Adult
One of the most accomplished and outspoken actors today chronicles the highs and lows of his life in this beautifully written, candid memoir. Over the past three decades, Alec Baldwin has established himself as one of Hollywood's most gifted, hilarious, and controversial leading men. From his work in p ...Show more
Adele by Sean Smith
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Adele touches the hearts of millions of people who love her for her music and share the real and honest emotion she brings to each and every song. In a cynical age, she is a phenomenon. In Adele, bestselling biographer Sean Smith talks to those close to her as he follows her astonishing journey to fame ...Show more
Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
29.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family. At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the o ...Show more