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A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$70.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Pet: Stories by Kathryn van Beek
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Pet is a dark and humorous short story collection that explores our relationships with children, lovers, and other animals. “Hectic, chatty, very modern New Zealand, very, very readable.”—Steve Braunias“These beautifully crafted stories about humans and their animals and animals and their humans are sha ...Show more
From A Dark Cave To New Zealand by Mustafa Darbandi
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Hiding in a tiny dark cave in the border triangle between Iraq, Iran and Turkey, Mustafa Darbandi is facing his fear that he may not survive. On the run because of his membership of a banned Kurdish freedom movement, he has begun an extraordinary journey. It will take him from Iraq to Turkey to Iran to ...Show more
Sir Bob Charles - The Biography
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
**For Booktrade purchases only** 'Sir Bob Charles – The Biography’ is the first comprehensive biography of Sir Bob Charles. His story begins in working-class rural New Zealand. In 1960 he embarked upon a career that no New Zealander had chosen before – that of a full-time touring professional golfer. Th ...Show more
Red Comet - The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court ...Show more
The Dreamer - An Autobiography by Cliff Richard
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Published to coincide with his 80th birthday, a tour and another new album, national treasure Sir Cliff Richard has emerged stronger than ever after devastating false accusations threatened to ruin his life. As he celebrates 60 years in music, he tells his incredible story in his first, full autobiograp ...Show more
The 52 Week Project - How I Fixed My Life by Trying a New Thing Every Week for a Year by Lauren Keenan
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Life is short. Make the most of it.
Sylvia Pankhurst - Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes
$42.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The definitive biography of Sylvia Pankhurst, a woman ahead of her times - political rebel, human rights champion and radical feminist.Born into one Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel; a talented artist, prolific writer and newspaper editor. A free spirit and r ...Show more
Boy on Fire by Mark Mordue
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A deeply beautiful, profound, profane and poetic biography of the early formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is th ...Show more
White Moko by Tim Tipene
$29.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A memoir from award-winning writer and inspirational speaker Tim Tipene. Tim founded the Warrior Kids programme 22 years ago. His courses now empower families and children. Himself the product of rape, Tim spent a miserable childhood in which he was abused by both his birth and foster families. This me ...Show more
Sontag - Her Life by Benjamin Moser
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can be no doubting the brilliance - the sheer explanatory vigour - of Moser's biography... a triumph of the vi ...Show more
Memoirs of a Kamikaze - A World War II Pilot's Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation by Kazuo Odachi; Alexander Bennett (Translator); Shigeru Ota; Hiroyoshi Nishijima
$28.00 NZD
Category: New Arrivals
An incredible, untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history. This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who--in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old--joined the Imperial Japanese Navy to become a pilot. A year later, he was unknowingly assigne ...Show more
