Rambling Man - My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Father Anselm Novels Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
In my fantasy of the Rambling Man who is something of a hobo, walking - or maybe jumping into the car of a moving train - is what he does. He slings his guitar or banjo over his shoulder and strides out along the road to the next town. There he plays a few songs at a local gig and meets a beautiful woma ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'This brilliant and heartbreaking book is a masterpiece. It reads like a novel, yet is all sadly true. I finished it in tears' - James Rebanks. A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years ...Show more
Father and Son by Jonathan Raban
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
On 11 June 2011, three days short of his sixty-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban suffered a stroke which left him unable to use the right side of his body. Learning to use a wheelchair in a rehab facility outside Seattle and resisting the ministrations of the nurses overseeing his recovery, Raban began to ...Show more
Greenlights: Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-winning actor by Matthew McConaughey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From the Academy Award -winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues ...Show more
My Name is Barbra: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography and Music Book of the Year 2023 by Barbra Streisand
$85.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) an ...Show more
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Essential reading' Ai Weiwei' *** 'Deeply courageous' Philippe SandsA Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in historyIf you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, there's a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets, and one of on ...Show more
Quaint Deeds: Unlikely Adventures in Teaching and Treasure-hunting: A Memoir by A.J. Mackinnon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow, a hilarious and heart-warming memoir of teaching, treasure hunts and finding your own way in life. A.J. 'Sandy' Mackinnon is best known to readers as a much-loved travel writer. But between eccentric voyages, he has for almost forty ye ...Show more
Agent Molière - The Life of John Cairncross, the Fifth Man of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone and was driven by his hostility to Fascism rather than to the promotion of Communism. During his war-time work at Bletchley Park, he passed documents to the So ...Show more
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, t ...Show more
Elusive by Frank Close
$32.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the ...Show more
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with the young Englishwoman Henrietta Heathorn, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And yet together he and Henrietta would return to London and go on to found o ...Show more
A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood by Helen Mort
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Guardian Books to Watch 2022Evening Standard Books to Watch 2022Bookseller Editor's ChoiceWinner of the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature'A wonderful book - exhilarating and taut, fearless in its explorations of wildness, risk, motherhood, and the inner and outer worlds of the writer' Jon Mc ...Show more