Downfall - The Destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond
$45.00 NZD
Category: 2023 Ockham NZ Book Awards Longlist
1920 New Zealanders were shocked by the news that the brilliant, well-connected mayor of genteel Whanganui had shot a young gay poet, D'Arcy Cresswell, who he thought was blackmailing him. They were then riveted by the trial that followed.Mackay was sentenced to hard labour and later left the country, o ...Show more
Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' - a memoir about finding an identity, a voice and laughter. A funny, elegant, moving memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known authors, a woman who finally rebelled against being a handmaiden. By the time Barbara Else was ...Show more
Aquanaut - A Life Beneath the Surface - the Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue by Rick Stanton
$27.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
THE ENTHRALLING INSIDE STORY OF THE THAI CAVE RESCUE NOW CHRONICLED IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HIT DOCUMENTARY THE RESCUEWRITTEN BY THE MAN AT THE HEART OF THE MISSION'The British divers are all heroes' Clive Cussler'A case study in courage' Ron Howard, Oscar-winning director of Apollo 13________'They were ...Show more
Two Years on Two Wheels, or, the Travelblogs of an Accidental Klingon - A True Story of an American Kiwis Adventures Across Two Hemispheres in Search of Freedom, Happiness and a Good Cup of Coffee! by Rod Slater
$38.99 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Have you ever wanted to just take off, leave it all behind and go see what’s out there? This story is about a Kiwi man who did just that. Taking only what would fit into the saddlebags of his motorcycle, living out of his tent and sleeping anywhere from campgrounds to cornfields. Rod set out on an adven ...Show more
Maisie and Dot and Other Stories from a Preschool Teacher by Anisa MacLean
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Second Chances - A Marine, His Dog, and Finding Redemption by Craig Grossi
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The author of the heartwarming Craig and Fred tells the deeply emotional and inspiring story of the next phase of their lives together: working closely with prison inmates in Maine who raise and train puppies to become service dogs. Former US Marine Craig Grossi and his dog Fred appeared on the Today ...Show more
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook ...Show more
MINNIE BERRINGTON: The Remarkable Story of a True Trailblazer Who Found Freedom and Adventure in the Outback by Marianne van Velzen
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The inspiring story of a feisty pioneering woman who sought freedom and adventure in the outback and became the first woman to work as an opal miner in Australia. People always asked her if she was ever afraid, living out in the desert alone with all those rough and scruffy men. But Minnie Berrington wa ...Show more
This Much is True: 'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL by Miriam Margolyes
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRYBAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treas ...Show more
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
$75.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A novelist's gripping investigation of the forces that led his childhood best friend from academic stardom to the psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he lovedWhen the Rosens moved to New Rochelle, New York in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both ch ...Show more
Good for a Girl: My Life Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From the time Lauren first laced up her running shoes to dominate boys in her neighbourhood, through puberty when half of all girls abandon sports for good, into the NCAA where young women routinely starve and hurt themselves, and into elite running where she had to be 'fast and fuckable' to fit into th ...Show more
Things I remember, or was told by Carol Shand
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Things I remember, or was told, is the memoir of outspoken Wellington GP Carol Shand, who since the early 1960s has spent her life fighting for change in medical, social and legal issues that she considered important: maternity care, access to contraception, abortion law change, and improved response to ...Show more