Amedeo: A True Story of Love and War in Abyssinia by Sebastian O'Kelly
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In December 1941, a wounded and half-starved prisoner festered in the sweltering dungeon of Hodeida, the chief port of neutral Yemen. His fellow inmates viewed him with suspicion. Although his Arabic was fluent, the accent was not that of a Yemeni. Some said he was a soldier from the war between the Naz ...Show more
But Enough About Me by Burt Reynolds and Jon Winokur
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
In But Enough About Me, legendary film actor and Hollywood superstar Burt Reynolds recalls the people who shaped his life and career, for better or for worse. From Robert Altman, Cary Grant, Clint Eastwood, and Robert Mitchum, to Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, Woody Allen and Kirsty Alley, Burt pays homage ...Show more
Best Foot Forward by Adam Hills
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
*The Sunday Times Bestseller* A hilarious and honest collection of stories, thoughts, and tales of a life in comedy from the presenter of The Last Leg, Adam Hills Adam Hills is one the UK's best-loved comedians. For thirty years he has been performing stand-up, hosting TV shows and winning the hearts of ...Show more
Southern Justice by Colin McLaren
$15.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: near fine
Who really murdered Bob Chappell? Veteran ex-detective and author of JFK: The Smoking Gun, Colin McLaren, uncovers disturbing new evidence that an innocent woman is in jail. Daybreak, Sandy Bay, Hobart, 27 January 2009. A yacht, the Four Winds, is seen listing low to the waterline. When police board the ...Show more
Napoleon - His Wives and Women by Christopher Hibbert
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Dear Dad by Samuel Johnson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
From the team who gave you the bestselling DEAR SANTA comes an honest, moving, emotionally memorable collection of letters to their fathers from some of Australia's most notorious grown-ups. The perfect gift for the dad or dad figure in your life! If you could tell your dad anything, what would it be? S ...Show more
Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything by Jane Hawking
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Made into a major motion picture, this moving memoir written by Stephen Hawking's first wife covers the turbulent years of her marriage to the astrophysics genius, her traumatic divorce, and their recent reconciliation Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and remarkable scientists of ou ...Show more
Diary of Girl in Changi 1941-1945 by Sheila Allan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
DIARY OF A GIRL IN CHANGI is the moving personal account of a young girl living in the midst of hardship and adversity. Written on scraps of paper which were kept hidden in her quarters, Sheila Allan's diary is a record of the daily lives of those interned in Changi. On the one hand, these were years of ...Show more
The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Mo ...Show more
Handling Edna by Barry Humphries
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
<p>In this unauthorised biography, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy, long-time manager and the man who was there from the very beginning, Barry Humphries takes a behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look at an icon of our times Dame Edna Everage. Superstar, swami, con ...Show more
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor.Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. I ...Show more