Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Teen idol at fifteen, international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrele ...Show more
Woman I Was Born To Be by Susan Boyle
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The extraordinary personal story of the Scottish woman who became a global superstar overnight One year ago, a modest middle-aged woman from a village in Scotland was catapulted to global fame when the YouTube video of her audition for Britain’s Got Talent touched the hearts of millions all over the wor ...Show more
Leading from the Front: An Autobiography by General Sir Richard Dannatt
42.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
As Chief of the General Staff, Sir Richard Dannatt was in overall command of the British army for the three years from 2006. This period saw some of the fiercest fighting yet in Afghanistan, and new and increased pressures and expectation placed on the army. From his very first day in the job General Da ...Show more
Madonna : Like an Icon by Lucy O'Brien
37.99 NZD
39.99 (5% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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Eight Lives Down by Chris Hunter
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'If fate is against me and I'm killed, so be it, but make it quick and painless. If I'm wounded, don't let me be crippled. But above all don't let me fuck up the task? So goes the bomb technician's prayer before every bomb he defuses. For Chris Hunter, it is a prayer he says many times over his four mon ...Show more
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, a young Palestinian man and two friends ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes, from which they and their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. One cousin had th ...Show more
Blood & Sand by Frank Gardner
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
On 6 June 2004, Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were in a quiet suburb of Riyadh, filming a piece on Al-Qaeda when they were confronted by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed instantly. Frank was brought down by a shot in the shoulder, then the leg. As he lay in the dusty street, a figure st ...Show more
An Englishman's Home by Tom Hart Dyke
64.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Tom Hart Dyke has a bit of a thing about plants. You might call it an obsession. You might call him certifiable, in fact. But it's a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ramshackle country estate and an obsession with plant collecting could want for only one thing - ...Show more
Red Azalea: Life and Love in China by Anchee Min
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The erotic autobiography of a woman who was a prize pupil and model member of the Red Guard during China's Cultural Revolution. Written with the dialogue and characterizations of a novel, the story traces her life and relationships through the political and cultural upheavals of the era.
Behind the Shades by Clinton Heylin
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In virtually all areas of Dylan's life - his immigrant antecedents, his business dealings, his various addictions and his romantic attachments - Heylin is able to provide a fascinating picture of a man who changed the whole course of popular music in the sixties and, over thirty years later, won three G ...Show more
Contact!: A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In "Contact!", Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating the people who helped spark her view of the wo ...Show more
I Was Douglas Adams's Flatmate : and Other Encounters with Legends by Andrew McGibbon; James Lambert (Cover Design by)
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Based on his Radio 4 series, Andrew McGibbon brings his sharp and witty attention to a group of people who spent time with legendary figures. Each interview gives the individual's unique account of their association and offers an intimate portrait that humanises the artist. Relieved of the burden of a b ...Show more