Brian Johnson - The Lives of Brian - A memoir by Brian Johnson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography
The story of AC/DC's legendary front man in his own inimitable voice 'It wasn't me. I didn't do it. And I'll never do it again!' says Brian Johnson of The Lives of Brian. That AC/DC's legendary front man got to do it all is one of the most cheering and entertaining stories in rock 'n'roll history. For o ...Show more
Say It Again in a Nice Voice by Meg Mason
$37.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography
'Mothers. Those women with purses the size of meat trays that hold an entire deck of school portrait photos and a chequebook, make a casserole without a recipe, make the tightest bed you'll ever sleep in and only swear under extreme duress. How, how, would I go from me to that?' At 24, Meg Mason was new ...Show more
Dancing with the Octopus - The Telling of a True Crime by Debora Harding
$25.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
A fierce, strikingly redemptive exploration of the impact of traumatic violence on victim, perpetrator and society.
Owning It: The Ride that Changed my Life by Brad Smeele
$40.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography
Deeply thoughtful, honest and riveting story of a high-achieving sportsman who became a quadriplegic. Brad Smeele's thrill-seeking, fast-paced life as a professional wakeboarder came to an abrupt halt eight years ago when an accident caused him to become a quadriplegic. Wakeboarding is like waterskiing ...Show more
Wandering in Strange Lands - A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year "One of the smartest young writers of her generation."--Book Riot Now in paperback and featuring a new afterword from the author, comes Morgan Jerkins' powerful story of her journey to understand her northe ...Show more
The Accidental Teacher by Tim Heath
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Funny, poignant, charming and deeply sad at times, this is a beautifully written story of a life in teaching. Tim Heath taught for about 40 years, mostly in New Zealand but also in Samoa, in small country schools, in big city schools, at the Correspondence School, in primary schools and secondary school ...Show more
The Chief Witness: escape from China's modern-day concentration camps by Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
$40.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography
A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes - and the story of one woman's fight to survive.I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I have to tell their story, to tell about the darkness they ...Show more
Faking It: My Life in Transition by Kyle Mewburn
$38.00 NZD
$39.00 (2% off)
Category: Autobiography
Kyle Mewburn grew up in the sunburnt, unsophisticated Brisbane suburbs of the 1960s and '70s in a household with little love and no books, with a lifelong feeling of being somehow wrong - like 'strawberry jam in a spinach can'. In this book, Kyle describes this early life and her journey to becoming her ...Show more
Start Your Engines: My Unstoppable CrossFit Journey by Sam Briggs
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
INCLUDES AN UPDATED CHAPTER ON THE 2020 SEASONYou don't get biceps like Briggs by giving up when the going gets tough...CrossFit superstar Sam Briggs, aka 'The Engine', is a true hero in the sport, with a level of endurance unparalleled in the game. This is the story of how she got to the top, and battl ...Show more
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
$40.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography
A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training. Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream: model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workah ...Show more
Invisible Walls - A Journalist in Search of Her Life by Hella Pick
$35.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography
A trailblazer for women in journalism, Hella Pick arrived in Britain in 1939 as a child refugee from Austria. Over nearly four decades she covered the volatile global scene, first in West Africa, followed by America and long periods in Europe. In her thirty-five years with the Guardian she reported on t ...Show more
Do You Feel Like I Do? by Peter Frampton; Alan Light (As told to)
$46.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography
A revelatory memoir by rock icon and legendary guitarist Peter Frampton.Do You Feel Like I Do? is the incredible story of Peter Frampton's positively resilient life and career told in his own words for the first time. His monu-mental album Frampton Comes Alive spawned three top-twenty singles and sold e ...Show more