Elizabeth - The Life of Elizabeth Taylor by Alexander. Walker
$16.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
A serious and in-depth look at one of the great legends of Hollywood by the London film critic and author of Audrey: Her Real Story. Elizabeth Taylor was perhaps the most "public" of the great stars: an Oscar-winning actress who lived her entire life in the glare of the spotlights. Much has been written ...Show more
Unabridged Marilyn by Neal Hitchins
$18.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
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Will by Will Smith, Mark Manson
$22.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of o ...Show more
And On That Bombshell by Porter Richard
$15.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
I was Top Gear's script editor for 13 years and all 22 series. I basically used to check spelling and think of stupid gags about The Stig. I also got to hang around with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. It didn't feel like something you should get paid for.From the disastrous pilot show o ...Show more
Zero to 60 - From a wooden caravan to a multi-million-dollar business empire by Tony Quinn
$18.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"From growing up in a wooden caravan to building his own state-of-the-art racetrack, this is the remarkable story of Targa champion, Hampton Downs and Highlands Motorsport Park owner Tony Quinn.On a frosty and clear morning in the small, Central Otago town of Cromwell, 2012, Tony Quinn and his son Klark ...Show more
Greg Norman : The Biography by LAUREN ST JOHN
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
One of golf's more outsized characters, Norman is a true sporting enigma: an athlete whose enormous defeats are far more dramatic--and interesting--than his considerable victories. Despite two British Open titles and more than 50 tournament wins worldwide, his legend--built on a go-for-broke playing sty ...Show more
The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for Spies by Noreen Riols
$8.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
'My mother thought I was working for the Ministry of Ag. and Fish.' So begins Noreen Riols' compelling memoir of her time as a member of Churchill's 'secret army', the Special Operations Executive. It was 1943, just before her eighteenth birthday, Noreen received her call-up papers, and was faced with e ...Show more
Margaret Thatcher: The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher
$15.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank a ...Show more
A Monk Swimming - A Memoir by Malachy McCourt
$12.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
An entertaining memoir of a rollicking life in New York of an Irish immigrant. The title is derived from the young Malachy's mishearing of the words 'amongst women' in Hail Mary. Malachy McCourt, younger brother to Frank, had his childhood portrayed in the much loved best-selling book, Angela's Ashes. H ...Show more
The Great Cave Rescue by James Massola
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
The complete story of the miraculous rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team boys and their coach in Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand in July 2018. Keen to go exploring after soccer practice, the boys of the Wild Boars soccer team ignored the sign at the cave entrance warning visitors not to enter duri ...Show more
Posh & Becks by Morton Andrew
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Victoria and David Beckham are one of Britain¹s most famous celebrity couples. Now, Andrew Morton offers a look beyond the high-profile image of the former Spice Girl and the British soccer star. 55 color photos.
Kiki Man Ray - Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Braude
$14.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
'A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book, Kiki Man Ray brings to life not just the kaleidoscopically talented Kiki herself, but the endlessly fascinating Montparnasse milieu over which she reigned' Whitney Scharer, author of THE AGE OF LIGHT. Though many have never hea ...Show more