Adopted - Loss, Love, Family and Reunion by Brigitta Baker; Jo Willis
$12.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
To not know your family story is a huge loss of your sense of self. It has the potential to undermine your wellbeing and your relationships across a lifetime. Adopted is the powerful and honest account of two of the thousands of children adopted during the era of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand, ...Show more
Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father by Adam Mars-Jones
$12.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in the ...Show more
Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page
$14.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative an ...Show more
Heart of Iron - My Journey from Transplant Patient to Ironman Triathlete by Kyle Garlett
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Throughout his life, Kyle Garlett hated nothing more than losing, and he knew early on that four diagnoses of cancer could not match his spirit of competition. His appetite for victory and his love of life pushed him over his health hurdles--including a bone marrow transplant, hip replacement, and heart ...Show more
Diaries of an Internet Lover by Dawn Porter
$8.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Tired of looking for Mr Right when all she wanted was casual fun, Dawn Porter placed an ad online to see what handsome, wealthy and charming men would respond to her request for surprising nights out and possibly more. Nine months later and the results make for jaw-dropping reading. A cast of characters ...Show more
One Day at a Time: How I Changed by Body and My Life by Suzanne Prentice
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Suzanne Prentice has been in the public eye since her early teens when she dazzled the New Zealand entertainment world with the hit single 'Funny Face'. Regarded with great affection by her fans here and overseas, it is hard to imagine that this mult-plantinum, award winning performer had become an over ...Show more
First: What It Takes to Win by Rich Froning
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Physical Strength Can Only Take You So Far Reigning CrossFit World Champion Rich Froning is "The Fittest Man on Earth." He's fast. He's strong. And he's incredibly disciplined. But it takes more than physical strength to compete and win at an elite level. It takes incredible mental and spiritual toughne ...Show more
Fire by Sebastian Junger
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
A riveting collection of literary journalism by the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, capped off brilliantly by a new Afterword and a timely essay about war-torn Afghanistan - a superb eyewitness report about the Taliban's defeat in Kabul - new to book form. Sebastian Junger has made a specialty ...Show more
The Film Club - No School. No Work ... Just Three Films a Week by David Gilmour
$8.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Jesse didn't want to go to school anymore. After much deliberation, his father offers him an unconventional deal: he can drop out, sleep all day, not work, not pay rent, but on one condition - that he watches three films a week, of his father's choosing. What follows is an unusual journey as week by wee ...Show more
Wild Tales by Graham Nash
$14.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Graham Nash, lead singer and principal songwriter of the Hollies, then member of supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, made the incredible and possibly unique journey from 60s Manchester to Swinging London to sunny California. And along the way he created many of the iconic songs which defined a ...Show more
Ian Dury: the definitive biography by Will Birch
$12.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
This is the definitive biography of Ian Dury, published on the tenth anniversary of his death. Widely described as 'punk's poet laureate', Ian Dury is a cultural icon. With his band The Blockheads, he exploded onto the television screen in 1978, appearing on Top of the Pops with his hit single "What a W ...Show more
Eric Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
Eric Clapton is far more than a rock star. Like Dylan and McCartney he is an icon and a living legend. He has sold tens of millions of records, played sell-out concerts all over the world and been central to every significant musical development of his era. His guitar playing has seen him hailed as 'God ...Show more