Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
In An Appetite for WonderRichard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continues ...Show more
Penguin Bloom: The odd little bird who saved a family: The award-winning, international bestselling sensation by BLOOM, CAMERON
35.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
PENGUIN BLOOM is a unique journey of recovery and an extraordinary celebration of life, featuring Cameron Bloom's exceptional photographs and a captivating narrative by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive. Penguin the Magpie is a global social media sensation with over 113k followers ...Show more
A Hope More Powerful than the Sea by Melissa Fleming
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
This is the story of Doaa, an ordinary girl from a village in Syria, who in 2015 became one of five hundred people crammed on to a fishing boat setting sail for Europe. The boat was deliberately capsized, and of those five hundred people, eleven survived; they were rescued four days after the boat sank. ...Show more
Rasputin: The Biography by Douglas Smith
55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. The spectre of the lustful Siberian holy man and peasant still casts its eerie shadow over Russia's bloody twentieth century. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysteri ...Show more
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War by Taras Grescoe
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Taras Grescoe spins the true story of a British aristocrat, an American flapper, and a Chinese poet who found themselves trapped in an unlikely love triangle amid the decadence of Jazz Age Shanghai. On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth centur ...Show more
Born a Crime: And Other Third World Problems by Trevor Noah
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Trevor Noah is the host of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, where he gleefully provides America with its nightly dose of serrated satire. He is a light-footed but cutting observer of the relentless absurdities of politics, nationalism and race -- and in particular the craziness of his own young life, wh ...Show more
Pumper by Jim Cassidy
44.99 NZD
Category: Biography And Memoir
'Just what you'd expect from the master horseman they called Pumper: cheeky, funny, brash, unrepentant...a rollicking good read.' Les CarlyonChampion Jockey Jim Cassidy is the ultimate 'colourful racing identity'.In a stellar 38-year career, 'The Pumper' won 104 Group 1 races, including two Melbourne Cu ...Show more
Maori Boy - A Memoir of Childhood by Witi Ihimaera
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This is the first volume of Witi Ihimaera's enthralling memoir, packed with stories of the formative years of this much-loved writer. Witi Ihimaera is a consummate storyteller - one critic calling him one of our 'finest and most memorable'. Some of his best stories, however, are about his own life. This ...Show more
Glacier Country: My Years at Franz Joseph by Ralph Warbuton
49.95 NZD
Category: Memoirs
IN THE 1940S, and while in his 30s, Ralph Warburton fell in love with the mountains. He gave up his job of watchmaker and trained as a glacier guide, later becoming official photographer for glacier parties at Franz Josef. His family formed and grew up in the tiny South Westland village, a remote spot b ...Show more
Snowing in Bali: The Incredible Inside Account of Bali's Hidden Drug World by Kathryn Bonella
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
From the internationally bestselling author of Hotel Kerobokan and Operation Playboy and co-author of Schapelle Corby's autobiography, this is the incredible inside account of Bali's hidden drug world."a unique, uncensored insight into a hidden world." The ChronicleIt's snowing in Bali. Among Bali's dru ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles: Popular Penguins by Alan Marshall
13.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood--a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides, and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers, and tellers of tall stories--a worl ...Show more
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
26.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Anne's thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends stay ...Show more