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Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A Gen-X This Boy's Life...Music and his fierce brilliance boost Jollett; a visceral urge to leave his background behind propels him to excel... In the end, Jollett shakes off the past to become the captain of his own soul. Hollywood Park is a triumph.' -O, The ...Show more
Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday Times In December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinar ...Show more
Oscar Garden : An Adventurous Aviator by ANNAMARIA. GARDEN
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
One day in 1930, a man walked into a department store in London and bought an aeroplane. Having just learned to fly, Oscar Garden dreamed of flying to Australia. In his newly purchased aeroplane, he did just that. This adventure and myriad others this risk-taker embarked on are recounted in this book. O ...Show more
The Times I Knew I Was Gay - A Graphic Memoir by Eleanor Crewes
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A tender and funny graphic memoir about identity, love and Willow from Buffy Ellie always knew she was different. Contrary and creative, she wore black, obsessed over Willow in Buffy and somehow never really liked boys. As she grew, so did her fears and a deep sense of unbelonging. From her first commun ...Show more
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013, twenty-nine-y ...Show more
This Is Not How It Ends: How Rewriting your Story can Save Your Life by Jehan Casinader
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A BOOK OF HEALING AND HOPE BY NEW ZEALAND TV JOURNALIST JEHAN CASINADER As an award-winning TV journalist, Jehan Casinader told other people's stories - until he lost control of his own. Severely depressed, he tried everything - from mindfulness to massage; Prozac to Pilates. Was something missing? Th ...Show more
Healing Lives by Sue Williams
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Two incredible women, an unlikely friendship, and a united mission to save the lives of some of the world's poorest and most desperate women. Healing Lives reveals the untold tale of Mamitu Gashe, Dr Catherine Hamlin's protégée, and the inspiring almost 60-year friendship between the two women.In 1962, ...Show more
Skin - The Memoir by Skin
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'It's been a very difficult thing being a lead singer of a rock band looking like me and it still is. I have to say it's been a fight and it will always be a fight. That fight drives you and makes you want to work harder . . . It's not supposed to be easy, particularly if you're a woman, you're black or ...Show more
Killing Time: Short Stories From the Long Road Home by Jimmy Barnes
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography
From the rock legend turned master storyteller, this collection of non-fiction short stories is vintage Jimmy. Stories of adventure, misadventure, love and loss from the #1 bestselling author of the critically acclaimed memoirs Working Class Boy and Working Class Man. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, ...Show more
Impossible: My Story by Stan Walker
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Everything has a reason. Everything has a purpose. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown ...Show more
Sorted - Growing up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (a Transgender Memoir) by Jackson Bird
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how, through a childhood of gender mishaps and an awkward adolescence, he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man in his mid-twenties. When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as a transgender to his fr ...Show more
The Covid Chronicles by Paul Little
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The dramatic story of New Zealand's response to a global pandemic. For the first time in history, on 15 March 2020 the New Zealand government closed the country's borders. What followed was a story unprecedented in almost every way imaginable. Featuring Finance Minister Grant Robertson, science commun ...Show more