The Last Secret Agent: The untold story of my life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines by Pippa Latour
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations ...Show more
Dame Suzy D: My Story by Susan Devoy
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A four-time world squash champion, Dame Susan Devoy has led a remarkably varied life. She's been Race Relations Commissioner, a television star, a newspaper columnist, raised four boys and met Bill Clinton and King Charles. Fiercely driven and wildly competitive, her straight up style and hilarious turn ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL'Janet Frame is the greatest Ne ...Show more
Going Solo (Classic Collection) by Roald Dahl
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: The\Roald Dahl Classic Collection
Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the ...Show more
Boy: Tales of Childhood (Classic Collection) by Roald Dahl
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: The\Roald Dahl Classic Collection
Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine. This beautiful edition of Boy, part of The Roald Dahl Cla ...Show more
The Stirrings - A Memoir in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: the North of England in the 1970s and 80s. About the scorching summer of 1976 - the last Catherine Taylor would spend with both her parents in their home in Sheffield. About the Yorkshire Ripper, the ser ...Show more
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life. From Bletchley Park cod ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$39.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Private Equity by Carrie Sun
$39.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A gripping memoir of one woman's self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture When we meet Carrie Sun, she can't shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie excelled in school, graduat ...Show more
A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The stunning autobiography of Barbara Pym, celebrated author of Quartet in Autumn, Jane and Prudence, and Excellent Women."I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym." RICHARD OSMAN"Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure." JILLY COOPER"Could ...Show more
Stay True by Hua Hsu
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, TIME, Rolling Stone 'One of the best nonfiction books about friendship ever, right up there with Patti Smith’s Just Kids’ – The Atlantic When Hua Hsu first meets Ken in a Berkele ...Show more
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage. In her mid-thirties Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot--an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those ye ...Show more