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Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'Home Work is written with a warm heart and a generous spirit ... an honest attempt to make sense of an often chaotic life' SUNDAY EPXRESS 'The book is filled with that most distinctive of all her qualities: her voice ... Mary Poppins may appear only briefly here, but her spirit is alive and well' THE ...Show more
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home", her remarkable graphic memoir about her father, established itself immediately as a classic of the genre, being chosen as "Time" Magazine's Best Book of the Year for 2006, while "The Times" called it 'a profound and important book'. Now Bechdel has written another memoir, eq ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
$21.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more
Healing Lives: Mamitu Gashe and Dr. Catherine Hamlin by Sue Williams
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
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
The Boy Who Felt Too Much by Lorenz Wagner
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Henry Markram is the Elon Musk of neuroscience, the man behind the billion-dollar Blue Brain Project to build a supercomputer model of the brain. He has set the goal of decoding all disturbances of the mind within a generation. This quest is personal for him. The driving force behind his grand ambition ...Show more
Born Free: The Story of Elsa (Macmillan Collectors Library) by Joy Adamson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In 1960, Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa - the lioness she had rescued as an orphaned cub and raised to adulthood at her home in Kenya. But, as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision to return her to the wild. Since the first publicati ...Show more
My Family And Other Animals (Popular Penguin) by Gerald Durrell
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more
Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success of Platoon in 1 ...Show more
Call The Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s (Call the Midwife #1) by Jennifer Worth
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endur ...Show more
Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside by Andrea Di Robilant
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From the author of the best-selling "A Venetian Affair," here is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious old rose. Andrea di Robilant's tale takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, as well as into some of the most delightful rose gardens in Italy today, brought to ...Show more
The Living Mountain - A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd; Robert Macfarlane (Introduction by); Jeanette Winterson (Afterword by)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable lands ...Show more
The Hard Way - Adapt, Survive and Win by Mark 'Billy' Billingham
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark 'Billy' Billingham. They are the backbone of the British military and I for one am thankful he is on our side!' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'Billy is inspirational and always humble. A giant of a man!' - Bear Grylls 'The most experienced Specia ...Show more