A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$59.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
A Small Town in Ukraine - The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before.Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated- Krakowiec (Krah- ...Show more
A Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Loss, Exile and Hope by Gulchehra Hoja
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
A powerful and urgent memoir by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja - a remarkable woman who went from being a beloved star on Chinese children's TV to a journalist whose reporting on the oppression of her people led to her entire extended family being imprisoned.A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A ...Show more
A Year at the Chateau by Dick Strawbridge; Angel Strawbridge
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside, the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairytale chateau, complete with 45 rooms, seven outbuildings, 12 acres of land and its own moat. Thro ...Show more
Absolutely: A Memoir by Joanna Lumley
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Joanna Lumley is one of Britain's undisputed national treasures, an English actress, voiceover artist and author, best known for her roles in the British television series ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS portraying Edina Monsoon's best friend, Patsy Stone, as well as parts in THE NEW AVENGERS and SAPPHIRE & STE ...Show more
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon by Alan Partridge
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the odds. TWICE. Using an innovative 'dual narrative' structure you sometimes see in films, Big Beacon tells the story of how Partridge heroically rebuilt his TV career, rising like a phoenix from the desolate ...Show more
Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 1994-1997 by Alastair Campbell
$14.99 NZD
$32.99 (54% off)
Category: Biography/Autobiography
As Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years, it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spokesman and chief strategist to Tony Blair. "Prelude to Power" is the first of four volumes, and covers the early days of New Labour, culminating in their vic ...Show more
Alex Ferguson : My Autobiography by Alex Ferguson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Sir Alex announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United after 27 years in the role. He has gone out in a blaze of glory, with United winning the Premier League for the 13th time, and he is widely considered to be the greatest manager in the history of British football. Over the last quarter of ...Show more
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City by Edmund Richardson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
'This is a jewel of a book' - SUNDAY TIMES'One of the great stories of archaeology, exploration and espionage' - William Dalrymple'Immensely enjoyable' - BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE____________________________________For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and Wes ...Show more
Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did th ...Show more
All In: The Autobiography of Billie Jean King by Billie Jean King
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
An intimate self-portrait encompassing the life, times, and career of one of the most transformative individuals -- let alone athletes -- of recent timesIn this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career -- six years ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | 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