The Twat Files: A Hilarious Sort-Of Memoir of Mistakes, Mishaps and Mess-Ups by Dawn French
$30.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
A hugely relatable, funny, honest and inspirational 'memoir of sorts' in which Dawn celebrates what it means to be gloriously, messily human. When I was younger I wanted to be an interesting, sophisticated, semi-heroic, multi-layered person. BUT. That kind of perfect is impossible. Being an actual twa ...Show more
Servo: Tales from the Graveyard Shift by David Goodwin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
We've all filled up at a servo, but what's it like behind the counter, late at night, as a plethora of unhinged and maniacal souls totter in through the parting glass? David Goodwin worked the graveyard shift for six years in his home suburb of Werribee, and this is his hilarious and darkly mesmeric acc ...Show more
Run for Your Life: The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced Into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets by Sue Williams
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick moved to R ...Show more
Strong Female Character: Nero Book Awards Winner by Fern Brady
$28.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Prizewinner - Nero Prize for Non Fiction 2023 THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER 'An absolute riot. I'm literally going to read it again once I've finished, and I'm a miserable bastard...it's a belter' - FRANKIE BOYLE'A set text for all of us in 2023' - DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITEA summary of my book:1. I'm dia ...Show more
The Long and Winding Road by Lesley Pearse
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Lesley Pearse didn't publish her first novel until she was 48. Now she has sold over ten million books around the world and is a constant presence on the bestseller chart.A writer of heart-stopping stories, Lesley's books are filled with heroines struggling to make it in a difficult world.Yet this descr ...Show more
Exploring the World - Two Centuries of Remarkable Adventurers and Their Journeys by Alexander Maitland
$30.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have played a vital role in mankind's development. For almost two hundred years, the Royal Geographical Society has recognised their achievements by awarding its prestigious gold me ...Show more
Love From Venice: A golden summer on the Grand Canal by Gill Johnson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
In the summer of 1957, anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, while rebelling against her family, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in London and travelled to Venice to take up a job teaching English to an aristocratic Italian family. Lov ...Show more
The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open 'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?' Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London ...Show more
On Call - The Anatomy of My Life As a Surgeon, a Daughter, a Mother by Ineke Meredith
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Frank, sharp-witted and heart-rending, On Call is a stunning memoir by a female Samoan-New Zealand general surgeon about life, death, and the human limits of care As soon as she could, Ineke Meredith left her family home in Samoa for New Zealand, filled with determination not to be like her mother: lov ...Show more
The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-ac ...Show more
Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan by Bariz Shah
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
What does it take to find hope in dark places and change the course of your life? When Bariz Shah's family immigrated to New Zealand, they couldn't have predicted that everything would change after 9/11. Still only a child, Bariz became the target of racist abuse and bullying, and responded the only wa ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$39.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
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