Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas: Festive Hospital Diaries From the Author of Multi-Million-Copy Hit This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
$22.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The number one Sunday Times bestseller. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book of festive diaries from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt.Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfe ...Show more
The Last Days: A Memoir of Faith, Desire and Freedom by Ali Millar
$35.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A lyrical and powerful memoir of leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses, from an exciting new literary talent. It is 1982 and in the Kingdom Hall we are Jehovah's Witnesses. The state of the world shows us the end is close, and Satan is like a roaring lion, seeking to devour us. Ali Millar is waiting for Arm ...Show more
The Elephants of Thula Thula: Finding peace and happiness with the herd by Françoise Malby-Anthony
$39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'Somehow, the elephants got into my soul, and it became my life's work to see them safe and happy. There was no giving up on that vision, no matter how hard the road was at times.'Françoise Malby-Anthony is the owner of a game reserve in South Africa with a remarkable family of elephants whose adventure ...Show more
Bushline - A Memoir by Robbie Burton
$39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Robbie Burton is a tramper, mountain-lover and book publisher, who has had a life-long infatuation with the wild places of New Zealand. In this memoir he recalls a childhood in which the natural world played a central part, and led to a youthful obsession with tramping, skiing and mountaineering. In hi ...Show more
Under a Big Sky - Facing the elements on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
$36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
The joys and challenges of day-to-day farming in extraordinary circumstances. Tim Saunders writes about his life and work on the farm that's been in his family for five generations. He encompasses drought, farming during lockdown, illness, financial pressure and the drive to become more viable and envir ...Show more
Owning It: The Ride that Changed my Life by Brad Smeele
$39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Deeply thoughtful, honest and riveting story of a high-achieving sportsman who became a quadriplegic. Brad Smeele's thrill-seeking, fast-paced life as a professional wakeboarder came to an abrupt halt eight years ago when an accident caused him to become a quadriplegic. Wakeboarding is like waterskiing ...Show more
Yes, Minister: An Insider's Account of the John Key years by Chris Finlayson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
An insightful and entertaining glimpse into what really made the John Key government one of the most successful conservative governments New Zealand has ever seen.
Faking It: My Life in Transition by Kyle Mewburn
$38.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Kyle Mewburn grew up in the sunburnt, unsophisticated Brisbane suburbs of the 1960s and '70s in a household with little love and no books, with a lifelong feeling of being somehow wrong - like 'strawberry jam in a spinach can'. In this book, Kyle describes this early life and her journey to becoming her ...Show more
The Rodchenkov Affair by Grigory Rodchenkov
$40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Can one man take down an empire? The Rodchenkov Affair is a breathtaking real-life political thriller. As a leading chemical scientist and Director of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, Dr Grigory Rodchenkov was at the forefront of global efforts to detect drugs cheats in sport. Yet he was simultaneous ...Show more
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures (Memoir) by Wilbur Smith
$24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and not get shot, but lucky enough to grow up among the heroes who had served in them and learn from their example. I have lucked into things continuously. I have done things which have seemed appalling at the time, d ...Show more