Philip and Elizabeth by Gyles Brandreth
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
This is the first biography of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh - both royal, both great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria, but, in temperament and upbringing, two very different people. The Queen's childhood was loving and secure, the Duke's was turbulent: his grandfather assassinated, his fathe ...Show more
Confessions of a Sociopath by M. E. Thomas
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Confessions of a Sociopath is both the memoir of a high-functioning, law-abiding (well, mostly) sociopath and a roadmap -- right from the source -- for dealing with the sociopath in your life.As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, "We are your neighbors, your coworkers, and quite possibly the peo ...Show more
The Road Home: A True Story Continues by Barbara Biggs
$12.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Sequel to 'In Moral Danger'(ISBN 0957912145). At 13 she runs away from a home for wayward girls. At 16 she admits herself to a psychiatric hospital. At 18, she escapes Cambodia as it falls to the Khmer Roughe. At 19, she is a prostitute in Japan and at 21, she threw unionism into chaos making headlines ...Show more
For the Love of A Child by Betty Mahmoody
$12.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
In 1986, Betty Mahmoody and her daughter made a daring escape from Iran into Turkey and freedom, leaving behind a husband and father who had commended them to a life of forcible exile. The story of that experience, Not Without my Daughter, became an international bestseller, with 15 million copies sold ...Show more
A Story of Seven Summers: Life at the Nuns' House by Hilary Burden
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
'Looking back over seven summers, I know that who I am is where I am. It might not be the secret to life, but it is the secret to this life...I'll tell you how that came to be and that will be the story of The Nuns' House.' On the outside, Hilary Burden was living a glamorous life - she was a busy, high ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
$12.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Ame ...Show more
Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh by Mike Leigh
$15.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
This new edition updates Mike Leigh's career to his most recent films, Mister Turner and the epicmasterpiece Peterloo. This new revised edition brings Mike Leigh's career up-to-date, including his film about J.M.W. Turner, MisterTurner, and his epic masterpiece, Peterloo. Five-time Oscar nominee and BAF ...Show more
The Final Curtain: A Celebration of the Life of Frank Sinatra
$15.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
A salute to Frank Sinatra with more than 150 photographs from a wide variety of sources and showing the singer at each stage of his career.
Hudson & Halls - The food of love by Drayton Joanne
$18.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story, though a love story it certainly is. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock bad attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s to that unspoken thing - homosexuality. Peter Hudson and David Halls became reluctan ...Show more
The Unseen Eric Morecambe : the lost diaries, jokes and photographs by William Cook (ed)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
This is a completely original and beautifully designed book on Eric Morecambe, one of the UK's best loved entertainers. Containing diary entries, unseen photographs and personal letters, this is the most revealing book yet on Morecambe. Posthumously voted 'Comedian of the Century' in 1999 and reaching n ...Show more
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
$16.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
The explosive new book by the bestselling author of The Mountbattens. Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the former king was kept in exile, feuding with his family over status for his wife, Wallis Simpson, and ...Show more
Vivien Leigh by Hugo Vickers
$14.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
At the age of twenty-six, Vivien Leigh crossed the Atlantic and walked off with the coveted role of Gone with the Wind's Scarlett O'Hara under the noses of some of Hollywood's most famous stars... Arrestingly beautiful, quick-witted, and ultimately vulnerable, Leigh has drawn the attention of many biogr ...Show more