Ma, it's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed by Martha Long
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In this latest instalment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her mother's partner and the establishment, Martha is now 16 and her time at the convent school is up. In "Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed", she leads us through her first mon ...Show more
The Big House : The story of a country house and its family by Christopher Simon Sykes
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good
The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250 years.On 17 June 1751 Richard Sykes, 'laid the first stone of the new house at Sledmere, in a God-forsaken spot high up on the Yorkshire Wolds, where wolves had roamed freely less than fifty years befor ...Show more
Columbus and The Conquest Of The Impossible by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$10.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Phoenix Press Ser. | Reading Level: good
A highly readable and controversial portrait of a man driven by religion, influenced by mysticism, and, at best, a primitive navigator who barely knew how to use his ship's instruments. A pre-eminent historian calls into question earlier findings by himself and other scholars. With a new introduction an ...Show more
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
"I knew I could only be killed once. I might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb". Irene was a 17-year-old nursing student when the Nazis invaded Poland. They took over her country and her life. Nothing in her innocent girlhood could have prepared her for the horrors she was to witness. However, ...Show more
Jem Sultan - The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe by John Freely
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A remarkable tale of empire and exile, restoring to vivid life one of the most extraordinary and colourful figures of medieval history. Jem Sultan, born in 1459, was one of the wonders of his age. A Turkish prince held captive in Europe at a time when the Ottoman Empire was at its peak, he was reno ...Show more
The Unfortunate Colonel Despard by MIke Jay
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Amedeo: A True Story of Love and War in Abyssinia by Sebastian O'Kelly
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In December 1941, a wounded and half-starved prisoner festered in the sweltering dungeon of Hodeida, the chief port of neutral Yemen. His fellow inmates viewed him with suspicion. Although his Arabic was fluent, the accent was not that of a Yemeni. Some said he was a soldier from the war between the Naz ...Show more
But Enough About Me by Burt Reynolds and Jon Winokur
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
In But Enough About Me, legendary film actor and Hollywood superstar Burt Reynolds recalls the people who shaped his life and career, for better or for worse. From Robert Altman, Cary Grant, Clint Eastwood, and Robert Mitchum, to Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, Woody Allen and Kirsty Alley, Burt pays homage ...Show more
Best Foot Forward by Adam Hills
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
*The Sunday Times Bestseller* A hilarious and honest collection of stories, thoughts, and tales of a life in comedy from the presenter of The Last Leg, Adam Hills Adam Hills is one the UK's best-loved comedians. For thirty years he has been performing stand-up, hosting TV shows and winning the hearts of ...Show more
Southern Justice by Colin McLaren
$15.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: near fine
Who really murdered Bob Chappell? Veteran ex-detective and author of JFK: The Smoking Gun, Colin McLaren, uncovers disturbing new evidence that an innocent woman is in jail. Daybreak, Sandy Bay, Hobart, 27 January 2009. A yacht, the Four Winds, is seen listing low to the waterline. When police board the ...Show more
Napoleon - His Wives and Women by Christopher Hibbert
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Dear Dad by Samuel Johnson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
From the team who gave you the bestselling DEAR SANTA comes an honest, moving, emotionally memorable collection of letters to their fathers from some of Australia's most notorious grown-ups. The perfect gift for the dad or dad figure in your life! If you could tell your dad anything, what would it be? S ...Show more