MORE Late Life Adventures in London & Beyond by Annemarie Rawson
Category: Biography/Memoir
Join Annemarie and her husband Steve in their inspiring travelogue as they explore London’s hidden gems, the UK, and a host of enticing European destinations. Experience the beauty of the fascinating places they visit, immerse yourself in local history and culture, meeting local characters while savouri ...Show more
Down With the System: The highly-awaited memoir from the System Of A Down legend by Serj Tankian
Category: Biography/Memoir
The incredible first memoir by System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian. With nearly 40 million record sales, three albums topping the Billboard charts, a Grammy win and a legion of fans, System Of A Down are one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. At their core has always been Serj Tankian, whose ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
Category: Biography/Memoir | 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
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
Category: Biography/Memoir
** Winner 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction ** A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy ...Show more
CSNY: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young by Peter Doggett
Category: Biography/Memoir
An engaging and illuminating biography focused on the formative and highly influential early years of "rock's first supergroup" (Rolling Stone) Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young--when they were the most successful, influential, and politically potent band in America. After making their marks in popular ba ...Show more
Run for Your Life: The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced Into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets by Sue Williams
Category: Biography/Memoir
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
Hine Toa: A Story of Bravery by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Category: Biography/Memoir
An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Maori liberation movements. In the 1950s, a young Ngahuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living. But whanau dismiss her ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Category: Biography/Memoir
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Dame Suzy D: My Story by Susan Devoy
Category: Biography/Memoir
A four-time world squash champion, Dame Susan Devoy has led a remarkably varied life. She's been Race Relations Commissioner, a television star, a newspaper columnist, raised four boys and met Bill Clinton and King Charles. Fiercely driven and wildly competitive, her straight up style and hilarious turn ...Show more
Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
Category: Biography/Memoir
A massive, predatory bird and its place in history and myth. The legend of Pouakai, aka the extinct Haast's Eagle, takes Peter Walker on a journey from an 1860s Canterbury sheep run to a deep cave near Karamea as he learns the story of the mighty hunter that inhabited a peak in the foothills of the Sout ...Show more
The Long and Winding Road by Lesley Pearse
Category: Biography/Memoir
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
Naomi Osaka by Ben Rothenberg
Category: Biography/Memoir
This deeply revealing biography of tennis phenomenon Naomi Osaka tells the story behind her grand slam-winning career and her advocacy for racial justice and mental health. Most tennis fans met the Haitian-American-Japanese player Naomi Osaka for the first time as they watched her win the 2018 US Open i ...Show more