Chinese Cinderella- Adeline Yen Mah

The secret story of an unwanted daughter.
Softcover,1999,233 pgs.
ISBN- 0141304871
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Man Who Listens To Horses

Autobiography of Monty Roberts.
Hardback with dj,1996,308 pgs.
ISBN- 0091802067
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Grey Owl- Armand Garnett Ruffo

The mystery of Archie Belany.
Softcover,1997,217 pgs.
ISBN- 1550501097
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Jean Batten Garbo Of The Skies- Ian Mackersey

A biography of Jean's sad and elusive live.
Hardback with dj,1991,365 pgs.
ISBN- 0356195732
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Darwin- Adrian Desmond & James Moore

Comprehensive biography.
Trade pb,1991,808 pgs.
ISBN- 0718134303
Condition- D

Price: NZ $15.00

Richard Branson- Losing My Virginity

Autobiography.
Softcover,1999,488 pgs.
ISBN- 0091841615
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Clementine Churchill

A biography by her daughter Mary Soames.
Hardback with dj ,1979,556 pgs.
ISBN- 0304303216
Condition- C

Price: NZ $15.00

The Topp Twins Book- Jools and Lynda Topp

Childhood on the farm,leaving home and early breaks into the music business.
Softcover,2003,128 pgs.
ISBN- 0143018604
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Devil That Danced On Water- Aminatta Forna

An African memoir.
Softcover,2002,403 pgs.
ISBN- 0006531261
Condition - C

Price: NZ $10.00

Paula- Isabel Allende

A mother's agony at the bedside of her daughter.
Softcover,1996,330 pgs.
ISBN- 0006548563
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Isabel Allende- My Invented Country

A Memoir.
Trade pb,2003,198 pgs.
ISBN- 0007163118
Condition - C

Price: NZ $10.00

Once An Australian- Ian Britain

Journeys with Barry Humphries,Clive James,Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes.
Softcover,1998,290 pgs.
ISBN- 0195508041
Condiition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

mikepero- More Than Mortgages

From motorbikes to mortgages and a brand worth millions.
Softcover,2004,202 pgs.
ISBN- 095823566X
Condition- A

Price: NZ $12.00

One Day In July- John Tulloch

Survivor of the Edgeware Road bomb- a harrowing tale.
Trade pb,2006,232 pgs.
ISBN- 0316029882
Condition - B

Price: NZ $10.00

Diamonds And Dust- Sheryl McCorry

The story of a million-acre cattle queen.
Trade pb,2008,291 pgs.
ISBN- 9781405037754
Condition- A

Price: NZ $15.00

Matt Preston- Cravat-A-Licious

The selected works of the Masterchef critic.
Trade pb,2009,404 pgs.
ISBN- 9781741669671
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Witnessing History- Jennifer Zeng

One woman's fight for freedom and Falun Gong.
Trade pb,2005,359 pgs.
ISBN- 1741144000
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Torn Apart- James Patterson & Hal Friedman

A childhood lost to Tourett's Syndrome.
Trade pb,2008,289 pgs.
ISBN- 9781741800999
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Secrets Behind My Smile- June Dally-Watkins

1949 Australia's Model Of The Year.
From bush to catwalk & poolside Hollywood parties.
Trade pb,2002,279 pgs.
ISBN- 0670041726
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Louise Nicholas- My Story

With Philip Kitchen.The story behind the claims of rape by policemen.
Trade pb,2007,244 pgs.
ISBN- 9781869418731
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Stuart A Life Backwards- Alexander Masters

The story of Stuart Shorter- thief,hostage-taker,psycho and street raconteur.
Softcover,2006,296 pgs.
ISBN- 0007200374
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

His Brother's Keeper- Jonathan Weiner

One family's race to cure the incurable.
Trade pb,2004,356 pgs.
ISBN- 0007192649
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Year Of The Horse- Sam Mahon

A year if the life of artist Sam Mahon.
Softcover,2002,237 pgs.
ISBN- 1877135739
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

I Am Jackie Chan- My Life In Action

Autobiography.
paperback,1999,398 pgs.
ISBN- 1865081310
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

The Sewing Circles Of Herat- Christina Lamb

A unique perspective on Afghanistan.
Softcover,2002,338 pgs.
ISBN- 0007157886
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Higher Than Hope- Fatima Meer

Authorized biography of Nelson Mandela.
Hardback with dj,1988,426 pgs.
ISBN- 0241127874
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Alan Alda- Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself

Biography.
Trade pb,2007,209 pgs.
ISBN- 9780091921064

Price: NZ $10.00

Living On The Seabed- Lindsay Nicholson

A memoir of love,life and survival.
The loss of both husband and child to leukemia.
Softcover,2005,250 pgs.
ISBN- 0091900158
Condition- A

Price: NZ $10.00

Bill Bryson- Made In America

Bryson de-mythologizes his native land.
Softcover,1994,478 pgs.
ISBN- 0552998052
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Bill Bryson- Down Under

Bill discovers Australia.
Softcover,2001,397 pgs.
ISBN- 055299703X
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Bill Bryson- Notes From A Big Country

After moving back to the States, Bryson started to write a column for "The Mail on Sunday Night and Day" magazine. This is a collection of these column entries. Bryson writes about everything from everyday chores, to sueing people, the beach, TV, movies, air conditioners, college, Americana, injury dangers, wasting resources and holiday season.
Softcover,1998,398 pgs.
ISBN- 0552997862
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

A Royal Duty- Paul Burrell

Autobiography by Diana's butler.
Trade pb,2003,395 pgs.
ISBN- 0718147413
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Memoirs Of A Bastard Angel- Harold Norse

50 years in the vanguard of homosexual subculture on three continents.
Trade pb,1990,447 pgs.
ISBN- 0747507562

Price: NZ $12.00

Kitty Kelly- The Royals

A different view of the Royal Family.
Trade pb,1997,552 pgs.
ISBN- 0733801625
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Shelly Has a Baby- Shelly West

Her remarkable story- criipled as a toddler by rheumatoid arthritis,blind at 19 from side effects of medication and now- a mother.
Softcover,1997,140 pgs.
ISBN- 1869533712
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Teacher Man- Frank McCourt

Author of -Angela's Ashes & Tis.
The third book in his autobiographical series.
Hardback with dj,2005,256 pgs.
ISBN- 0007173989
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

In Moral Danger- Barbara Biggs

At 13 she runs away
At 16 she is admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
At 18 she escapes Cambodia from the Khymer rouge
At 19 she is a prostitute in Japan.
Softcover,2005,346 pgs.
ISBN- 0957912145
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Road Home- Barbara Biggs

The sequel to- In Moral Danger.
From prostitute to property millionaire.
Softcover,2004,356 pgs.
ISBN- 0646431226
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Speckled People- Hugo Hamilton

A German-Irish childhood in 1950's Dublin.
Softcover,2004,298 pgs.
ISBN- 0007148119
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Carmen Bin Ladin- The Veiled Kingdom

A unique insight into Saudi society and the Bin Laden family.
Softcover,2004,209 pgs.
ISBN- 1844081028
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Lake With No Name- Diane Wei Liang

The story of a young woman's life altered irrevocably by the Tiananmen Square protests in June 1989.
Trade pb,2003,335 pgs.
ISBN- 0755312066
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Every Day's A Good Day- Williiam Pike

The inspirational true story of William Pike's survival on Mt Ruapehu.
Softcover,2008,248 pgs .
ISBN- 9780143304197
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Life In His Hands- Susan Wyndham

The true story of a medical maverick and an artist who refused to be daunted by death.
Trade pb,2008,295 pgs.
ISBN- 9781405038379
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

Olga's Story- Stephanie Williams

At seventeen, Olga Yunter joined her brothers in their fight against the Bolsheviks. She was forced to flee to China, with rubies sewn into her petticoats. Twice more, Olga would be forced to leave everything behind. From the comfort of her family to the terror of revolution, war and exile, this is a tale of the author's grandmother.
Softcover,2006,415 pgs.
ISBN- 0141011521
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Explorations- Robert D.Ballard

Autobiography of the adventurer who discovered the remains of the Titanic and other great wrecks.
Trade pb,1996,407 pgs,illustrated.
ISBN- 1857997719
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

The Woman On The Mountain- Sharyn Munro

A woman's love affair with the mountain wilderness she calls home.
Trade pb,2007,272 pgs.
ISBN- 9780908988709
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Between Mexico and Poland- Lily Brett

Set between journeys to the places of its title, Between Mexico and Poland traces a number of emotional voyages as Lily Brett turns a brutally honest and unflinching eye on herself. In her most honest and personal book yet, she ranges from the devastation of losing her home to fire several years ago, to powerful insights into her adopted city, New York, and how it has changed forever since September 11, 2001.
Trade pb,2002,442 pgs.
ISBN- 0330363867
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Always An Outsider- Colin Amery

An unconventional journey from spy to wandering poet to lawyer.
Trade pb,2007,248 pgs.
ISBN- 9781877393235
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

The Voyage Of Their Life- Diane Armstrong

SS Derna- a ship full of European WW refugees bound for Australia and New Zealand- full of hope but dogged by catastrophe and controversy.
Trade pb,2001,482 pgs.
ISBN- 0732268680
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Angela's Ashes-Frank McCourt

Irish-American Frank McCourt looks back with sadness and affection at his first 18 years of growing up in New York and Ireland.
Trade pb,1996,363 pgs.
ISBN- 0002558122
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

A Stranger In Paradise- Julie Chambers

One morning, a young woman lay dying of multiple stab wounds on her own driveway. She came through the nightmare that followed, laughing. This book describes what happened.
Ex-library hardback with dj,1995,310 pgs.
ISBN- 0747523002
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

From Strength To Strength- Sara Henderson

The second of Sara Henderson's books on her struggle to maintain the huge outback ranch Bullo River.
Trade pb,1992,337 pgs.
ISBN- 0725107251
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Some Of My Friends Have Tails- Sara Henderson

Animal tales from Sara Henderson's outback ranch Bullo River.
Hardback with dj,1995,260 pgs.
ISBn- 0732908175

Price: NZ $10.00

Man & Wife- Ann Oakley

Examines the relationship between the author's parents, their working lives and the foundation of the welfare state and her relationship with them .
Hardback with dj,1996,338 pgs.
ISBN- 0002556650
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Sounds Of The River- Da Chen

A coming-of-age story that is both absorbing and moving. It begins with teenager Da Chen's first train journey to Beijing University from his parents' farm, armed with a determination to learn English and about 'all things Western', in order to win a rare chance to study in the USA.
Softcover,2003,307 pgs.
ISBN- 0099453827
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Mrs Keppel And Her Daughter- Diana Souhami

Alice Keppel was mistress to Edward VII and great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles. Her daughter, Violet, was fascinated by her mother's glamour and power. Based on memoirs, diaries and letters, this book tells the story of their relationship.
Softcover,1996,338 pgs.
ISBN- 0006387144
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

A Step Too Far- Peter Bland

Adventure and survival in some of the world's most inhospitable places- an absorbing study of a great Australian adventurer.
Trade pb,2002,291 pgs.
ISBN- 0732911540
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Toast:The Story Of A Boy's Hunger- Nigel Slater

'Toast' is top food writer Nigel Slater's eat-and-tell autobiography. Detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked his passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer, this is also a catalogue of how the British have eaten over the last three decades.
Softcover,2003,247 pgs.
ISBN- 0007174934
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Bonfire Of Berlin- Helga Schneider

Abandoned by her mother, who left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her step-mother, cooped up in a cellar, starved, parched, lonely amidst the fetid crush of her neighbours, Helga Schneider endured the horrors of wartime Berlin.
Hardback with dj,2005,220 pgs.
ISBN- 0434010502
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Vikram Seth- Two Lives

Part history, part biography, part memoir, this is the story of the century and of a love affair across a racial divide.
Hardback with dj,2005,503 pgs.
ISBN- 0316727741
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

The Day That Changed My Life- Carmel Reilly

Personal accounts of life-transforming experiences.
Trade pb,2006,311 pgs.
ISBN- 1845293681
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Stalin- Robert Service

A shocking and compelling biography.
Softcover,2004,715 pgs.
ISBN- 9780330419130
Condition-C

Price: NZ $12.00

The Naked Rower- Rob Hamill

Rob Hamill and his dream to win the world's first trans-Atlantic rowing race.
Softcover(photos),2000,231 pgs.
ISBN- 1869587669
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Fear Of The Collar:The True Story Of The Boy They Couldn't Break-Patrick Touher

Continuous labour,never-ending hunger,malacious cruelty and sexual assault- this was not a normal childhood.
Softcover,2007,262 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Between A Rock And A Hard Place- Aaron Ralston

The amazing story of how Aaron lost an arm after it being trapped by a rock in a canyoning accident.
illustrated (photos) trade pb,2004,354 pgs.
ISBN- 0743263545
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Desert Rose- Mary Weijun Collins

Ten year's exile in the Gobi desert- a story of suffering,romance and resilience.
Trade pb,2004,288 pgs.
ISBN- 0143019376
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

The Enigma Of Sister Mary Leo- Margaret Lovell-Smith

The story behind New Zealand's most famous singing teacher.
Trade pb,1998,228 pgs.
ISBN- 0790006529
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Zone 22- Tig Hague

In July 2003 a young Englishman was arrested at Moscow airport.
It was the beggining of a journey to hell and back.
Trade pb,2008,386 pgs.
ISBN- 9780718153571
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

Marching Powder- Rusty Young

A true story of friendship,cocaine and South America's strangest jail.
Trade pb,2043,371 pgs.
ISBN- 073291180X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

From The Land Of Green Ghosts- Pascal Khoo Thwe

A moving story that follows the author from the hardships of guerilla warfare in Burma to the hallowed halls of Cambridge University.
Softcover,2002,392 pgs.
ISBN- 0007116829
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Mitford Girls- Mary S.Lovell

The biography of an extraordinary family.
Softcover with photos,2001,611 pgs.
ISBN- 0349115052
Condition- B
Pre.owner's name clipped from title page.

Price: NZ $15.00

Sleeping With The Dead- Marko Cunningham

A Kiwi working with Bangkok's bodysnathchers.
Trade pb,1990,315 pgs.
ISBN- 9781869792701
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Cindy-Breaking The Cycle- Cindy Gibbons

A brave,moving and uplifting account of one woman's struggles against the odds.
Trade pb,2002,208 pgs.
ISBN- 1869414772
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Blackbird:A Childhood Lost- Jennifer Lauck

An ordinary girl growing up in the 1970s-the extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost.
Trade pb,2000,406 pgs.
ISBN- 0316857084
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

For The Love Of My Mother- J.P.Rodgers

A heart-breaking story of a young Irish girl locked away in Catholic institutions,forced to work in an infamous Magdelene Laundry and separated from her illegitimate son.
Trade pb,2005,409 pgs.
ISBN- 9780755315536
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

Things That Must Not Be Forgotten- Michael David Kwan

A Childhood In Wartime China.
Trade pb,2000,212 pgs.
ISBN- 073227074X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Aberfan- Struggling Out Of The Darkness- Gaynor Madgwick

A survivor's tale of the collapse of a coal mine slag heap in the welsh village of Aberfan.
Illustrated softcover,1996,73 pgs.
ISBN- 1898986053
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Fall Down Laughing- David L.Lander

American actor David Lander's vibrant account of how he tried to conceal and then battle multiple sclerosis.
Hardback with dj,2000,200 pgs.
ISBN- 1585420522
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Legs On Everest- Mark Inglis

The legless man who conquered Mt Everest.
Softcover (with photos),2006,191 pgs.
ISBN- 1869418700
Condition- B

Price: NZ $15.00

Stephen King On Writing

A memoir of the craft.
Paperback,2001,367 pgs.
ISBN- 034076998X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

My Family Is All I Have- Helen Alice Dear

A British woman's story of escaping the Nazis and surviving the communists.
Softcover,2007,312 pgs.
ISBN- 9780091912239
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

I Choose To Live- Sabine Dardenne

On 28 May 1996 Sabine Dardenne was kidnapped by Marc Dutroux- one of Europe's most notorious paedophiles.
Softcover,2006,213 pgs.
ISBN- 1844082687
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Safe Passage- Ida Cook

The remarkable true story of British sisters who rescued Jews from the Nazis.
Softcover,2008,286 pgs.
ISBN- 9781741168730
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Running With Scissors- Augusten Burroughs

The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt, a pedophile's life in a barn, and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.
Softcover,2002,315 pgs.
ISBN- 031242227X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00