This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor: Now a major BBC comedy-drama by Adam Kay
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Now A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards. 'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior ...Show more
The Smallest Lights in the Universe - A Memoir by Sara Seager
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
In this luminous memoir, an MIT astrophysicist must reinvent herself in the wake of tragedy and discovers the power of connection on this planet, even as she searches our galaxy for another Earth. "Sara Seager's exploration of outer and inner space makes for a stunningly original memoir."--Abraham V ...Show more
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage. In her mid-thirties Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot--an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those ye ...Show more
Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' - a memoir about finding an identity, a voice and laughter. A funny, elegant, moving memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known authors, a woman who finally rebelled against being a handmaiden. By the time Barbara Else was ...Show more
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A ground-breaking book that examines the place of women in twentieth-century philosophy and is a call to arms for the present dayWINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOKElizabeth Anscombe- defiantly brilliant, chain-smoking, trouser-wear ...Show more
Enchantment by Katherine May
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
From the internationally bestselling author of Wintering comes this balm for anxious times and an invitation to rediscover the feelings of awe and wonder available to us all. Our sense of enchantment is not only triggered by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time ...Show more
Sons For The Return Home: (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
$15.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
Unexplained Deaths - The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training. People often got away with murder. That is, until Frances Glessner Lee.Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962), born a socialite to a wea ...Show more
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Writers on Writers Ser.
A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time whe ...Show more
To Be Fair - Confessions of a District Court Judge by Rosemary Riddell
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Retired judge Rosemary Riddell shares her reminiscences of life on the bench, complete with its humour, frustrations and poignant moments. A unique glimpse into a world most of us can only imagine, her story is a fascinating commentary on New Zealand life from the point of view of a woman involved in th ...Show more
The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved in ...Show more
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating. As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more