Shackleton: How the Captain of the newly discovered Endurance saved his crew in the Antarctic by Ranulph Fiennes
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The enthralling life, endurance and incredible leadership of Sir Ernest Shackleton, told by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes.To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endu ...Show more
Sons of a Good Keen Man: Life in the shadow of Barry Crump by The Crump Brothers
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Barry Crump - the man, the myth, the father. 'Barry was never a father to me, but he did become a friend.'- Martin Crump Barry Crump was a titan of New Zealand writing, his semi-autobiographical novels about life as a rugged outdoorsman selling more than a million copies. In his time, he was held up a ...Show more
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerisingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic.
Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt's Search for Freedom and Identity in New York's Greenwich Village by Jan Jarboe Russell
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A "riveting and enlightening account" (Bookreporter) of a mostly unknown chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt--when she moved to New York's Greenwich Village, shed her high-born conformity, and became the progressive leader who pushed for change as America's First Lady. Hundreds of books have be ...Show more
The Go-Between - A Portrait of Growing up Between Different Worlds by Osman Yousefzada
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An enlightening memoir of living between worlds and learning how to find one's own - from the renowned fashion designer. A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the t ...Show more
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A Guardian book of the yearA Times book of the yearA Spectator book of the yearA Daily Mail book of the yearAn Evening Standard book of the yearA Stella Magazine book of the year From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kit ...Show more
Dancing with the Machine by Jo Morgan; John McCrystal
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Mountaineer, adventurer, avid motorcyclist and constant traveller, Jo Morgan has lived an extraordinary life.The youngest of eight children, Jo was brought up largely by her mum after her father died when she was only one, and she has always had an adventurous side. As soon as she turned 15, Jo got her ...Show more
A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood by Helen Mort
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A stunning memoir of motherhood and mountaineering by one of Britain's most gifted poets, for readers of H is for Hawk and The Outrun. Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death. Helen Mort has always been ...Show more
Queen of Our Times - The Life of Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The definitive new biography of Her Majesty The Queen by one of Britain's leading royal authorities. With original insights from those who know her best, unseen papers, new interviews with world leaders and a fresh perspective on the longest reign in British history, Robert Hardman tells the full life s ...Show more
The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists by Tracy Walder, Jessica Anya Blau
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs "Reads like the show bible for <i>Homeland</i> only her story is real." —Alison Stewart, WNYC "A thrilling tale...Walder’s fast-paced and intense narrat ...Show more
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is wide-ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom. Stretching from her tumultuous childhood, to the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, from a disastrous marriage to a happy one, from the joy of selling her first book ...Show more