The Queen by Matthew Dennison
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An elegant and magisterial new biography of Her Majesty The Queen.'A worthy and balanced overview of the Queen's life. Dennison is especially good on her childhood ... Quietly, tactfully, tastefully reverent' The TimesFor millions of people, both in Britain and across the world, Elizabeth II is the embo ...Show more
The Queen: The Life and Times of Elizabeth II by Catherine Ryan
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The Queen is a timely book with beautiful photos and fascinating details about one of the most famous women of modern times: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning British monarch in history."Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust." --Queen E ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
$38.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
Grand: Becoming my mother's daughter by Noelle McCarthy
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The astonishing debut memoir about mothers and daughters, drinking, birth and loss, running away and homecoming from prize-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy. "I'll be grand, girl, I've great faith." —Mammy, just before she died. Funny, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in p ...Show more
Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens
$43.00 NZD
Category: Biography
THE TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARNamed one of The Irish Times' Books of the Year for 2021 A compelling and comprehensive look at the life and art of Francis Bacon, one of the iconic painters of the twentieth century--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of de Kooning: An American Master. This intima ...Show more
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year.'Astounding' Sebastian Barry'A masterpiece' Ayad Akhtar'This little book is ruminative, humane, and gorgeously precise'Jonathan LethemIn this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn ...Show more
The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond by Chris Long
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary life. On the West Coast of the South Island, past deep fiords and snow-capped mountains, Chris Long grew up two days' hike from the nearest road. He was born into the country's most isolated family, his parents committed to freedom from ...Show more
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab by Marina Wheeler
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A deeply personal story of identity and a highly relatable journey for many in the diaspora... Wheeler taps a rich vein of personal history... Evocative... Gripping.' - F ...Show more
Real Estate by Deborah Levy
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'Following the international critical and commercial success of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and bo ...Show more
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography
From the bestselling author of A Very English Scandal, the jaw-dropping life story of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell.In February 1991, the media mogul and former MP Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour aboard his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to complete his purcha ...Show more
Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr. by Marc Andrus
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The never-before-told story of the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh-icons who changed each other and the worldThe day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their mutual friend Raphael Gould. He said- "I did not s ...Show more