Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
$13.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Popular Penguins
The Gonzo memoir from one of the most influential voices in American literature, Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. Thompson's life as a rebel--from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flaunting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, a ...Show more
Breaking and Mending by Joanna Cannon
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Wellcome Collection
'One of the most beautiful books you will ever read' Kate Mosse'I tore through Breaking and Mending... frank, emotional and compassionate' David Nicholls 'Powerful and moving' Nina Stibbe'Deeply moving and thought-provoking' Nathan Filer'Powerful, shocking and intimate' John Boyne"A few years ago, I fou ...Show more
Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading by Susan Hill
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's Room Is Full of Books. Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels through to Alan Bennett's diaries, Virginia Woolf and t ...Show more
Towards the Mountain: A Story of Grief and Hope Forty Years on from Erebus by Sarah Myles
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Marking the 40th anniversary of the Erebus disaster, this is the first book on that tragedy written by one of the affected families.
Who Am I, Again? by Lenny Henry
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Sir Lenny Henry is one of the UK's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time. A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense o ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Future by John Guy
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
Somewhere by Lorna Jane Harvey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
More people are likely migrating now than at any other time in history, and this is set to increase as climate change and political unrest pushes even more people to relocate. From the fleeing refugee to the political and economic migrant, a broad range of migration by people of many cultures, ethniciti ...Show more
Life as a Casketeer - What the Business of Death Can Teach the Living by Francis Tipene; Kaiora Tipene; Paul Little
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Stars of the hit television series The Casketeers, Francis and Kaiora Tipene aren't your typical funeral directors. With their famous humour and big-hearted personalities, the TVNZ and Netflix reality TV stars are changing the way we think about death and grief. Life As A Casketeer reveals how Francis a ...Show more
The Boat That Brought Me by Nick Bridge
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The only New Zealander to have been attacked by a library, former diplomat Nick Bridge writes of his liberation from English class constraints and an education at a Hampshire prep school to the opportunities of 1950s New Zealand and a co-ed state school in Hutt Valley, which took him eventually to seven ...Show more
Relentless - How a Mother and Daughter Defied the Odds by Lisa Tamati
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
When extreme endurance athlete, Lisa Tamati, was confronted with the hardest challenge of her life, she fought with everything she had. Her beloved mother, Isobel, had suffered a brain aneurysm and a stroke, resulting in massive brain damage; she was like a baby in a woman's body. Relentless tells a sto ...Show more