And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'Magnificent.' Rachel Clarke 'A book to treasure and reread; I'm very grateful for it.' Gavin Francis As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to m ...Show more
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The powerful, inspiring follow-up to the critically acclaimed, multi-million #1 bestselling memoir Becoming In The Light We Carry, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. She considers the ques ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more
Blood and Bone: Revelations of an orthopaedic surgeon by Russell Tregonning
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Russell Tregonning finished his fifty-year career in medicine as one of New Zealand's leading orthopaedic surgeons and as a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Otago School of Medicine. This memoir takes the reader through his journey from medical student to orthopaedic surgeon - from introducing pioneering ...Show more
Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop by Alba Donati
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Alba Donati's Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop is not only a work of significant beauty, it's inspiring. It's inspiring about the continuing life of books, and about the ways in which our lives can change and our dreams can come true, if only we insist on believing in changes and dreams' Michael Cunningham, ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights.Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly ...Show more
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour
$62.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Brilliantly written, compulsively readable and insightful' Pat Barker, author of The Silence of the Girls 'A first-class life and a rollicking read ... Close to a masterpiece' Sunday Times An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. An ...Show more
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family by Robert K. Massie
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs - Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra. Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter the Great, in this commanding book Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of imperial Russia to tell the ...Show more
Yes, Minister: An Insider's Account of the John Key years by Chris Finlayson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An insightful and entertaining glimpse into what really made the John Key government one of the most successful conservative governments New Zealand has ever seen.
Things I remember, or was told by Carol Shand
$40.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
Things I remember, or was told, is the memoir of outspoken Wellington GP Carol Shand, who since the early 1960s has spent her life fighting for change in medical, social and legal issues that she considered important: maternity care, access to contraception, abortion law change, and improved response to ...Show more
Gather Together In My Name by Maya Angelou
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In the sequel to her best- ...Show more