The Jane Austen Remedy by Ruth Wilson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re-reading each of Jane Austen's novels.
So Far, For Now by Fiona Kidman
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Evocative, wry and thought-provoking, this is a rewarding journey with one of our finest writers. It is a little over a decade since Fiona Kidman wrote her last volume of memoir. But her story did not end on its last page; instead her life since has been busier than ever, filled with significant changes ...Show more
I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary story of a Palestinian doctor who, despite witnessing the death of three of his daughters in the Israeli incursion into Gaza in January 2009, continued his medical and humanitarian work aimed at bringing the people of the region together in peace.
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey Of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the remarkable rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the world. The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider – a research chemist an ...Show more
After the Tampa - From Afghanistan to New Zealand by Abbas Nazari
$38.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The heart-rending story of a seven-year-old 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere. Escaping from Taliban persecution in Afghanistan, Abbas Nazari's parents fled the country in 2001 to find a safe place in which to bring up ...Show more
Bear Grylls - Never Give Up: A Life of Adventure, The New Autobiography by Bear Grylls
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary new autobiography from adventurer Bear Grylls. The sequel to the multi-million copy selling global phenomenon Mud, Sweat and Tears. The extraordinary new autobiography from adventurer Bear Grylls. In Never Give Up, global adventurer and TV presenter Bear Grylls chronicles his life an ...Show more
Square Haunting - Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE * LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * "A beautiful and deeply moving book."--Sally Rooney, author of Normal People An engrossing group portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London's Mecklenburgh Square in search of new freedom in t ...Show more
Red Roulette - An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Red Notice comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith of power and money in 21st century China and whose wife was disappeared - and then mysteriously rea ...Show more
Things I Learned at Art School by Megan Dunn
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
From the writer who brought you Tinderbox, a book about a woman trying to write a book, comes Things I Learned at Art School, a memoir by a woman who has never kept a diary. Until now. Part memoir, part essay collection, Megan Dunn’s ingenious, moving, hilariously personal Things I Learned at Art School ...Show more
This Is Not A Pipe by Tara Black
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography
I've decided to document my life in pictures. It's hard to draw the pole, because of the pole. Beth has a pole through her arms. This is not a metaphor. A metaphor would be a lot less inconvenient. On the other side of the room, Kenneth is creating a new religion. He thinks narrative is the operating pr ...Show more
Coming Undone - A Memoir by Terri White
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'BREATHTAKING' Dolly Alderton, 'REMARKABLE' Marian Keyes, 'LIFE-CHANGING' Emma Jane Unsworth, 'COMPELLING' Amy Liptrot, 'EXTRAORDINARY' Sali Hughes An investigation into the elements of looking - combining art and science and painting a portrait of our culture - by a critically-acclaimed Scottish write ...Show more
Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail: The Diary of a Country Vet by Danielle Hawkins
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail is the funny, illuminating diary of a year in the life of a New Zealand farm vet. With a husband and two children, 1200 sheep and 400 cattle, farm dogs and pet lambs, pigs bent on excavation and a goat bent on escape, country life is never dull. From calving cows to constipa ...Show more