Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A massive, predatory bird and its place in history and myth. The legend of Pouakai, aka the extinct Haast's Eagle, takes Peter Walker on a journey from an 1860s Canterbury sheep run to a deep cave near Karamea as he learns the story of the mighty hunter that inhabited a peak in the foothills of the Sout ...Show more
Learning To Be French (and Failing) - A New Zealander, a Tiny Village & an Ancient Stone House by Anna Bibby
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
What happens when an art gallery owner from New Zealand buys a dilapidated French house on a whim? Anna Bibby owned a successful art gallery in New Zealand until one day, on holiday in France, she bought a falling-down house in a picturesque medieval village. So began the process of renovating her beaut ...Show more
Musician or Machine Gunner - Based on the Diary My Father Kept of His Overseas Service During the Great War 1918-1919 by Philip Raymond Poole
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The author’s father Philip Alfred Poole was the youngest son of English migrants from Shropshire who settled in Invercargill during the 1890s gold rush and established a successful family joinery business. A keen sportsman and a talented amateur musician, he was conscripted into the New Zealand army in ...Show more
Not Set in Stone by David Vass
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Between the 1980s and 2015, Dave Vass became one of New Zealand's leading mountaineers. In 'Not Set in Stone' he recounts the beginning of his outdoor life caving and rafting, before turning to climbing, first around Arthur's Pass, and then at Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park. A move to Wanaka saw him ...Show more
Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Join us on another unforgettable adventure through the extraordinary life and strong opinions of Miriam Margolyes. 'My new book is called Oh Miriam! - something that has been said to me a lot over the years, often in tones of strong disapproval. It contains lots more revelations and stories and discove ...Show more
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Welcome to Sotheran's, the oldest, most bonkers bookshop in the country, with its bizarre clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabelled keys, poisoned books, some things that aren't even books, and deeply eccentric staff. Think Diary of a Bookseller but with quite a lot more Bernard Black.Some years ago, ...Show more
Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time an ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we should care. Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our televisi ...Show more
After the Tampa by Abbas Nazari
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere. The family's desperate search for safety took them on a harrowing journey from the mountains of A ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL'Janet Frame is the greatest Ne ...Show more
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger
$42.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof. The seven rules to follow to realise your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, a ...Show more
Bookshop Dogs by Ruth Shaw
$38.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many have great stories, be they funny, sad, strange, bemusing, quirky or sweet. Woven throughout are tales of the very special Hun ...Show more