Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Donna ...Show more
Warrior - Audrey Hepburn by Robert Matzen; Luca Dotti (Foreword by)
$59.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Warrior: Audrey Hepburn completes the story arc of Robert Matzen's Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II. Hepburn's experiences in wartime, including the murder of family members, her survival through combat and starvation conditions, and work on behalf of the Dutch Resistance, gave her the determ ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Norman - New Zealand's Lost Leader by Denis Welch
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Norman Kirk was Prime Minister for only 90 weeks but in the early 1970s he inspired us by leading a visionary government with a clear moral purpose. His work also defined New Zealand as a progressive small state with a deep internationalism which became central to our national identity. When he died, we ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong by Mark Galeotti
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Meet the world's most dangerous man.Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next? Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's most powerful politicians, whose influence spans the globe and whose netwo ...Show more
Whatever Next? Lessons from an Unexpected Life by Anne Glenconner
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Bracing honesty, rare insight, and hilarious revelations from the author of the smash-hit New York Times bestselling memoir Lady in Waiting as she shares everything she's learned from her extraordinary and unexpected life. Lady in Waiting brought us royal magic, beguiling insight, and jaw-dropping stori ...Show more
Who I Am by Melanie C
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, tells her life story in her own words and gives a full and honest account of what life was really like in The Spice Girls. For the first time ever, Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, tells her amazing life story in her own words and gives a full and honest account of what life was ...Show more
Why Patti Smith Matters by Caryn Rose
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found--what she fostered--was a cultural revolution. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic vocal power, and her very presence as a woman fronting a rock band, she kicked open a door t ...Show more
Why We Sing - A memoir about the power of singing to make connections, to heal and expand our lives by Julia Hollander
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A memoir celebrating the power of song to lift our mood and restore our sense of connection to other people and the world. Singing makes you feel good. Everyone who sings in a community choir or just in the shower knows this, and relishes the sense of liberation, connection and sheer joy that singing ca ...Show more
Will by Will Smith, Mark Manson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of o ...Show more
Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain's Greatest Pilot by Paul Beaver
$80.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Pre-order the extraordinary life storyof Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - aviator, record-breaker, and Britain's greatest pilot.
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy : Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 by Nicholas Reynolds
$54.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: General Adult
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "riveting"* international cloak-and-dagger epic, here is the stunning untold story of Ernest Hemingway's danger ous secret life -- including his role as a Soviet agent code-named "Argo" -- that fueled his art and his undoing.In 2010, while he was the historian at the este ...Show more
You Probably Think This Song Is About You by Kate Camp
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win. ‘Never apo ...Show more