Toy Fights: A Boyhood by Don Paterson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insanity of Dundee, sugar, religious mania, the sexual excesses of the Scottish club band scene and, more general ...Show more
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN. His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even o ...Show more
End Times by Rebecca Priestley
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
In the late 1980s, two teenage girls found refuge from a world of cosy conformity, sexism and the nuclear arms race in protest and punk. Then, drawn in by a promise of meaning and purpose, they cast off their punk outfits and became born-again Christians. Unsure which fate would come first - nuclear ann ...Show more
Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill: The Private and Personal Letters by All Sir Winston S.; Packwood Churchill
$43.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography | Series: Letters for the Ages Ser.
Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President ...Show more
The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carre was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait ...Show more
Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days by Victoria Bruce
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Hobbies
"I'm here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no matter what's happened to me, I'm not ready to lie down and die." In 2021, Victoria Bruce quit her corporate job, packed up her life and embarked on Te Araroa trail with her seven-year-old daughter, Emilie ...Show more
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
'Essential reading' Ai Weiwei' *** 'Deeply courageous' Philippe SandsA Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in historyIf you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, there's a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets, and one of on ...Show more
Charles III The Making of a King by Alison Smith (Text by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Charles III: The Making of a King celebrates the new King in the year of his coronation. The beautiful gift book includes a timeline of key events from Charles' life, and explores the future of the monarchy through photographs and paintings of the wider royal family, including Diana, Princess of Wales, ...Show more
Not Set in Stone by David Vass
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
$26.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, tea ...Show more
There's a Cure for This - A Memoir by Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
The striking debut memoir from award-winning doctor and writer, Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]. "I graduated as a doctor in 2020 and arrived into the Covid-19 pandemic with my ta moko on my arm, my hospital lanyard, my stethoscope and a purpose. I don't know why medicine felt like coming home. I had no ...Show more