Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang
$45.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Sixteenth-century Europe - Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the C ...Show more
Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' - a memoir about finding an identity, a voice and laughter. A funny, elegant, moving memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known authors, a woman who finally rebelled against being a handmaiden. By the time Barbara Else was ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more
The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again by Jim Davidson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 peopl ...Show more
Bushline - A Memoir by Robbie Burton
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Robbie Burton is a tramper, mountain-lover and book publisher, who has had a life-long infatuation with the wild places of New Zealand. In this memoir he recalls a childhood in which the natural world played a central part, and led to a youthful obsession with tramping, skiing and mountaineering. In hi ...Show more
Shackleton: How the Captain of the newly discovered Endurance saved his crew in the Antarctic by Ranulph Fiennes
$30.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
The enthralling life, endurance and incredible leadership of Sir Ernest Shackleton, told by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes.To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endu ...Show more
Sons of a Good Keen Man: Life in the shadow of Barry Crump by The Crump Brothers
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Barry Crump - the man, the myth, the father. 'Barry was never a father to me, but he did become a friend.'- Martin Crump Barry Crump was a titan of New Zealand writing, his semi-autobiographical novels about life as a rugged outdoorsman selling more than a million copies. In his time, he was held up a ...Show more
Traitor King - The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor by Andrew Lownie
$25.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
The explosive new book by the bestselling author of The Mountbattens.
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years by David Cannadine
$45.00 NZD
$55.00 (18% off)
Category: Sale Books (non-returnable)
This official souvenir publication celebrates the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-serving monarch. In February 2022, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will mark seventy years as monarch with a celebration known as the Platinum Jubilee. This official publication honors the Quee ...Show more
Churchill & Son by Josh Ireland
$28.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of life in the Churchill circle, much like Erik Larson did in The Splendid and the Vile."―Kirkus * "Fascinating... well-researched and well-written."--Andrew Ro ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
Grand: Becoming my mother's daughter by Noelle McCarthy
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
The astonishing debut memoir about mothers and daughters, drinking, birth and loss, running away and homecoming from prize-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy. "I'll be grand, girl, I've great faith." —Mammy, just before she died. Funny, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in p ...Show more