First Man: the Life of Neil Armstrong by James Hansen
$34.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America's most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong - the man whose "one small step" changed history.In First Man, Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over 50 hours of interviews ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$40.00 NZD
Category: References & Language
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Murray Ball: A Cartoonist's Life by Mason Ball
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
The first biography of iconic cartoonist Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats Let me show you how my dad became a leading cartoonist of his generation, how his endearing characters evolved and where the side-splitting ideas sprang from. Let's see the man behind the drawing desk and delve into the wor ...Show more
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals Observations from a Family Farm by Rosamund Young
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Be transported to the wild meadows of Kite's Nest Farm and peek into the surprising private lives of some of our most familiar of animals. A life-enhancing read from the author of the bestselling gem The Secret Life of Cows. We talk about people behaving like sheep, which assumes that sheep all behave ...Show more
The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s Most Infamous Cold Case by Kirsty Johnston, James Hollings
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
The unsolved mystery of who killed Jeanette and Harvey Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 continues to fascinate. It remains one of the most controversial cases in New Zealand legal history. The murders spawned two trials, two appeals, several books, a royal commission, a film, and - eventually - ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Norman - New Zealand's Lost Leader by Denis Welch
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
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
The Twat Files: A hilarious sort-of memoir of mistakes, mishaps and mess-ups by Dawn French
$42.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last sixty years. Nincompoop. Nitwit. Lunatic. Dork. All lovely . . . but . . . nah . . . I prefer Twat. It's neat and it's accurate somehow. Because, yes, I am a Twat . . . sometimes. Aren't we all? THE TWAT ...Show more
Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Berserk: out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied. Berserkers: an elite Norse fighting corp who, apparently off their tits on hallucinogenic drugs, fought with a particular fury and senseless abandon still present in many Scandinavian heavy metal groups. Ade Edmondson smashed onto the ...Show more
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