The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story by Hanan Al-Shaykh
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
New York, 2001 As Hanan al-Shaykh travels through the streets of Manhattan to her daughter's wedding her mind is elsewhere. Remembering own secret ceremony some thirty years ago, her thoughts turn to her mother, Kamila, who was sacrificed into marriage: her absent mother who, in recent, reconciled year ...Show more
The Lone Ranger Story : From Salvage Tug to Superyacht by John Julian
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Lone Ranger worked as a salvage tug (then named Simson) and towed some of the largest oil installations ever built during twenty of the most challenging years in the history of the business. During the mid-1990s she embarked on a second career and has become the world's pre-eminent exploration yacht. As ...Show more
The Lonely Sea by Yvette Allum
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This is the extraordinary true adventure story of how Sue Dockar survived for two days and two nights lost alone at sea after being swept away during a spearfishing contest in the shark-infested waters off the Queensland coast. The Lonely Sea shows how a series of small and individually avoidable errors ...Show more
The Longest Day: Standing up to Depression and Tackling the Coast to Coast by Matt Calman
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
What do you do when you reach rock bottom? Matt Calman's most consistent tool for dealing with problems throughout his life was alcohol. But it got to the stage where he was no longer willing to put up with the dark side of his drinking. So he quit. But the problems that had been simmering away for most ...Show more
The Longest Trip Home : A Memoir by John Grogan
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In this book, John writes with honesty, openness and humour about relationship between a boy and his parents. As a 'bad' boy in a good family, John didn't always live up to his parents expectations, but as a man he came to understand the love they gave him every day of his life.
The Lost Boy: Tales of a Child Soldier by Ayik Chut Deng
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
In episode 1 of the Ray Martin fronted SBS series Look me in the eye two South Sudanese migrants now resident in Brisbane sat across from each other and looked into each other's eyes. One of them, Ayik, was once a ten-year-old boy soldier training in the junior forces of the SPLA and like many of the yo ...Show more
The Lost Executioner : A story of the Khmer Rouge by Nic Dunlop
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A real-life detective story, tracking down the man responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the killing fieldsIn Cambodia, between 1975 and 1979, nearly two million people died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. As head of the Khmer Rouge secret police, Comrade Duch was responsible for the murder o ...Show more
The Lost German Slave Girl by John Bailey
$27.90 NZD
Category: General Biography
One spring morning in New Orleans, in 1843, a middle-aged German immigrant was walking through the city's Spanish Quarter when she came across a woman she recognized, a beautiful young German who had disappeared over 20 years before as a young child. Yet the woman in front of her was a slave, with no me ...Show more
The Lost Imperialist Lord Dufferin Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity by Andrew Gailey
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering career which few could equal. As Viceroy of India and Governor-General of Canada, he held the two most exalted positions available under the Crown, but prior to this his achievements as a British ambassador includ ...Show more
The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we've never seen her before. In The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates vividly recreates the early years of her life in western New York state, powerfully evoking the romance of childhood and the way it co ...Show more
The Lost Life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
How did a 19 year-old, middle-class, Catholic girl from Munich become Hitler's mistress and what kept him faithful until the end of their lives? Was her appeal sexual, domestic, political - or did he really love her? This biography of Eva Braun is the first in English for 40 years. Angela Lambert has du ...Show more