The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her own family (regarded as a black sheep, a wild child; someone they were better off without) in the meantime Leonora C ...Show more
The Sweetness of Life by Francoise Heritier
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
If you assume an average life expectancy of 85 years, and deduct the hours we spend daily on sleeping, shopping, eating, working, tending to our relationships and on everything else that is obligatory, then how much time is left for the average person to enjoy those activities that are the sweetness of ...Show more
The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner by John Keay
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2017, The bestselling author of India: A History takes readers on a quest from the American West to the Asian East to unravel the greatest enigma in the history of travel. Book jacket.
The Testimony by Halina Wagowska
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'These short stories are autobiographical but I am not their main subject. Some pay homage to remarkable people I have known and loved. Some describe unusual places and events and are a kind of testimony.'But, contrary to what Halina says, none are 'commonplace' - whether her stories tell of the gentile ...Show more
The "Times" Great Victorian Lives: an era in obituaries by Ian Brunskill
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Obituaries of the most influential Victorians as profiled by The Times, including Dickens, Darwin, Ruskin, Peel, WG Grace and Florence Nightingale. For over 150 years, The Times obituaries have been providing the most respected and perceptive verdicts on the lives of the great and the good. Scientists, ...Show more
The Tour According to G by Geraint Thomas
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike race in the world: twice an Olympic gold medallist on the track, Commonwealth champion, yet at the Tour de France a victim of crashes, bad luck and his willingness to sacrifice himself for his team-mates. ...Show more
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife ... But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clie ...Show more
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White
$55.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon: what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. The book's twelve chapters illuminate different aspects of Hitchcock's life ...Show more
The Two Popes by Anthony McCarten
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
On 28 February 2013, a 600-year-old tradition was shattered- Pope Benedict XVI made a startling announcement. He would resign.This story begins with the death of John Paul, through Benedict's election and reign - taking in the controversies that blighted the world's largest church - to his subsequent an ...Show more
The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice by Judith Mackrell
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Veniers waned during construction and the project was abandoned. Empty, unfinished, and decaying, the building was considered an eyesore until the early twentie ...Show more
The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
$34.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
"Dina Nayeri's powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees In her first work of nonfiction, Dina Nayeri raises surprising and provocative questions, recalibrating the conversation aroun ...Show more
The Unmapped Mind - A Memoir of Neurology, Incurable Disease and Learning How to Live by Christian Donlan
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'Remarkable and revelatory, a dazzling achievement. Quietly electrifying' Sunday Times On the day his daughter takes her first steps Christian Donlan discovers he has an incurable neurological disease, multiple sclerosis. As his young daughter starts to investigate the world around her, he too finds him ...Show more