How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The first ever autobiography of John Cooper Clarke, the Bard of Salford, punk poet, rock star, fashion icon, national treasure and acerbic wit. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. At 5 feet 11 inche ...Show more
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a s ...Show more
In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die -- from starvation, or disease, or even execution.In Order to Live is the ...Show more
Into the Planet - My Life As a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth
$60.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
From one of the world's most renowned cave divers comes a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of the oceans and the sunken caves inside the planet.
Island Girl to Airline Pilot: A Story of Love, Sacrifice and Taking Flight by Silva Mcleod
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This is the life story of Silva Mcleod, the first Tongan woman to become an airline pilot. She's still one of only a handful. Told by Silva with frankness and wit, it's quite a story. Silva takes us on a journey of cultural change from her beginnings as a poor island girl to her marriage to an Australia ...Show more
I've Been Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
$65.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
One of philosophy's finest minds looks back over a life in thought 'Who would have guessed that a philosopher's life could be so full of adventures?' Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering consciousness. I've Been Thinking traces the development of Denne ...Show more
Kate - The Future Queen by Katie Nicholl
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
From the bestselling author of William and Harry and renowned Royal Family news correspondent Katie Nicholl, comes the first in-depth biography of Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge. Katie Nicholl, bestselling author and royal correspondent for The Mail on Sunday, gives an inside look into the life o ...Show more
Kiss Myself Goodbye - The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount
$43.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
From the bestselling author of the memoir Cold Cream comes this affectionate, bizarre, tragi-comical tale of Ferdinand Mount's Aunt Munca. Munca--named after the mouse in the Beatrix Potter stories--never told the truth about anything. She was already a figure of mystery during her nephew Ferdinand ...Show more
Kubrick - An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker; Nathan Abrams
$75.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The most comprehensive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odessey, The Shining and A Clockwork Orange.
Life as a Novel - A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt Volume One 1932 - 1973 by Philip Temple
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Maurice Shadbolt believed that New Zealanders should tell their own stories, cherish their own myths and believe in their own big lies before they could stand upright in a post-colonial world. Through his fiction, non-fiction and international journalism, he played a leading role in projecting New Zeala ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$22.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more