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A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane by Samanth Subramanian
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The bold and brilliant biography of maverick British scientist J.B.S. Haldane, one of the twentieth-century's greatest thinkers, by an award-wining author.
Like Father Like Son by Michael Parkinson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father John William was, and remains, a family love stor ...Show more
Ralph Hotere- The Dark is Light Enough: A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O'Sullivan
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life. Ralph Hotere (Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa; 1931-2013) was one of Aotearoa's most significant modern artists. Hotere invited the poet, novelist and biographer Vincent O'Sullivan ...Show more
A Promised Land: The Presidential Memoirs (Vol 1. HB) by Barack Obama
$70.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Sir Bob Charles - The Biography by Geoff Saunders
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
**For Booktrade purchases only** 'Sir Bob Charles – The Biography’ is the first comprehensive biography of Sir Bob Charles. His story begins in working-class rural New Zealand. In 1960 he embarked upon a career that no New Zealander had chosen before – that of a full-time touring professional golfer. Th ...Show more
I'm Ralph, I'm Dad by Dr Glennis Mafi
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Ralph Wood was diagnosed with dementia, and over the ensuing years his daughter, a medical doctor, along with other close family members, walked that journey beside him. Through poems, drawings and brief comments, I'm Ralph, I'm Dad lovingly tells the story. Though this is a personal account, it is a jo ...Show more
From A Dark Cave To New Zealand by Mustafa Darbandi
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Hiding in a tiny dark cave in the border triangle between Iraq, Iran and Turkey, Mustafa Darbandi is facing his fear that he may not survive. On the run because of his membership of a banned Kurdish freedom movement, he has begun an extraordinary journey. It will take him from Iraq to Turkey to Iran to ...Show more
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Helen Garner's second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the bombshell that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in l ...Show more
Olive, Mabel and Me by Andrew Cotter
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
My name is Andrew Cotter and once upon a time I was a sports broadcaster. In Olive, Mabel and Me I try to explain how it can be that after a career commentating on Olympic Games, World Cups and Wimbledon finals, I am now far better known for describing the daily lives of my Labradors, Olive and Mabel. O ...Show more
English Pastoral by James Rebanks
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The author of the beloved No.1 bestseller The Shepherd's Life returns with a stirring history of family, loss and the land over three generations on a Lake District farm 'A beautifully-written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape.' - Nigel Slater 'Just about perfect.' - Wendell Berry James ...Show more
Lioness by Sue Brierley
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Saroo Brierley's journey home to a small village in India with the help of Google Earth became an internationally bestselling book and inspired the major motion picture LION. But the story of how his adoptive mother, Sue, came into his life half a world away in Tasmania is every bit as riveting. In this ...Show more
Can You Make This Thing Go Faster? by Jeremy Clarkson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Clarkson returns to set our off-kilter world to rights yet again, in a brand new, hilarious collection of stories and observations. From smug muesli-munchers to the dreariest parts of London, there has been plenty of reason to abandon all hope in these deeply troubling times. But with Clarkson in your ...Show more