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Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The inspiration for the film Nomadland starring Frances McDormand.
Fracture: Trauma, Success and the Origins of Greatness by Matthew Parris
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Matthew Parris, presenter of Great Lives on BBC Radio 4, explores the surprising connection between trauma and greatness through vivid case histories. Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that sti ...Show more
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity by Nadia Owusu
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
An exceptional memoir about race, family and belonging for a moment when identity and division dominate our global politics I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation. When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her bab ...Show more
Where There's a Will - Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent by Emily Chappell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A London cycle courier with a taste for adventure, Emily Chappell entered an extraordinary new race - The Transcontinental - in which riders must find their own way, entirely unassisted, across Europe in the shortest time possible. On her second attempt, she won the women's event, covering nearly 4,000 ...Show more
How to Walk a Dog (PB) by Mike White; Sharon Murdoch (Illustrator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The highs and lows, joy and heartache of owning a dog are told in this beautifully written story of life in and around a dog park. 'The book of the year. THE book on dogs. And people.' Andrew Dickens, Newstalk ZB
Mary's Last Dance by Mary Li
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'I can vividly remember the last steps of the last ballet, walking off the stage led by a mother and knowing the decision I had to make. That was my last dance.' Mary Li (nee McKendry) is an international ballet star and a mother like no other. She became a household name when her husband Li Cunxin publ ...Show more
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.
Bosie - A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Lord Alfred Douglas, known as 'Bosie', son of the Marquess of Queensberry, was known as one of the most beautiful young men of his generation. Aged twenty-one he met and became the lover and subsequent obsession of Oscar Wilde. Their relationship caused a scandal in 1895 when Wilde took Queensberry, Do ...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'Sulliva ...Show more
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography: Volume Three: Herself Alone by Charles Moore
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times) A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR How did ...Show more
Marilyn Monroe: the Last Interview - And Other Conversations by Melville MELVILLE HOUSE (Series edited by); Sady Doyle (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
During her short life, Marilyn Monroe was globally revered as the sex symbol of the 1950s and 60s, and the originator of "bombshell blonde" image. Today we understand her better as someone keenly self-aware of the artiface involved in playing that part, and as a world-class actor poised to break out of ...Show more