All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A Guardian book of the yearA Times book of the yearA Spectator book of the yearA Daily Mail book of the yearAn Evening Standard book of the yearA Stella Magazine book of the year From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kit ...Show more
Celebration of the Straw Man by Murray Rodgers
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A sensitive and evocative account of the life of a New Zealand World War Two artillery soldier that gives insight into New Zealand's rural culture from the pre-depression years, the impact of war on a family through generations, and the magic of companionship in the New Zealand backcountry. The story is ...Show more
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography by Billy Connolly
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life i ...Show more
Ruby Tui - Straight Up by Ruby Tui
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: good-very good
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood yearning for a better option in life to Olympic Champion and the world's best rugby sevens player. Ruby learned to rely on herself and her own strengths as a child, growing up without role models, in ...Show more
Owning It: The Ride that Changed my Life by Brad Smeele
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Deeply thoughtful, honest and riveting story of a high-achieving sportsman who became a quadriplegic. Brad Smeele's thrill-seeking, fast-paced life as a professional wakeboarder came to an abrupt halt eight years ago when an accident caused him to become a quadriplegic. Wakeboarding is like waterskiing ...Show more
I Saw a Beautiful Woodpecker by Michal Skibinski; Ala Bankroft (Illustrator); Eliza Marciniak (Translator)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography
This award-winning children's book is one eight-year-old Polish boy's evocative diary of the summer of 1939 when World War Two was tragically approaching his country. It is the summer of 1939 in Warsaw, Poland and Michal is an eight- year-old boy just finishing his school year. In order to improve h ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
$38.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
Grand: Becoming my mother's daughter by Noelle McCarthy
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The astonishing debut memoir about mothers and daughters, drinking, birth and loss, running away and homecoming from prize-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy. "I'll be grand, girl, I've great faith." —Mammy, just before she died. Funny, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in p ...Show more
My French Platter Replenished by Annemarie RAWSON
$31.95 NZD
Category: Biography
When Annemarie and Steve are unceremoniously sacked by a belligerent boss, they're forced to find a new home and work. As they take on the management of their new employers' majestic house, will the opportunities to create luscious food for guests and family and explore rural France enable them to creat ...Show more
The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel
$10.00 NZD
$37.99 (73% off)
Category: Biography
Phillip Maisel OAM was born in August 1922, in Vilna, Lithuania. When the Germans arrived in Vilna in 1941, Phillip's life changed dramatically. He survived two years in a squalid, overcrowded Jewish ghetto, before enduring multiple Nazi labour and concentration camps. Phillip was liberated in 1945 whil ...Show more
My French Platter by Annemarie Rawson
$31.95 NZD
Category: Biography
When Annemarie and her husband Steve, leave their life in New Zealand to manage a 15th-century farmhouse in France, they have no idea they’ll end up homeless. No idea they’ll need to live in filth, rely on dilapidated equipment and deal with a belligerent boss. Will the mouth-watering food she creates, ...Show more