Acting and How to Survive It by Peter Feeney
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Everything You Wanted to Know about Acting but Were Too Afraid to Ask... The first-ever book published in New Zealand about acting technique, 'Acting and How to Survive it' also takes in surviving and thriving in this most challenging and alluring of vocations. Tailored to the New Zealand and Australian ...Show more
Anxious Autumn
$29.95 NZD
Category: Biography
On 25 March 2020 New Zealand went into lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19. For the next five weeks our ‘team of five million’ endured the unprecedented experience of being required to stay home to save lives. The lockdown was different for everyone – for some it was a reprieve fr ...Show more
You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956-1986 — Volume 2 by C.K. Stead
$10.00 NZD
$49.99 (80% off)
Category: Biography | Series: C. K. Stead Memoirs Ser. | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everyman - poet, novelist, critic, activist - C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study a ...Show more
Rust - One woman's story of finding hope across the divide by Eliese Goldbach
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$34.99 (71% off)
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
When Eliese Goldbach was nine years old, she decided to become a Catholic nun. Twenty years later, with a Master's degree, she found herself making steel in the Rust Belt during the 2016 US election season. A small part of her wondered if she'd got stuck inside a dream that had gone horribly wrong. Trum ...Show more
Unspeakable - The Autobiography by John Bercow
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$37.99 (73% off)
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Unspeakable is John Bercow's characteristically forthright and incisive account of his unique vantagepoint into British politics. Containing verdicts on many of the leading figures of this era, from Tony Blair to David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson, Bercow explores and explains the ways in whi ...Show more
Eat, Drink and Be Murray by Murray Thom
$10.00 NZD
$49.95 (79% off)
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Murray Thom is a completely self-made businessman who left school at 15 with his FSC (Failed School Certificate). Despite a lack of formal education, he was the Managing Director of CBS Records at just 23 years old. Since then, he has produced numerous bestsellers including, The Great New Zealand Songbo ...Show more
Little Soldiers : An American Boy, a Chinese School and the Global Race to Achieve by Lenora Chu
$10.00 NZD
$37.99 (73% off)
Category: Biography
'I couldn't put this book down. Whip smart, hilariously funny and shocking. A must-read'Amy Chua, Yale Law Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger MotherIn 2009, Lenora Chu, her husband Rob, and toddler Rainey, moved from LA to the Chinese megacity Shanghai. The US economy was spinning circles, ...Show more