Evolving: Finding Health and Happiness as We Age by Judy Bailey
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An inspiring and personal guide to ageing well and with happiness, by national treasure Judy Bailey. When beloved broadcaster Judy Bailey signed off her final news bulletin in 2005, she had no idea that retirement would bring some of the most fulfilling years of her life. Ever the journalist, Judy sea ...Show more
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life. From Bletchley Park cod ...Show more
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy'Engrossing... Moorehead has a spirited turn of phrase, a keen eye for the telling detail and pungent quote, and a gift for marshaling complex material' Jenny Uglo ...Show more
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti by Cosey Fanni Tutti
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography
From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionary artists. 'A fascinating tale of the interlinking lives of three legendary trailblazers.' SALENA GODDEN ... 'Re-sisters emanate ...Show more
After the Tampa by Abbas Nazari
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere. The family's desperate search for safety took them on a harrowing journey from the mountains of A ...Show more
Anansi's Gold - The Man Who Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Fabulously entertaining' Daily Telegraph 'Thrilling . . . Yeebo tells the jaw-dropping story of [Ghanaian con artist Blay-Miezah] . . . meticulously researched' Guardian'Perfect for fans of Frank Abignale Jr.'s Catch Me If You Can' Publishers WeeklyThe astounding, never-before-told story of how an inge ...Show more
Stay True: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir by Hua Hsu
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, TIME, Rolling Stone 'One of the best nonfiction books about friendship ever, right up there with Patti Smith’s Just Kids’ – The Atlantic When Hua Hsu first meets Ken in a Berkele ...Show more
The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-ac ...Show more
Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan by Bariz Shah
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
What does it take to find hope in dark places and change the course of your life? When Bariz Shah's family immigrated to New Zealand, they couldn't have predicted that everything would change after 9/11. Still only a child, Bariz became the target of racist abuse and bullying, and responded the only way ...Show more
Will by Mark Will Smith Manson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The 'Event' Autobiography of the Year now out in paperback - a brave, inspiring and wildly entertaining memoir full of self-help lessons for readers, from one of the world's most charismatic and much-loved actors The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller PRAISE FOR WIL ...Show more
Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine by DAVIDSON MARK & FISCHEL PARKER
$175.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine is the landmark magnum opus every Bob Dylan fan has been waiting for since the 60s: lavishly illustrated with hundreds of previously unseen photographs and spanning from Dylan's childhood in Hibbing, Minnesota, to the Nobel Prize for Literature and beyond, this is a tre ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more