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Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Linda Collins gets up on a Monday morning, dresses for work, makes coffee and goes into her daughter Victoria’s bedroom. Why hasn’t Vicky got up yet? It’s an important day: the start of the second term of her final year at school. Today she will hear her latest exam results. The bedroom is empty. So beg ...Show more
Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A deeply beautiful, profound, profane and poetic biography of the early formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is th ...Show more
Joe Biden - American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
$43.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest - fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White H ...Show more
Sontag - Her Life by Benjamin Moser
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - a ...Show more
Summer (Seasons Quartet 4) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser.
Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer. Your voice woke me up around eight this morning, it sounded unusually close, since, as I discovered upon opening my eyes, you ...Show more
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
$37.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing. Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries abo ...Show more
Zen Heart: What I've Learned from Animals and Life by Mark Vette
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A cheeky baboon, a cockatoo sending a heading dog out to round up sheep, a family of pukekos crossing the road, a dog saying 'bugger', an octopus taking a photo. Think of an ad you love, or a New Zealand-made movie, and if it has an animal in it chances are Mark Vette was behind it. He's trained almost ...Show more
Shoemaker - Reebok and the Untold Story of a Lancashire Family Who Changed the World by Joe Foster
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The remarkable story of how Joe Foster developed Reebok into one of the world's most famous sports brands, having started from a small factory in Bolton. Since the late 19th century, the Foster family had been hand-making running shoes, supplying the likes of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams - later im ...Show more
Perfection: The Life and Times of Sir William Manchester by Earle Brown
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From country boy to internationally renowned plastic surgeon, from junior medical officer to Lieutenant Colonel in just four years, "Perfection: the life and times of Sir William Manchester" covers a life of achievement and service. Hailing from small beginnings in rural Waimate, William Manchester beca ...Show more
An Angel at My Table by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century ... A journey from luminous childhood, through the dark experiences of supposed madness, to the renewal of her life through writing fiction. It is a heroic story, and told with such engaging tone, humorous perspective and imaginative power' Micha ...Show more
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know by Ranulph Fiennes
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'Always the leader and always the best' Bear Grylls 'Fiennes has so much to fit in, it's a wonder to grasp the full breadth of a lifetime of adventuring' - Compass Magazine 'Even readers with a broadly low tolerance for macho heroism will find themselves gripped . . . compelling' - Time Out Sir Ranul ...Show more