The Accidental Duchess - From Farmer's Daughter to Belvoir Castle by Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Life in a castle isn't always a fairytale, as the Duchess of Rutland reveals in her charming, funny and eye-opening autobiography.Never in her wildest dreams did Emma Watkins, a Welsh farmer's daughter, imagine she would marry into the aristocracy but then she fell in love with David Manners, heir to th ...Show more
Running up that Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush by Tom Doyle
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A mosaic biography featuring snapshots, stories, episodes, interviews and insights that will lift the curtain on the real Kate Bush. Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most idiosyncratic musicians of the modern era. Comprising fifty chapters or 'visions', Running Up That Hill is a ...Show more
A Book of Days by Patti Smith
$44.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular Instagram. In 2018, without any plan or agenda for ...Show more
Bibi: My Story by Benjamin Netanyahu
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's sweeping, moving autobiography, one of the most formidable and insightful leaders of our time tells the story of his family, his path to leadership, and his unceasing commitment to defending Israel and securing its future. From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit ...Show more
Vital Signs: Heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious stories from a junior doctor's first year by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
An insight into what it's like to be a first year junior doctor - the ups and downs, the drama and how terrifying it is to finally be making decisions.
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave's inner life. Created from over forty hours of intimate conversations with Sean O'Hagan, it is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave's own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of faith, art, music, fr ...Show more
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty by Natalie Livingstone
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In The Women of Rothschild, Natalie Livingstone reveals the role of women in shaping the legacy of the famous Rothschild dynasty, synonymous with wealth and power. From the East End of London to the Eastern seaboard of the United States, from Spitalfields to Scottish castles, from Bletchley Park to ...Show more
The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner: A memoir HB by Grace Tame
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertainty - by trauma and strength, sadness and hope, terrible lows and wondrous highs. As a teenager she found the courage to speak up after experiencing awful and ongoing child sexual abuse. This fight to find he ...Show more
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts. When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on hi ...Show more
Landlines by Raynor Winn
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCE Global bestselling author Raynor Winn returns with her third and most ambitious memoir, a chronicle of her journey across Great Britain. As the fracture lines between nations grow wider, how do we relate to each other, and t ...Show more
A Lion Called Christian by Anthony Bourke
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In 2008, a YouTube clip became an internet phenomenon. It showed the emotional reunion of two young men and their pet lion, Christian, after they had left him in Africa to be introduced into his rightful home in the wild. Anthony 'Ace' Bourke and John Rendall visited London from Australia in 1969 and bo ...Show more