Stronger by Jeff Bauman
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing he did was try to speak. When he realized he couldn't, he asked for a pad and paper and wrote down seven words: "Saw the guy. Looked righ ...Show more
Cicero - The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "An excellent introduction to a critical period in the history of Rome. Cicero comes across much as he must have lived: reflective, charming and rather vain."--The Wall Street Journal "All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined."--John Adam ...Show more
The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's greatest explorer by Peter FitzSimons
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The extraordinary, must-read story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist, photographer, war hero, aviator, spy and daredevil - brought to life by one of Australia's greatest storytellers. Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who eve ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
"An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way."--Vogue A lush exploration of roses, pleasure, and politics, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an ...Show more
Bush School by Peter O'Brien
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A charming story of a time long-gone and the struggles of a young man with his first teaching assignment in a village at the back of beyond. There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang e ...Show more
Five Straight Lines: A History of Music by Andrew Gant
$70.00 NZD
Category: Music
Whether you prefer Baroque or pop, Theremins or violins, the music you love and listen to shapes your world. But what shaped the music? Ranging across time and space, this book takes us on a grand musical tour from music's origins in prehistory right up to the twenty-first century. Charting the leaps in ...Show more
Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The first major biography of the pathbreaking, perpetually influential surrealist artist and iconoclast whose inspiration can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé--by the celebrated biographer of Cézanne and Braque In this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898‒1967), Alex Danchev ma ...Show more
You've Got To Be Kidding: a shedload of wine & a farm full of goats by Todd Alexander
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The steep-climb highs and free-fall lows of my rollercoaster rural life They say it takes 10,000 hours to master a new skill. Well, seven years (60,000 hours) since former city boys Todd and Jeff moved to the country they should have nailed this whole farming gig, right? Yes, they make lovely wine and ...Show more
Fox & I: an uncommon friendship by Catherine Raven
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A solitary woman's inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative power of her unusual friendship with a wild fox. Catherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive father and an indifferent mother. Drawn to the natural world, she worked as a ranger in national parks, a ...Show more
The Contrarian - Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business and politics Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater global impact than S ...Show more
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone - The Biography of Nico by Jennifer Otter-Bickerdike
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'What I have in common with Nico is the understanding of her furious frustration at not being recognised.' - Marianne Faithfull Over the course of her life, Nico was an ever-evolving myth, an enigma that escaped definition. Though she is remembered for contributions to The Velvet Underground & Nico, ...Show more
The Wild Twins: Tales of Strength and Survival by Amber Shine; Serena Shine
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Twin hunters Amber and Serena Shine on strength, survival and a lifetime seeking adventure The impala was past the barrier of branches and there was only a metre to go before it got to the water's edge. It had to be over 35 metres away, but we were desperate. Amber whispered, 'Hold it . . . hold it . ...Show more