Cult Following - My Escape and Return to the Children of God by Bexy Cameron
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Can you ever escape your childhood?
Women of the Catlins: Life in the Deep South by Diana Noonan
$49.95 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A haunting, off-the-beaten-track destination, the little-known Catlins region of New Zealand is as mysterious today as it ever was. In this first in-depth look at the lives of its inhabitants, award-winning writer Diana Noonan and photographer Cris Antona collaborate to capture the thoughts and feelings ...Show more
Come Back to Mona Vale - Life and death in a Christchurch Mansion by Alexander McKinnon
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Come Back to Mona Vale is a beautifully written, compelling narrative/memoir that sets about unravelling the mysteries and anomalies behind the public history of a wealthy Christchurch business family in the first half of the 20th century. The author-as narrator gradually becomes aware that his family h ...Show more
Imposter - On Booze, Crippling Self-Doubt and Coming Out the Other Side by Matt Chisholm
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'A book of great openness and courage' - Sir John Kirwan Country boy and television host Matt Chisholm seemed to have it all. With a plum job on TV and a great family, his future looked bright.? But behind the happy facade, Matt was barely coping, driving himself into the ground with work and withdrawi ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields - War Through the Lives of Women by Christina Lamb
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 'A wake-up call ... These women's stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.' Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the fi ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A major new book from one of the world's leading writers and art critics John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated art writers, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In Portraits, Berger grounds the artists in the ...Show more
The Farmer's Lawyer - The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm by Sarah Vogel
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Sarah's story, told in her unique voice, inspires me--and I'm sure it will inspire you--to fight for family farmers. --Willie Nelson An exquisitely written American saga. --Sarah Smarsh Remarkably well told and heartfelt. --John Grisham The unforgettable true story of a young lawyer's impossible legal ...Show more
Mozart by Jan Swafford
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.From his earliest years it was apparent that the singular imagination of Wolfgang Mozart was tirelessly at work. He hated to be bored and hate ...Show more
The Big Goodbye by Sam Wasson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Sight & Sound's #1 Film Book of 2020 Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the definin ...Show more
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto Che Guervara
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Che Guevara's definitive account of the Cuban revolutionary war, in an updated edition with a new foreword and photos. There is no better account of the Cuban revolutionary war than this little book by guerilla leader Che Guevara. Assembled from his campaign diary, first published in 1963, later corre ...Show more
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
An exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann- the lost genius who invented our worldThe smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nanotechnology and nuclear weapons. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable man- John von Neumann.B ...Show more
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times bestselling author Nick OffermanNick Offerman has always felt a pa ...Show more