The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
$30.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
"264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox- potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the netsuke, they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined The ...Show more
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round the World (1697) is an incomparably vivid, chaotic and fascinating account by the pirate, explorer and naturalist William Dampier of his many adventures. The world he describes sprawls all the way from the Caribbean west across the Pacifi ...Show more
Mary's Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao's Last Dancer by Mary Li
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'I can vividly remember the last steps of the last ballet, walking off the stage led by a mother and knowing the decision I had to make. That was my last dance.' Mary Li (nee McKendry) is an international ballet star and a mother like no other. She became a household name when her husband Li Cunxin publ ...Show more
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series by Dolly Alderton
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting du ...Show more
A Half Baked Idea - How Grief, Love and Cake Took Me from the Courtroom to le Cordon Bleu by Olivia Potts
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON'S DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 'A tender and beautifully written tour-de-force on love, grief, hope and cake. If this is not the book of the summer, I will eat my wig. An absolute triumph' THE SECRET BARRISTER 'An utterly beautiful, moving, bittersweet book on love and loss. ...Show more
Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story by Chanel Miller
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on Buzzfeed, where it instantly went viral - viewed b ...Show more
Dinosaur Hunter: Joan Wiffen's Awesome Fossil Discoveries by David Hill; Phoebe Morris
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
The remarkable true story of science superstar Joan Wiffen, whose fossil discoveries proved that dinosaurs lived in ancient New Zealand. Once there was a clever girl who liked searching for interesting things on the ground. She wanted to know why shells could be found in rocks so far away from the sea. ...Show more
Orwell: A Man of Our Time by Richard Bradford
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings. As one of the most enduringly popular and controversial novelists of the last century, the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's death in 2020 offers an opportunity to assess his relevance today. Despite the commonplace view that Animal Farm was aimed exclu ...Show more
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The New York Times bestselling author hailed as "the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one" (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel. What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taugh ...Show more
A Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz by Dita Kraus
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys of ...Show more
Ripiro Beach: A Memoir of Life After Near Death by Caroline Barron
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Does DNA write our destinies? Or do the hands that nurture triumph over nature? What is it that determines who we really are? Caroline Barron's father never found his birth mother. After he dies suddenly on her twentieth birthday, Caroline develops an insidious fear of her own untimely death. When she n ...Show more
A River Rules My Life by Mona Anderson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The original and all-time classic of high-country station life in New Zealand Mount Algidus, the author's home, was one of the great high-country sheep stations of Canterbury, New Zealand. It occupied a mountain range between two ice rivers and lay in the very shadow of the Southern Alps. Published with ...Show more