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Walking with Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne. 'Make no mistake about it: this is a masterpiece . . . poetic, moving and very funny' -- Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin As a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabri ...Show more
Masters of the Air - How the Bomber Boys Broke down the Nazi War Machine by Donald L. Miller
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'Seconds after Brady's plane was hit, the Hundredth's entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes that flew parallel' Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain's Lancaster comrades, who helped t ...Show more
To Shake the Sleeping Self - A Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'A thrilling, tender, utterly absorbing book. It's an unforgettable debut' Cheryl Strayed A soul-stirring read for the wanderer in each of us, To Shake the Sleeping Self is an unforgettable reflection on adventure, identity and a life lived without regret. On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of be ...Show more
Time to Remember by Janna Ruth
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
When the Canterbury Earthquakes destroyed their city, Natalie and her friends were only ten years old. Too old to forget, but too young to be heard, they have never told their stories. Until now. Ten years after the earthquakes, Natalie returns to her home town with a plan. To show how the earthquakes ...Show more
Promises to Keep by Joe Biden
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Arrivals
President-elect Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama's beloved, influential vice president. 'I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling.' - Joe B ...Show more
Kate Edger: The life of a pioneering feminist by Diana Morrow
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
In 1877, Kate Edger became the first woman to graduate from a New Zealand university. The New Zealand Herald enthusiastically hailed her achievement as 'the first rays of the rising sun of female intellectual advancement'. Edger went on to become a pioneer of women's education in New Zealand. She also w ...Show more
Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook by Annie Gray
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The story of the twentieth century through one woman's life and the food she cooked for our most famous Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply worked hard and enjoyed her life. But while Georgina Landemare saw herself ...Show more
The Misadventures of Polly Gillespie - Reports from a Riotous Life by Polly Gillespie
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
With a great deal of humour and honesty Polly Gillespie walks the reader through some of the ups and downs of life, with advice, warnings, and stories simply involving the awkwardness of being Polly. (She says that at the very least these will make you feel normal.) She has been on radio and in magazin ...Show more
Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman 'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald 'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree 'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell 'I was entrance ...Show more
One Italian Summer by Pip Williams
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food, and spend more time with the people they love. But jobs and responsibilities got in the way: their chooks died, their fruit rotted, and Pip ended up depressed and in therapy. So they did the only reasonable t ...Show more
Francis Bacon - Revelations by Mark Stevens; Annalyn Swan
$70.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Francis Bacon flung open the twentieth-century closet. By day he exposed the secrets of a dark century, and by night he swashbuckled through Soho, never concealing his homosexuality. Francis Bacon: Revelations, a decade in the making, is the first biography of this seminal artist to appear in twenty-fiv ...Show more
One Two Three Four: the Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year From the award-winning author of Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four. John Updike compared them to 'the sun coming out on an Easter morning'. Bo ...Show more
