The Secret Life of Flying by Jeremy Burfoot
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
The Secret Life of Flying : What really happens when you travel by air? How does a plane stay up in the air? Does the Mile High Club actually exist? When you flush the toilet, where does it all go? Buckle up for some turbulence because nothing flies under the radar for Captain Jeremy Burfoot. With more ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits- his bus is involved in a horrific accident ...Show more
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its hone ...Show more
Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend by Flea
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star. Michael Peter Balzary was born i ...Show more
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard's I Remember and Edouard Levé's Autoportrait, passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are the alphabetical diaries.
Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones by Dolly Parton
$95.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
A beautifully illustrated celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive. In Behind the Seams My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the firs ...Show more
Burn Book by Kara Swisher
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.While tech titans bragged they would 'move fast and break things', Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. Covering ...Show more
Cowpuppy: An unexpected friendship and a scientist's journey into the secret world of cows by Gregory Berns
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
From the author of the bestselling How Dogs Love Us, a fascinating glimpse into the cognitive and emotional lives of cows. When Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his wife decided to venture into sustainable farming in rural Georgia, they knew that cows were a key part of a successful op ...Show more
David Bowie Rainbowman: 1967-1980 by Jerome Soligny
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
"This is a book unlike any other, the definitive analysis of David's music, told in a quiet natural way, but with absolute authenticity, by the people's around him" - Hermione Farthingale "Jérôme Soligny is one of the best authorities in the world of David Bowie's career and life in general... His ne ...Show more
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38 by Chips Channon
$46.00 NZD
Category: Historical Biography
The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries 'The greatest British diarist of the 20th century. An astonishing achievement. By turns frivolous and profound.' Ben Macintyre, The Times 'Wickedly entertaining.' Andrew Marr, New Statesman 'An irresistible, saucy read . . . One ...Show more