The Modern Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
$65.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This book profiles thirty-nine modern explorers who have disproved the idea that there is nowhere left to discover and explore. Some are greatly experienced and are celebrated worldwide, while others are young or less well known and just starting to make their mark. Here are challenging and extraordina ...Show more
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to ...Show more
The Most of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This is a comprehensive anthology of Nora Ephron at her funniest and most acute, here are her writings on journalism, feminism, and being a woman; on the importance of food (with favourite recipes), and on the bittersweet reality of growing old. This collection includes extracts from her bestselling nov ...Show more
The Moth: This Is A True Story by Catherine Burns (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The storytellers knew their craft and bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. The Moth is a n ...Show more
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest (Maurice Wilson) by Ed Caesar
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Biography
The untold story of Britain's most mysterious mountaineering legend - Maurice Wilson - and his heroic attempt to climb Everest. Alone.In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan. He wo ...Show more
The Motorcycle Diaries : Notes on a Latin American journey ( Movie Tie-In Edition - Out of print) by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Notes on a Latin American Journey. Now a major motion picture directed by Walter Salles starring Gael Garc
The Museum of Words by Georgia Blain
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Memoir of Language, Writing & Mortality
On a bright spring day in 2015, as Georgia Blain was mowing the lawn, she collapsed on a bed of blossoms, blood frothing at her mouth. Waking up to find herself in the back of an ambulance being rushed to hospital, she tries to answer questions, but is unable to speak. After the shock of a bleak prognos ...Show more
The Myers by Paul Goldsmith & Michael Bassett
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
The Myers is a sweeping study of four generations of the Myers family. It moves from Prussian Poland to the goldfields of Ballarat to bankruptcy in the South Island and then to a growing fortune in beer and liquor. It tells the story of local government involvement by the first two generations, and the ...Show more
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Art Bechstein steps out of the library into the summer of his graduation year. Not yet ready for respectability, he falls in with the exotic, charming Arthur Lecomte, and ricochets between a homosexual relationship and an intense affair with a strange and beautiful girl called Phlox. Before long, the wo ...Show more
The Mystery of Olga Chekhova by Antony Beevor
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: good
In his latest work, Antony Beevor--bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem and one of our most respected historians of World War II--brings us the true, little-known story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova, a stunning Russian beauty, was the niece of playwrigh ...Show more
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connection ...Show more
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This is the flamboyant autobiography of the uninhibited and wonderful Quentin Crisp.Quentin Crisp was a true original. With his mauve hair and flamboyant sense of style, by the time of his death he was widely hailed as one of the great British eccentrics. An openly gay man in a less tolerant era (he onc ...Show more