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
The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer
$32.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There sh ...Show more
The Necessary Aptitude : A Memoir by Pam Ayres
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Author Tour 1 - 6 November 2011. An eagerly-awaited country childhood memoir by one of Britain's most-loved personalities. Pam Ayres is one of Britain's best-loved personalities. She appears regularly on TV and radio, and has her own Radio 4 programme Ayres on the Air. She performs her solo stage show ...Show more
The Nehrus and the Gandhis : An Indian dynasty (3rd ed, 2004) by Tariq Ali
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Newly revised, this is a major and authoritative work on one of India's greatest families. The Nehrus are a dynasty without precedent in the modern world; nowhere else and at no other time in recent history has a single family wielded such enduring and pervasive power over the country - and the electora ...Show more
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery by Barbara K.Lipska
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'Oliver Sacks-meets-When Breath Becomes Air ... Barbara Lipska's remarkable story illuminates the many mysteries of our fragile yet resilient brains.' LISA GENOVA, bestselling author of Still Alice and Every Note PlayedIn January 2015 renowned neuroscientist Barbara Lipska's melanoma spread to her brain ...Show more
The New Philanthropists : The new generosity by Charles B. Handy
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Who are the new philanthropists? And how is their philanthropy 'new'? In this remarkable and inspiring book, the eminent management writer Charles Handy and his wife Elizabeth, a portrait photographer, have collaborated to portray a new generation of practical philanthropists, men and women who have mad ...Show more
The New Tsar : The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
$29.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
An epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most conflicted and important leaders. Former New York TimesMoscow Bureau Chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Putin since well before the recent events in the Ukraine, and gives us the fullest and m ...Show more
The Night Dragon by Matthew Condon
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
. . . he is hard to frighten . . . he is very methodical . . . he does not like sunlight because he is very fair-skinned . . . he has the tattoo of St George and the Dragon . . . - Witness statement given to the Crime Intelligence Unit, Brisbane, 1974. In 2017, Vincent O'Dempsey, along with his accomp ...Show more
The Night Swimmers by Peter Rock
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems- crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs, depths of absolute darkness, shipwrecked bodies, hidden places. Peter Rock's stunning autobiographical novel begins in the '90s on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin. The narrator, a recent college graduat ...Show more
The Night of the Gun by David Carr
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
David Carr was an addict for more than twenty years -- first dope, then coke, then finally crack -- before the prospect of losing his newborn twins made him sober up in a bid to win custody from their crack-dealer mother. Once recovered, he found that his recollection of his 'lost' years differed -- som ...Show more
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
$41.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the death of Lord Byron - who had been aiding the Greeks in their struggle for independence, Delacroix's painting of the T ...Show more
The Note Through the Wire - A WWII prisoner of war, a resistance heroine and their incredible true story by Doug Gold
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
An extraordinary true story of a love that emerged, against all odds, from the brutal war in Nazi-occupied Europe.