Under a Big Sky - Facing the elements on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: good-very good
The joys and challenges of day-to-day farming in extraordinary circumstances. Tim Saunders writes about his life and work on the farm that's been in his family for five generations. He encompasses drought, farming during lockdown, illness, financial pressure and the drive to become more viable and envir ...Show more
Unfinished by Priyanka Chopra Jonas
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
A thoughtful and revealing memoir from one of the world's most recognizable women, renowned for her bold risk-taking, multiculturalism, and activism. "I am a product of traditional India and its ancient wisdom, and modern India and its urban bustle. My upbringing was always an amalgamation of the two In ...Show more
Unfollow - A journey from hatred to hope - Leaving the Westboro Baptist church by Megan Phelps-Roper
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: good
'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' - LOUIS THEROUX 'A beautiful, gripping book about a singular soul, and an unexpected redemption' - NICK HORNBY As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' It was an upbringing in many ways norm ...Show more
Unknown: A Refugee's Story by Akuch KUOL ANYIETH
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting memoir of a young woman starting a new life in Australia under the shadow of violence A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting story about a young girl's escape, with her family, from war-torn South Sudan to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, and then to A ...Show more
Unlike the Heart: A Story of Brain and Mind PB by Nicola Redhouse
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: 3
What is a mind? How can its ills be treated when it resides in a body and in a life? With the birth of Nicola Redhouse's first child comes an unrelenting anxiety that quickly overwhelms her. As immense as her love for her children is, it can't protect her from the dread that prevents her from leaving th ...Show more
Unorthodox - The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Juda ...Show more
Unprecedented: The Masters and Me by Tiger Woods
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
In 1997, Tiger Woods was already among the most watched and closely examined athletes in history. Butit wasn't until the Masters Tournament that Tiger Woods's career would definitively change forever.Tiger Woods, then only 21, won the Masters by a historic 12 shots, which remains the widest margin ofvic ...Show more
Untitled: the Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anna Pasternak
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: 3
Who was the real Wallis: an opportunistic American social climber, a master manipulator or the true love of Edward's life? Amid the cacophony of condemnation her story has become obfuscated. Untitled is an intimate biography of one of the most misunderstood women in British royal history. His charisma a ...Show more
Urban Outlaw: Dirt Don't Slow You Down by Magnus Walker
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Magnus Walker is one of life's originals. Serial entrepreneur, fashion designer, TV presenter, motivational speaker and one of the world's most prolific Porsche collectors, the dreadlocked, tattooed hoarder of individual creativity is a very modern incarnation of idiosyncratic success. Raised in the gri ...Show more
Valerie Taylor: An Adventurous Life by Valerie Taylor
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: An Adventurous Life | Reading Level: near fine
At 83 years old, Valerie Taylor has lived a big, bold adventurous life. Born in Australia, Valerie spent a great deal of her childhood in New Zealand. A talented artist, she dropped out of school when she contracted polio and was saved by Sister Elizabeth Kenny's treatment plan; it was two years before ...Show more
Van Morrison - No Surrender by Johnny Rogan
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Reclusive, difficult and enigmatic, Van Morrison is a gifted singer-songwriter and an endlessly complicated man. In Van Morrison: No Surrender, Johnny Rogan has produced a provocative and revelatory biography of the musician, analysing the sense of place in his work and the tortuous journey that took hi ...Show more
Verse, Chorus, Monster! by Graham Coxon
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
A long-awaited memoir of Blur co-founder, guitar legend and visual artist Graham Coxon. Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to become one of the most innovative and respected guitarists of his generation - but it wasn't always easy. G ...Show more