The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open 'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?' Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London ...Show more
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admir ...Show more
Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story by Lynda Topp, Jools Topp
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ biography
The incredible story of how a couple of country kids from Huntly became much-loved Kiwi icons and TV stars, with their own unique brand of original country music and comedy that has captivated audiences in New Zealand and overseas for over 40 years. Jools and Lynda Topp aka The Topp Twins tell this sto ...Show more
Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time an ...Show more
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows - A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
$55.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Hailed as 'the most important artist work ...Show more
A Canoe Before the Wind: An Immigrant Son's Story of Family, Adversity and Courage by Vitale Lafaele
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
An extraordinary memoir of an immigrant son's story of a better future. In 1962, a Samoan family journeyed to New Zealand - a country immigrants once called 'the land of milk and honey' - in search of a better life. Instead, their eldest son, Vitale, arrived in an era of dawn raids by police and immigr ...Show more
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story by Polly Morland
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
<b>'Polly Morland and Richard Baker have more than done justice to the original John Berger book - and produced a work that stimulates the eye and mind in equal measure.' Alain de Botton</b> <i>A Fortunate Woman</i> is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and ...Show more
A Grief Observed - Readers' Edition by C. S. Lewis; Jenna Bailey; Maureen Freely; Hilary Mantel; Jessica Martin; Kate Saunders; Francis Spufford; Rowan Williams
$29.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. In response, he wrote this journal, freely confessing his pain, ...Show more
A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life by Cliff Richard
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
In this new and personal memoir looking back over 65 years in music, Cliff Richard tells his own stories behind the songs and sounds that have stayed in his heart, and defined his life and times. Foreword by Bob Stanley. On a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Web ...Show more
A Song Flung Up to Heaven (#6) by Maya Angelou
$28.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage son Gu ...Show more
A Woman in Berlin - Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945 by Anonymous; Antony Beevor (Introduction)
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
* A startling account of a German survivor of the Second World War. 'One of the most important personal accounts ever written about the effects of war and defeat' Antony Beevor 'One of the most extraordinary and moving books I have ever read' Antonia Fraser
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