Kitchen Confidential: Insider's Edition by Anthony Bourdain
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The New York Times bestselling memoir from Anthony Bourdain, the host of Parts Unknown. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Bou ...Show more
Kubrick by Michael Herr
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Kubrick is Michael Herr's memoir of his nearly twenty-year friendship and collaboration with Stanley Kubrick, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time and the creator of such classics as Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange. From their first meeting at an advance screening of ...Show more
Lives of the Wives - Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Nonfiction of the Year One of PEOPLE's Top 10 Books of the Year "Delicious and infuriating...unputdownable." --Sadie Stein, New York Times "A compulsively readable book." --Wall Street Journal In Lives of the Wives, author Carmela Ci ...Show more
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: The\Journals of Derek Jarman Ser.
A divine, meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness. 'An essential - urgent - book for the 21st Century' Hans Ulrich Obrist WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY OLIVIA LAING In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren ...Show more
My Life in Full - Work, Family and Our Future by Indra Nooyi
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The inspiring memoir by Indra Nooyi, the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo 'A must-read for working women and the men who work with us, love us and support us' Hillary Rodham Clinton 'Surprising and compelling' Financial Times The first woman of colour and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company - and ...Show more
My Work by Olga Ravn (Author) , Sophia Hersi Smith (Translated by) , Jennifer Russell (Translated by)
$48.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf the new mother, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively buys clothes she can't afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, Anna force ...Show more
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth by Adam Zamoyski
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of StalingradA landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski's portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at ...Show more
Ready for Absolutely Nothing by Susannah Constantine
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Rock stars to royalty, society to sobriety, get to know the real Susannah Constantine in the hottest memoir of the year'Sensational, juicy, gossipy, filthy and bravely honest in equal measure, Susannah Constantine's memoir is a rollicking romp through the upper middle classes' SUNDAY TIMES, 'BEST BIOGRA ...Show more
Surf By Day, Jam By Night by Ash Grunwald
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Surf by Day, Jam by Night is seasoned bluesman and surfer Ash Grunwald’s deep dive into the extraordinary. From heavy wipe-outs to heaving crowds, soulful road trips to flow states, this book gives a rare insight into the lives and minds of the true legends who have mastered the artforms of surfing and ...Show more
Tarkovsky - Films, Stills, Polaroids and Writings by Andrey Tarkovsky
$65.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Andrey Tarkovsky was the most important Russian filmmaker of the post-war era, and one of the world's most renowned cinematic geniuses. He directed the first five of his seven films - Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror and Stalker - in the Soviet Union, but in 1982 defected to Italy, where ...Show more
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
A charming, hilarious account of Griffin Dunne's coming of age among a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan. At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary L.A. party for the pu ...Show more
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China by Michael Sheridan
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Xi Jinping rules over 1.4 billion people and the second biggest economy on earth. He commands huge armed forces and runs a technology programme meant to dominate the globe. His ambition is to take the place of the United States and to change the world order. Xi's life story is full of drama: plots, pur ...Show more