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Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A deeply beautiful, profound, profane and poetic biography of the early formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is th ...Show more
Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Linda Collins gets up on a Monday morning, dresses for work, makes coffee and goes into her daughter Victoria’s bedroom. Why hasn’t Vicky got up yet? It’s an important day: the start of the second term of her final year at school. Today she will hear her latest exam results. The bedroom is empty. So be ...Show more
Impossible: My Story by Stan Walker
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Everything has a reason. Everything has a purpose. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown ...Show more
Joe Biden - American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
$43.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest - fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White H ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$70.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Sontag - Her Life by Benjamin Moser
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can be no doubting the brilliance - the sheer explanatory vigour - of Moser's biography... a triumph of the vi ...Show more
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The New York Times bestselling author hailed as "the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one" (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel. What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taugh ...Show more
Notes From An Apocalypse - A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready. They are environment ...Show more
Woman in the Wilderness: A Story of Survival, Love and Self-Discovery in New Zealand by Miriam Lancewood
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
An inspirational story of adventure and bravery, from a young woman living a primitive, nomadic life in the wilds of the South Island of New Zealand.
The Dreamer: An Autobiography by Cliff Richard
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Published to coincide with his 80th birthday, a tour and another new album, national treasure Sir Cliff Richard has emerged stronger than ever after devastating false accusations threatened to ruin his life. As he celebrates 60 years in music, he tells his incredible story in his first, full autobiograp ...Show more
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
$37.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing. Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries abo ...Show more