The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
$29.00 NZD
Category: Futurism
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a compelling account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she c ...Show more
The Modern Singhs - A Marriage of Two Cultures by Abbey Singh; Money Singh (As told to)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Abbey and Money Singh are better known as The Modern Singhs, Kiwi social media celebrities with a rich and tangled love story to tell. Shared through the eyes of this inspiring duo, The Modern Singhs reveals their experiences as migrants to New Zealand as they struggled to find footing in new surrou ...Show more
The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond by Chris Long
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary life. On the West Coast of the South Island, past deep fiords and snow-capped mountains, Chris Long grew up two days' hike from the nearest road. He was born into the country's most isolated family, his parents committed to freedom from ...Show more
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd by Finlay Macdonald
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd is both a tale of remarkable success and a window into a brilliant creative mind.Finlay Macdonald's beautifully told, visually gorgeous biography of Dame Lynley Dodd and her creation, the rascally dog Hairy Maclary. 'A visual delight' NZ Listener's 100 Best Books of 2013' ...Show more
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett
$17.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Reflections on Covid and confinement from the unparalleled pen of Alan Bennett. 4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost gauntlets. I hope they're not the thin end of a precautionary wedge ...Show more
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Shortlisted for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fictionFrom standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establis ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies at her heels. Dying at the age of only 34, she became posthumously one of the most influential writers of the last century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the ...Show more
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as ... a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering ...Show more
Life Support - Diary of an ICU Doctor on the Frontline of the Covid Crisis by Jim Down
$26.00 NZD
Category: Medical and Nursing
As a doctor running the intensive care unit at one of London's top hospitals, Jim Down has spent his life working as healthcare's last resort, where the unexpected is always around the corner, and life and death decisions are an everyday occurrence.But nothing had prepared Jim and his team for the event ...Show more
The Countess from Kirribilli by Joyce Morgan
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Elizabeth von Armin
She was Australian born, an international bestselling author and a member of the glamorous literary, intellectual and society salons of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London and Europe. She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirl ...Show more
Bold Beyond Belief : Bill Denz, New Zealand's Mountain Warrior by Paul Maxim
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe by Anna Kent
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A story of women in crisis, seen through the eyes of a remarkable midwife 'My own suffering, my own loneliness, was a fair price to pay for the lives we'd saved. And now here I am, training to be a midwife, so that next time I can make it better.'Anna Kent has delivered babies in war zones, caring for t ...Show more