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
Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking by Marianne Eloise
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
An exploration of the intersection of neurodivergence, obsession and disorder.
A Gentle Radical - The Life of Jeanette Fitzsimons by Gareth Hughes
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A major biography of Jeanette Fitzsimons, the hugely influential leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Jeanette Fitzsimons was a visionary, a pioneer and a radical. This is the story of someone who battles National and Labour's lock on parliament and had the courage to challenge political s ...Show more
Bandoola: The Great Elephant Rescue by William Grill
$42.99 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In this moving tale, join war veteran James Howard Williams as he encounters Bandoola, a working Asian elephant for the first time. Working together on a teak plantation, the two develop a rare friendship, which even today set standards around elephant care and conservation. But when another war force ...Show more
Many Different Kinds of Love - A Story of Life, Death and the NHS by Michael Rosen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A national treasure's journey to the brink and back. 'Will I wake up?' 'There's a 50-50 chance.' Michael Rosen wasn't feeling well. Soon he was struggling to breathe, and then he was admitted to hospital, suffering from coronavirus as the nation teetered on the edge of a global pandemic. What followed ...Show more
Come As You Are: The Story Of Nirvana by Michael Azerad, Michael Azerrad
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Nevermind, whose thunderous sound and indelible melodies embodied all the confusion, frustration, and passion of the emerging Generation X. Come As You Are is the close-up, intimate story of Nirvana -- the onl ...Show more