The Fictional Christopher Nolan by Todd McGowan
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From Memento and Insomnia to the Batman films, The Prestige, and Inception, lies play a central role in every Christopher Nolan film. Characters in the films constantly find themselves deceived by others and are often caught up in a vast web of deceit that transcends any individual lies. The formal stru ...Show more
100 Ideas That Changed Film by David Parkinson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Pocket Editions Ser.
This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped film since its inception. Entertaining and intelligent, it provides a concise history as well as being a fascinating resource to dip into. Arranged in a broadly chronological order to show the development of film, the ideas inclu ...Show more
Shackleton's Captain - A Biography of Frank Worsley by John Thomson
$29.95 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Frank Worsley shared with Sir Ernest Shackleton one of the greatest adventures of the heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. After their ship Endurance was crushed in the ice in 1915, they made what is perhaps the most famous small-boat journey in history, across 800 miles of the world's roughest seas to ...Show more
The Year of the End: A Memoir of Marriage, Truth and Fiction by Anne Theroux
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'This memoir is based on the diary I kept during 1990, the year that my first marriage came to an end.' After 22 years, spent across four continents, with two children - Louis and Marcel - in 1990 Anne and Paul Theroux decided to separate. For that year, Anne - later a professional relationship therapis ...Show more
The Story of Beatrix Potter by Sarah Gristwood
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This illustrated biography of the beloved writer has been a strong seller and critical success. It is now available in a smaller, more affordable format. Interest in Beatrix Potter and her characters is undimmed, with the second Peter Rabbit film being released in summer 2021 and an exhibition at the V& ...Show more
Ciao Bella! Six Take Italy by Kate Langbroek
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Kate Langbroek’s deliciously funny, irreverent and inspiring memoir about moving to Bologna with her family to seek la dolce vita is a glorious reminder of what we can learn from the Italians about living life to the full – and what really matters when the world goes to hell in a handbasket. ‘I wasn’t ...Show more
Speak, Okinawa - A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran--and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met ...Show more
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
$29.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and resigned from the Dutch Pa ...Show more
Albert And the Whale by Philip Hoare
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of Leviathan.Albrecht Dürer changed the way we saw nature through art. From his prints in 1498 of the plague ridden Apocalypse - the first works mass produced by any artist - to his hyper-real ima ...Show more
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
$42.99 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of Leviathan, or The Whale. Albrecht Dürer changed the way we saw nature through art. From his prints in 1498 of the plague ridden Apocalypse - the first works mass produced by any artist - to his ...Show more
Burning Man -The Ascent of D.H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Frances Wilson writes books that blow your hair back. She makes Lawrence live and breathe, annoy and captivate you ... she conjures the past with such clarity and wit and flair that it feels utterly present' Katherine Rundell 'A brilliantly unconventional biograp ...Show more