Sundowner of the Skies: The Story of Oscar Garden, the Forgotten Aviator by Mary Garden
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In the early morning of 16 October 1930, Oscar Garden taxied his tiny open-cockpit Gipsy Moth across London's Croydon aerodrome and, with a wave of his hand to the only person there to farewell him, took off. He had carpet slippers on his feet and a packet of sandwiches on his lap. His plan was to fly t ...Show more
Everything That Makes Us Human - Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon by Jay Jayamohan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair, use a scalpel to nick the skin then apply an electro-cautery device to burn down to bone level. It's a slow, precise method and it leaves almost no scarring. But it takes time. Time, the interminable ...Show more
Do Something for Nothing - Seeing Beneath the Surface of Homelessness, Through the Simple Act of a Haircut by Joshua Coombes
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Through the simple act of a hair cut, readers are taken on a geographical and emotional journey into the lives of humans experiencing homelessness in different cities across the world. "Coombes is a hairdresser, and he believes that small acts of love can make a big impact." --Morgan Freeman, in The Sto ...Show more
Recipe for a Kinder Life by Annie Smithers
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In this generous account of life on the land and in the kitchen, trailblazing cook Annie Smithers chronicles her quest for a more sustainable existence, in harmony with the environment and the self. Part meditation, part memoir, the book offers practical advice and wisdom gleaned from a life dedicated t ...Show more
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A major new biography published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, offering a fresh, human portrayal "Illuminating. . . . Tunbridge's pithy A Life in Nine Pieces is different and welcome: a biography presented through the focus of nine different compositions."--Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian" ...Show more
Hidden Valley Road - Galvin Family by Robert Kolker
$29.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEARPEOPLE'S #1 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNamed a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, TIME, Slate, Smithsonian, The New ...Show more
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces by Patrick Mackie
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The music and life of one of modernity's most prevalent figures through the compositions that shaped him, from a dazzling new writer of non-fiction. Mozart holds a central, unwavering place in our culture, and his works are widely loved and listened to, often as much-loved favourites, or as background ...Show more
Dancing with the Octopus - The Telling of a True Crime by Debora Harding
$25.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
A fierce, strikingly redemptive exploration of the impact of traumatic violence on victim, perpetrator and society.
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes
$70.00 NZD
Category: Languages
Ted Hughes seeks to unlock the secret of Shakespeare in his critical magnum opus - reissued with a foreword by Robert McCrum. This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attempt to show the Complete Works - ...Show more
Dante by Alessandro Barbero
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A new biography of Dante in time for the 700th anniversary of his death. An international bestseller. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over 700 years. However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well-known, and less still is generally k ...Show more
The Secret Midwife - Life, Death and the Truth about Birth by The Secret Midwife; Katy Weitz
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Birth is one of the most defining, ubiquitous moments of human existence and there, from the very start to the very end, are the midwives who help us navigate it safely.
The Elements - A Widowhood by Kat Lister
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'Powerful, humane and deeply affecting, Lister's wise and truthful writing makes this essential reading for anyone touched, and utterly confused, by grief.' Sali Hughes What does it mean to become a widow at 35? In her mid-thirties Kat Lister lost her husband to brain cancer. After five years of being a ...Show more