Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. From 1936 to 1940, the newly-wed George Orwell lived in a small cottage in Hertfordshire, writing, and tending his garden. When Rebecca Solnit visited the ...Show more
Bourdain: In Stories by Laurie Woolever
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has ...Show more
Going Solo by Ronald Dahl
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: The Centenary Collection
In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism esprit de corps that have characterised the Royal Air Force throughou ...Show more
The Gosden Years - A New Zealand Film Festival Legacy by Bill Gosden
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Bill Gosden was at the forefront of Aotearoa film culture from 1980 to 2019. The Gosden Years is a record of his enormous legacy as director of the New Zealand International Film Festival—the country’s leading annual cinema event and a constant wellspring of film discovery and appreciation. Conceived by ...Show more
My Adventurous Life by Dick Smith
$42.91 NZD
Category: Biography
ABIA 2022 Biography Book of the Year Entrepreneur, adventurer, philanthropist ... Australian icon Dick Smith shares his extraordinary life story for the first time. 'Part Bear Grylls, part Bill Gates, but 100% Aussie larrikin. Dick is a great innovator, philanthropist and adventurer, who in my eyes can ...Show more
Like Father, Like Son - A Family Story by Michael Parkinson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'a quietly impressive book, which does something most celebrity autobiographies shy away from: it seeks the truth and, more often than not, finds it.' - THE MAILA look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining vill ...Show more
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time. 'This is the book for every woman trying to place their body on the map of consumption vs control, and every woman who wants to better understand h ...Show more
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk. Nadia Wassef knows this song by heart. In 2002, with her siste ...Show more
National Identity - Confessions of an Outsider by Simon Bridges
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
An open, honest and at times intensely personal memoir about race, fatherhood, marriage, masculinity, fitting in, and the things that shape our national character. Simon Bridges grew up as the son of a working-class Baptist preacher in Te Atatu, as the youngest of six children. In many ways he had a typ ...Show more
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes (HB) by Rob Wilkins
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.' Terry Pratchett, creator of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, knight of the realm, and holder of more honorary doctorates than he knew what to do with, was known and loved around the world for his wildly p ...Show more
Will by Will Smith, Mark Manson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of o ...Show more
Exodus, Revisited: My Unorthodox Journey to Berlin by Deborah Feldman
$26.95 NZD
Category: Biography
The definitive follow-up to Unorthodox (the basis for the award-winning Netflix series)-now updated with more than 50 percent new material-the unforgettable story of what happened in the years after Deborah Feldman left a religious sectin Williamsburgin order to forgeher own path in the world. In 2009, ...Show more