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
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, the father of science fiction, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H.G Wells' life shape a fantastic writer into a visionary? Claire Tomalin's remarkable and empathetic biography, focusing on HG Wells' early l ...Show more
Lost and Found - My Story of Heartbreak and Hope by Toni Street
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Toni Street's easy on-air style and warm personality has made her a firm favourite with thousands of New Zealanders. But behind the bubbly persona, is a story of heartbreak and resilience. Toni and her twin brother Lance were the much-loved first children of Taranaki dairy farmers Geoff and Wendy Street ...Show more
Signs of Life - To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor by Stephen Fabes
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The cycling doctor: Round the world with a stethoscope.
My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A widely researched and boldly argued work about reclaiming our bodies from shame from a key intersectional feminist thinker of a new generation It occurred to me then that the thing that made me the sickest, the thing that made me suffer most, was the fact that I felt so compelled to hide what had bee ...Show more
The Accidental Teacher by Tim Heath
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Funny, poignant, charming and deeply sad at times, this is a beautifully written story of a life in teaching. Tim Heath taught for about 40 years, mostly in New Zealand but also in Samoa, in small country schools, in big city schools, at the Correspondence School, in primary schools and secondary school ...Show more
The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men who Tried to Make her Disappear by Kate Moore
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. Elizabeth Packard was an ordinary Victorian housewife and mother of six. That was, until the first Woman's Rights Convention was held in 1 ...Show more
Cleo: How a Small Black Cat Helped Heal a Family by Helen Brown
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biography
For all those people who say they aren't cat people, but deep down know they are.Helen Brown wasn't a cat person, but her nine-year-old son Sam was. So when Sam heard someone mention that her cat had just had a litter, he pleaded to go and see them. Helen was powerless to resist and the deal was done - ...Show more
Olive, Mabel and Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs by Andrew Cotter
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Having reached over 50 million views online, Labradors Olive and Mabel became the focus of a delightful book by sports commentator Andrew Cotter. A treat for dog lovers everywhere, and the perfect antidote to our times, now available in a smaller format.When Andrew Cotter turned his brilliant sports com ...Show more
Father and Son by Edmund Gosse; Sarah Perry (Afterword by); Anthony Quinn (Introduction by)
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Classic
Edmund Gosse's childhood memoir tells the often fractious, often comic story of his relationship with his authoritarian father. A pioneering naturalist and marine biologist, Philip Henry Gosse's strictly religious worldview is brought into crisis by the discoveries of Charles Darwin, and the death of hi ...Show more
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J Fox
$25.31 NZD
Category: Biography
'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The TimesThe entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future. His two previous bestselling me ...Show more
Things I Don't Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1 by Deborah Levy
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory and shape it to her need. Itis a work of ...Show more