Conundrum by Jan Morris
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations and discoveries. On first publication in 1974, the book ...Show more
Tiger Woods: Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2018 by Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biography
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 THE OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A rattling read... Superbly written' Derek Lawrenson, Daily Mail 'Arguably the most serious attempt ever made to get behind golf's great enigma' Emma John, Guardian 'Exhilarating, depressing, tawdry and moving.. ...Show more
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Seventeen Brushes with Death
AS SELECTED FOR THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018* I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extr ...Show more
Educated by Tara Westover
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't b ...Show more
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilari ...Show more
Stet by Diana Athill
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
For nearly 50 years, Diana Athill edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) some of the most celebrated writers in the English language. In a prose style of inimitable wit and rare candour, she recounts tales from a long life in publishing, including her reflections on editing writers such as V. S. Nai ...Show more
Cristiano and Leo by Jimmy Burns
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
For the best part of the last decade soccer has seen a personal rivalry unlike any seen before: Cristiano and Leo. This is their definitive story, from children kicking a ball halfway around the world from each other to their era-defining rivalry. One the preening Adonis, a precision physical machine wh ...Show more
Elisabeth's Lists - A Life Between Lines by Lulah Ellender
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Many years after the death of her grandmother, Lulah Ellender inherited a curious object - a book of handwritten lists.On the face of it, Elisabeth's lists seemed rather ordinary - shopping lists, items to be packed for a foreign trip, a tally of the eggs laid by her hens. But from these everyday fragme ...Show more
When We Remember to Breathe - Mess, Magic and Mothering by Michele Powles; Renee Liang
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Two courageous Kiwi women, one an author and the other a paediatrician, lay bare the raw joy, beauty, discomfort and humour of modern motherhood. The result is remarkable and fearless. Through births, death, stumbles and first steps, Michele Powles and Renee Liang wrote. And together these gifted wri ...Show more
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation' Daily Telegraph In August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. Being a writer, she decided to write about her experience - and to tell a story she had not yet t ...Show more
Boy: Popular Penguins by Roald Dahl
$13.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Korean edition of Boy by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake, translated by Jeong Hwoi Seong. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.