Larrimah: A missing man, an eyeless croc and an outback town of 11 people who mostly hate each other by Caroline Graham, Kylie Stevenson
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
A dying town, a missing man. One of Australia's greatest mysteries - two whodunnits, twisted together. Larrimah: hot, barren, a speck of dust in the centre of the nothingness of outback Australia. Where you might find a death adder in the bar and a spider or ten in the toaster. Maybe it's stupid to writ ...Show more
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl [New Edition] by Paul Brannigan
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups. He's the nicest guy in rock. From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitter ...Show more
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
The explosive new book by the bestselling author of The Mountbattens. Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the former king was kept in exile, feuding with his family over status for his wife, Wallis Simpson, and ...Show more
Able (Fully updated edition) by Dylan Alcott
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
The incredible life of an astonishing athlete and now disability advocate - fully updated to include Wimbledon and French Open wins and moreDylan Alcott has never let his disability get in the way of what he wanted to achieve.His family treated him no differently to any other kid, and it was the best th ...Show more
And Away... by Bob Mortimer
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
The long-awaited first autobiography by national treasure Bob Mortimer.Bob Mortimer's life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him, but forced him to ref ...Show more
Lowitja: The authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
A heart-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming Holocaust survivor story that demonstrates the power of love to see us through the darkest of times. When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he’d written ‘Good luck and happiness’. A ...Show more
Miriam Margoyles - This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: near fine
From Blackadder to Call the Midwife, from the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit to Harry Potter, Miriam Margolyes is the outspoken great aunt (after two sherries) we all wish we had – this is (at last) her extraordinary life story and it's well worth the wait. ‘There is no one on earth quite so wonderful’ STEPHE ...Show more
Windswept and Interesting - My Autobiography by Billy Connolly
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life is ...Show more
The Storyteller - Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!'), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always ...Show more
Manifesto - On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: near fine
The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and act ...Show more
Our Sunburnt Country by Anika Molesworth
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Anika Molesworth fell in love with her family's farm, a sheep station near Broken Hill, at an early age. She formed a bond with the land as though it were a member of her family. When the Millennium Drought hit, though, bringing with it extreme heat and dust storms, the future she'd always imagined for ...Show more