The Rock - Through the Lens: His Life, His Movies, His World by Hiram Garcia
65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Dynamic, funny, and inspiring photos of global entertainment icon, entrepreneur, and trailblazer, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, featuring twenty years' worth of candids, family moments, and snapshots from film and television sets, many never-before-seen. Hiram Garcia, who has known Dwayne Johnson since col ...Show more
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Why do we return to Shakespeare time and again?When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became h ...Show more
The Short Story of Women Artists - A Pocket Guide to Key Breakthroughs, Movements, Works and Themes by Susie Hodge
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of Women Artists tells the full history - from the breakthroughs that women have made in pushing for parity with male artists, to the important contributions made to otherwise male-dominated artistic movements, and the forgotten and obscured artists who are now being rediscovered and rea ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
Finding Freedom: Harry And Meghan And The Making Of A Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
When news of the budding romance between a beloved English prince and an American actress broke, it captured the world's attention and sparked an international media frenzy. But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines – from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son ...Show more
Marilyn Monroe - The Private Life of a Public Icon by Charles Casillo
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Based on new interviews and research, this ground-breaking biography explores the secret selves behind Marilyn Monroe's public facades.Marilyn Monroe. Her beauty still captivates. Her love life still fascinates. Her story still dominates popular culture. Now, drawing on years of research and dozens of n ...Show more
In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World by Danielle Clode
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
A voyage of discovery, nature and untold histories - in the vein of Clare Wright, Edmund de Waal and Helen Macdonald. When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed her journey in 1775, she returned home without any fanfare at all. Jeanne Barret, an impoverished peasant from Burgundy, disgui ...Show more
Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community by Born This Way Foundation Reporters with Lady Gaga
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: Lady Gaga | Reading Level: near fine
Channel Kindness is a collection of fifty-one stories of kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation and introduced by Lady Gaga. For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kind ...Show more
The Prison Doctor: Women Inside by Amanda Brown
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown. Insights into the world of a Prison Doctor, this time taking us deeper into the walls of Bronzefield, the UK's biggest women's prison. From the drug addicts who call Amanda 'the mother I never had' to the women who've pushed back at domestic ab ...Show more
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERSLondon, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refug ...Show more
Max by Alex Miller
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
An astonishing, moving tribute to Alex's friend, Max Blatt, that is at once a meditation on memory itself, on friendship and a reminder to the reader that history belongs to humanity. 'This book so beautifully evokes the power of places in shaping our consciousness and perception…As readers of Alex Mill ...Show more
Antarctica's Lost Aviator: The Epic Adventure to Explore the Last Frontier on Earth by Jeff Maynard
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers. By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced ...Show more