Oscar: A Life (Oscar Wilde) by Matthew Sturgis
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade, has to be Matthew Sturgis's Oscar ' TLS , Books of the Year. NOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019. A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'Simply the best modern biography of Wilde ... A terrific achievement' Evening Standard . 'Page-turning ... Vivid and ...Show more
Anthony Bourdain Remembered by CNN Staff
54.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
A moving and insightful collection of quotes, memories, and images celebrating the life of Anthony Bourdain When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, the outpouring of love from his fans around the world was momentous. Their tributes spoke to his legacy, confirming that the world is much smaller than we ...Show more
Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn
48.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015. John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. For the rest of his life he kept moving in and out of what was described as 'a stuporous state'. In 1923 he started making paintings ...Show more
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time by Anna Sherman
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In The Bells of Old Tokyo, Anna Sherman explores Japan and revels in all its wonderful particularity. As a foreigner living in Tokyo, Sherman's account takes pleasure and fascination in the history and culture of a country that can seem startlingly strange to an outsider. Following her search for the l ...Show more
Guinea Pig in White Wine Sauce by Alan Rochford
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Alan Rochford was living the dream when he started Stone Cottage, an idyllic French restaurant nestled in the Adelaide Hills. He had everything going for him apart from experience, money, and the first idea about what he was doing. After two years and one divorce, he began to see the funny side, fed on ...Show more
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
27.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scien ...Show more
Making History by Phillips Jock
45.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The story of one historian, and a country, awakening to New Zealands past. Men no longer whisper Revolution, they shout it; and they no longer carry banners, but throw bricks Letter home from Harvard, 1970. Jock Phillips grew up in post-war Christchurch where history meant Ancient Greece and home was En ...Show more
Somebody I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell
24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
How do you build a life when all that you know is changing?How do you conceive of love when you can no longer recognise those who mean the most to you? A phenomenal memoir - the first of its kind - Somebody I Used to Know is both a heart-rending tribute to the woman Wendy Mitchell once was, and a brave ...Show more
Sundowner of the Skies - Oscar Garden, The Forgotten Aviator by Mary Garden
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: new
In the early morning of 16 October 1930, Oscar Garden taxied his tiny open-cockpit Gipsy Moth across London's Croydon aerodrome and, with a wave of his hand to the only person there to farewell him, took off. He had carpet slippers on his feet and a packet of sandwiches on his lap. His plan was to fly t ...Show more
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?All Sloane wanted was to be admire ...Show more
The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: good-very good
The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenaline-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen- the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans- too big to police, and under no clear in ...Show more
Lowborn: Growing up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns by Kerry Hudson
37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns 'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense of ...Show more