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The Beauty of Living Twice by Sharon Stone
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
In The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life, and the slow road back to wholeness and health. In an industry that doesn't accept failure, in a world where too many voices are silenced, Stone found the power to return, the courage to speak up, and the will to mak ...Show more
Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail: The Diary of a Country Vet by Danielle Hawkins
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Due April 2021 Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail is the funny, illuminating diary of a year in the life of a New Zealand farm vet. With a husband and two children, 1200 sheep and 400 cattle, farm dogs and pet lambs, pigs bent on excavation and a goat bent on escape, country life is never dull. From calving ...Show more
The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved i ...Show more
Glossy: The Inside Story of Vogue by Nina-Sophia Miralles
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Glossy is a story of more than a magazine. It is a story of passion and power, dizzying fortune and out-of-this-world fashion, of ingenuity and opportunism, frivolity and malice. This is the definitive story of Vogue. Vogue magazine started, like so many great things do, in the spare room of someone's ...Show more
Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman 'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald 'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree 'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell 'I was entrance ...Show more
Churchill and Son by Josh Ireland
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Fascinating... well-researched and well-written."--Andrew Roberts "Beautifully written... A triumph." - Damien Lewis "Fascinating, acute and touching."--Simon Sebag Montefiore We think we know ...Show more
The Barbizon by Paulina Bren
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and ...Show more
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Mary Hartnett (As told to)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg--"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion" (Harper's Bazaar). My ...Show more
Rainbow Revolutionaries by Sarah Prager
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
*A Junior Library Guild Selection* This groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused LGBTQ+ biography collection takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the lives of fifty influential queer figures who have made a mark on every century of human existence. Rainbow Revolutionaries brings to life the vibr ...Show more
Ghostland: in Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020 'A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature' Philip Hoare 'An exciting new voice' Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned ...Show more
Auschwitz Photographer: Based on the True Story of Prisoner 3444 Wilhelm Brasse by Luca Crippa; Maurizio Onnis
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times...' Wilhelm Brasse When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A ...Show more
Poisoner in Chief - Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s.The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer--the agency's "poisoner ...Show more