Sonic Life - A Memoir by Thurston Moore
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art - from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to the formation of his legendary rock group, to thirty years of creation, experimentation, and wonder. "Downtown scientists rejoice! F ...Show more
Boots on Mossies & Other Stories by Tim Gilbertson
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ
Boots on Mossies – Tim Gilbertson This unique memoir depicts the reality of the two world wars and of our soldiers who fought there. Drawing on recounted memories of those who were part of the action and the thoughts of those who heard them, Tim has created narratives that honour those memories. He ...Show more
Father and Son by Jonathan Raban
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
On 11 June 2011, three days short of his sixty-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban suffered a stroke which left him unable to use the right side of his body. Learning to use a wheelchair in a rehab facility outside Seattle and resisting the ministrations of the nurses overseeing his recovery, Raban began to ...Show more
A Brilliant Life : My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust by Rachelle Unreich
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed - which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around ...Show more
Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her power as a woman, and her discovery that a strong sense of self is every woman’s right and saving gr ...Show more
A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
With insight, humour, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and inc ...Show more
Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human exper ...Show more
Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J. King
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography
What compels a person to set out to sea? A solo sailor explores the exhilarating and frightening world of the wide ocean Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morn ...Show more
Robert Lord Diaries by Chris Brickell (Editor); Vanessa Manhire (Editor); Nonnita Rees (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ
‘Sometimes I wonder why I have been forced to spend my creative life grappling with words & the logic & rationality they demand … I wish I could find a way of reaching directly into another’s heart. Words are my only tool. Sometimes I think perhaps I have not worked hard enough. I am still alive ...Show more
Life Sentence - The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimores Deadliest Gang Leader by Mark Bowden
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Bestselling author Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offering an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader.
Elizabeth and Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy by Tessa Dunlop
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail 'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal Biographer She was 'sugar pink' innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins. The marriage of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions su ...Show more