The Queen by Andrew Morton
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind the scenes to uncover the woman and her world.
The Flying Nurse: Saving lives and swaddling babies from outback Australia to Africa and beyond by Prudence Wheelwright
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Nurse and midwife Prue Wheelwright has worked in the most remote parts of Australia and around the world. In isolated, far-flung locations and on dangerous frontlines, this passionate and dedicated nurse has put her heart, and often her safety, on the line, day after day, year after year. Prue shares al ...Show more
Mirrors of Greatness - Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him by David Reynolds
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age' ADAM ZAMOYSKIWinston Churchill followed his own star. He yearned to be 'great', to gain historical immortality. And he did so through deeds and words: his ...Show more
Taylor Swift: The Whole Story by Chas Newkey-Burden
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The updated story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world with her Eras tour. A small-town girl with incredible talent – and the strength and determination to realise her dream – Taylor Swift has gone from A ...Show more
You Called an Ambulance for What? by Tim Booth
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency call-out for someone short of breath turns out to be an adult man with a blocked nose. Far from beginner's luck, this turns out to be an omen for the rest of his paramedic career. Between the obligatory stories of objects lodged in body cavities to grown me ...Show more
The Stirrings - A Memoir in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: the North of England in the 1970s and 80s. About the scorching summer of 1976 - the last Catherine Taylor would spend with both her parents in their home in Sheffield. About the Yorkshire Ripper, the ser ...Show more
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today. An extraordinary personal and historical journey, Life is the story of a man ...Show more
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, t ...Show more
Bwana, There's a Body in the Bath by Peter Whitehead; Tony Park
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to save his family money. Alone and working in near slave-like conditions as a farm labourer, Peter learned the art of breaking wild horses and so began a lifelong ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more
The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World by Pico Iyer
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul ... A masterpiece' Elizabeth Gilbert 'A work of spiritual evolution [and] inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors' Washington Post One of our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and where we ...Show more
Deadly Quiet City: Stories From Wuhan, COVID Ground Zero by Murong Xuecun
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From one of China's most celebrated and silenced literary authors, Murong Xuecun, Deadly Quiet City is an unforgettable collection of true stories from the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. On 23 January 2020, Wuhan was placed in total lockdown. The city of eleven million – the centre of ...Show more