The Heart of Jesus Valentino by Emma Gilkison
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
During a routine 12-week scan, Emma Gilkison thinks it looks as though her unborn baby has a marble rolling on his chest. In fact, it is his heart growing outside his body - an extremely rare and fatal condition called ectopia cordis. Emma and her partner Roy now face two heartbreaking options. Should t ...Show more
Collecting the World - The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten. Born in the north of Ireland, Sloane made his fortune as a physici ...Show more
SALE - Steve Jobs - A Biographic Portrait by Kevin Lynch
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a stunning visual guide to the life and works of entrepreneur Steve Jobs. Easily one of the most influential innovators of the twenty-first century, Steve Jobs has fundamentally shaped the way in which we communicate and, even more broadly, live our lives.In this information-packed graphic biogr ...Show more
Eddie Jones - Rugby Maverick by Mike Colman
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The first biography of the enigmatic coach who has completely transformed the England rugby team. After Eddie Jones began coaching England's rugby team in November 2015, they won 22 of their next 23 matches. The side that limped out of the last World Cup was thoroughly revitalised. But who is the uncon ...Show more
Germaine: The Life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
As a student in Melbourne, Elizabeth Kleinhenz heard frequent talk of this almost mythical figure, Germaine Greer. Urged on by her mother, a first wave feminist, she read The Female Eunuch, a clarion call that rallied women to assert their female power,and, like her mother and millions of others across ...Show more
In Extremis - The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ** 'It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.' Marie Colvin, 2001 Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a trou ...Show more
Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy by Benjamin Balint
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend and champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil Kafka's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of his life to canonizing Kafka as the most prescient chronicler of the twentieth century. By betraying Kafk ...Show more
Can You Ever Forgive Me? - Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy--Lee Israel's hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Noel Coward, and many others. ...Show more
In Pieces by Sally Field
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
'A memoir as soulful, wryly witty, and lyrical as it is candid and courageous' - Booklist, starred review'Impressive, candid and vivid' The Times 'Beautifully written' Sunday TimesSally Field is one of the most celebrated, beloved and enduring actors of our time, and now she tells her story for the fi ...Show more
Vita and Virginia: A Double Life by Sarah Gristwood
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world's most famous writers - a leading light of literary modernism and feminism - and a British icon. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sa ...Show more
Freedom Fighter: My War Against ISIS on the Frontlines of Syria by Joanna Palani
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The gripping story of one woman's war against ISIS on the frontlines of Syria.
The White Darkness by David Grann
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's The Lost City of Z'A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration' Sunday Times on The Lost City of Z'Marvellous ... An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones' Daily Telegr ...Show more