Nine Lives - New Zealand Writers on Notable New Zealanders
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A selected group of NZ writers have chosen a favourite New Zealander to write an essay on. These pieces are personal, illuminating and often moving. Around 5,000 words per essay, the writers had full choice on who to write about and what approach to take, so there is great variety in the styles. Writers ...Show more
Perfection: The Life and Times of Sir William Manchester by Earle Brown
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
From country boy to internationally renowned plastic surgeon, from junior medical officer to Lieutenant Colonel in just four years, "Perfection: the life and times of Sir William Manchester" covers a life of achievement and service. Hailing from small beginnings in rural Waimate, William Manchester beca ...Show more
Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain's Greatest Pilot by Paul Beaver
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Pre-order the extraordinary life storyof Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - aviator, record-breaker, and Britain's greatest pilot.
Alasdair MacIntyre - An Intellectual Biography by Émile Perreau-Saussine; Nathan J. Pinkoski (Translator); Pierre Manent (Foreword by)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Biography
"Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by Émile Perreau-Saussine seeks to defend the Scottish philosopher's standing as one of the most profound theorists of capitalist modernity on either side of the Atlantic. . . . For Perreau-Saussine, the central intellectual problems with which MacIntyre wa ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$39.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa by Cato Pedder
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Moederland is a courageous and modern appraisal of what it means to be descended from the people who created the ultraracist apartheid system in South Africa. Illuminating its turbulent history through the lives of her female ancestors, it is a history of South Africa like no other, told from the perspe ...Show more
Lives of the Wives - Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Nonfiction of the Year One of PEOPLE's Top 10 Books of the Year "Delicious and infuriating...unputdownable." --Sadie Stein, New York Times "A compulsively readable book." --Wall Street Journal In Lives of the Wives, author Carmela Ci ...Show more
Counterfeit Countess (Janina Mehlberg) The untold story of the Jewish heroine who defied the Holocaust by Elizabeth B White, Joanna Sliwa
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A fascinating biography of the incredible Janina (Pepi Spinner) Mehlberg, a German-Jewish mathematician who saved the lives of many inmates of the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp at Lublin in Poland during the Second World War - which she did by posing as a bogus Polish aristocrat named Co ...Show more
Bob Crowder - A New Zealand Organics Pioneer by Matt Morris
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Bob Crowder: A New Zealand organics pioneer, by leading garden historian Matt Morris, tells the story of Bob Crowder's life and his role in the birth of the organics movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. Growing up in wartime Britain, the peaceful pursuit of gardening was young Bob's refuge. He later became ...Show more
Finding Frank: The lfife of Frank Erceg - New Zealand dear hunter, mountaineer, photographer by Louise Maich
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography
By 1965 at the age of thirty, Frank Erceg had established an impressive reputation as a marksman, mountaineer and photographer, with his work widely published in newspapers and magazines of the day. That same year, Frank and his mate Johnny Cumming were killed in New Zealand’s first helicopter hunting ...Show more
Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor by Roger Lewis
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsom ...Show more