Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
An insightful and moving biography detailing the extraordinary life of award-winning and bestselling author Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his friend, former assistant, and now head of the author's literary estate. At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terr ...Show more
The Quiet Hero: Andrew Bagshaw by Philip Matthews
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Genetic scientist Andrew Bagshaw put his life on hold to help the people of Ukraine. His selfless actions would cost him his life. This is his story. Andrew Bagshaw was many things - a genius-level geneticist, keen cricketer and sailor, private pilot, much-loved son, brother and uncle, as well as a hug ...Show more
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir 'Masterful, captivating, page-turning, this is solid gold history at its best.' - Nicola Tallis '(A) thought-provoking, impeccably researched, and moving account uncovering how Anne's family, intel ...Show more
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographersHow did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to ...Show more
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici by Estelle Paranque
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history' Tracy Borman'Exciting and compelling, packed full of tantalising details of diplomacy and court life, Paranque succeeds both in bringing history to life, but also in putting flesh on the bones of these two extraordinary women a ...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
Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde (Korero Series) by Paula Morris & Haru Sameshima
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Korero Ser.
A UNIQUE STORY BOOK FOR GROWN-UPS. Shining Land brings together award-winning novelist Paula Morris and distinguished photographer Haru Sameshima. It is the second in the kōrero series of picture books edited by Lloyd Jones, written and made for grown-ups, and designed to showcase leading New Zealand wr ...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