Around the World in 80 Years by Ranulph Fiennes
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
He's climbed Everest not long after a heart bypass operation, he's run seven marathons on seven continents, he's hauled loaded sledges across both polar ice caps and he's circumnavigated the earth...Ran Fiennes truly is the world's greatest explorer, and this book celebrates his 80th birthday by showcas ...Show more
Lunch with the FT (Financial Times) A Second Helping by Lionel Barber
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Lunch with the FT has been a permanent fixture in the Financial Times for almost 30 years, featuring presidents, film stars, musical icons and business leaders from around the world.The column is now a well-established institution, which has reinvigorated the art of conversation in the convivial, intima ...Show more
Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait'- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times'A model of how to combine biographical information, analysis ...Show more
Everest Mountain Guide: The Remarkable Story of a Kiwi Mountaineer by Guy Cotter
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The book follows the career of Guy Cotter, Kiwi mountaineer and mountain guide, who has been leading guided ascents of Mt Everest from the early 1990’s. Everest Mountain Guide is an authentic and riveting behind-the-scenes insight into what actually transpires on the mountain, the huge challenges faced ...Show more
The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carre was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait ...Show more
Lawrence of Arabia: The definitive 21st-century biography of a 20th-century soldier, adventurer and leader by Ranulph Fiennes
$42.00 NZD
Category: Biography
An enthralling and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the inspiration for the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes Co-opted by the British military, archaeologist and adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence became involved in the 1916 Arab Revol ...Show more
American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific ...Show more
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
$70.00 NZD
Category: Biography
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and art ...Show more
Putin by Philip Short
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'A perfect mirror to its subject... should be compulsory reading' ObserverVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.He has the power to reduce the West to nuclear ashes. He invades his neighbours, meddles in western elections and orders assassinations. Yet many Russians continue to support him. Under Putin ...Show more
On Peter Carey: Writers on Writers by Sarah Krasnostein
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Award-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned Kelly of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Carey, who moved from Australia to America, conjured Kelly after seeing Sidney Nolan's paintings of the bushranger at the Met. In this moving essay Krasnostein, ...Show more
Helena Rubinstein: The Australian Years by Angus Trumble
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The captivating story of the first global cosmetics empire, the fascinating woman who built it, and the past she preferred to leave behind This meticulously researched and wryly entertaining portrait of Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965) focuses on the years she spent in Australia as a young woman, recoveri ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more