All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss
$67.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter. The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been s ...Show more
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia's leader by Philip Short
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The monumental biography of the most influential leader on the world stage in the last twenty years. Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his nei ...Show more
Test Pilot - An Extraordinary Career Testing Civil Aircraft by Chris Taylor
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Having flown an astonishing 400 different aircraft, as a licensed Category 1 test pilot and flight test instructor for both airplanes and helicopters, Chris Taylor is arguably one of the best qualified and widely experienced test pilots working today anywhere in the world.After obtaining his private pil ...Show more
The Times Lives Less Ordinary: Obituaries of the Eccentric, Unique and Undefinable by Farndale Nigel
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 80 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. Be they dons, pop stars, vicars, MPs, rugby players or aristocrats, each has marched to the beat of their own drum and led a life far from ordina ...Show more
Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
$41.00 NZD
Category: Biography
NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE For the first time ever a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized arou ...Show more
The Secret Heart: John le Carre: An Intimate Memoir by Suleika Dawson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life John le Carré led a life entirely constructed of secrets – not just in his first career, as a British spy and agent runner during the height of the Cold War or in his second, as a world-renow ...Show more
Downfall - The Destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
1920 New Zealanders were shocked by the news that the brilliant, well-connected mayor of genteel Whanganui had shot a young gay poet, D'Arcy Cresswell, who he thought was blackmailing him. They were then riveted by the trial that followed.Mackay was sentenced to hard labour and later left the country, o ...Show more
Always Going Home - Lauris and Frances Edmond, A mother-and-daughter story by Frances Edmond
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Always Going Home is the compelling personal story of Frances Edmonds relationship with her beloved, complicated, difficult mother, the award-winning poet Lauris Edmond (19242000). This book takes a more intimate look at areas of Lauriss private life than have been detailed in previous family histories ...Show more
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I had found this book earlier.' - The New York Times
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, ...Show more
Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity by Tana Wojczuk
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
All her life, Charlotte Cushman refused to submit to others' expectations. In a time when women were expected only to marry and raise children, she was "a lady universally acknowledged as the greatest living tragic actress," performing the male roles hi Shakespeare and classic plays alongside Edwin and ...Show more