The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Payne Les Payne Tamara
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Ma ...Show more
JFK: Volume 1: 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
$35.00 NZD
$38.00 (7% off)
Category: Biography
The definitive biography of JFK, from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's much-garlanded masterpiece- 'The most compelling biography I have read in years' Max Hastings By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the ...Show more
Comrade - Bill Andersen - A Communist, Working-Class Life by Cybèle Locke
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Bill Andersen was one of the most significant figures in New Zealand's trade union movement in the later twentieth century. Cybele Locke's biography recovers the relationships between communism and working class trade unionism during World War Two and the following decades. Starting with Bill's experien ...Show more
The Wild Twins: Tales of Strength and Survival by Amber Shine; Serena Shine
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Twin hunters Amber and Serena Shine on strength, survival and a lifetime seeking adventure The impala was past the barrier of branches and there was only a metre to go before it got to the water's edge. It had to be over 35 metres away, but we were desperate. Amber whispered, 'Hold it . . . hold it . ...Show more
Bourdain: In Stories by Laurie Woolever
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography
When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. From 1936 to 1940, the newly-wed George Orwell lived in a small cottage in Hertfordshire, writing, and tending his garden. When Rebecca Solnit visited the ...Show more
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, the father of science fiction, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H.G Wells' life shape a fantastic writer into a visionary? Claire Tomalin's remarkable and empathetic biography, focusing on HG Wells' early l ...Show more
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The official biography of the award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate. 'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.' At the time of his death in 201 ...Show more
Ornament and Silence - Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer by Kennedy Fraser
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
"A brilliant collection.... Ms. Fraser does the greatest honor a writer can do people: she brings them alive". -- The New York Times Book Review Kennedy Fraser brings to the fourteen essays in this indispensable volume the sensitivity, freshness of observation, and offhand elegance that made her fashio ...Show more
The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's greatest explorer by Peter FitzSimons
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary, must-read story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist, photographer, war hero, aviator, spy and daredevil - brought to life by Australia's greatest storyteller. Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who ever lived ...Show more
Eleanor by David Michaelis
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The New York Times bestseller from prizewinning author David Michaelis presents a "stunning" (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one ...Show more
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The true story of the woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The thrilling and previously unknown story of the woman who led the largest anti-Nazi resistance group in Germany. Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding sec ...Show more