The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Vol. 1 - A Restless Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winner, chart-topping recording artist. 'The definitive, scrupulously researched biography of a life steeped in mystery' Observer. The definitive biography of one contemporary ...Show more
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age by Reid Mitenbuler
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II. Deep in the Arctic wilderness, Peter Freuchen awoke to find himself buried al ...Show more
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'A powerful, beautiful book. Its fierce love - of the land, the ocean, the elders and the ancestors - warms the heart and moves the spirit.' - Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming- ...Show more
The House With All The Lights On: Three generations, one roof, a language of light by Jessica Kirkness
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'If I were to tell you our story in sign language—the story of my grandparents and me—I'd begin with a single finger touching my chest.' Jessica Kirkness has traversed the boundary between deaf and hearing cultures all her life. Her memoir tells the story of her grandparents who grew up deaf in a he ...Show more
A Fortunate Woman - A Country Doctor’s Story by Polly Morland
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
‘Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry’ - Sunday Times ‘Contains a profound mesage for the future at a critical moment for general pratcice and us all’ - TLS A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insi ...Show more
Riverman: An American Odyssey by Ben McGrath
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
‘Brilliant, clear, and humane’ Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love ‘Miraculous and hopeful’ Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here ‘Quietly profound … belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild’ New York Times Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary m ...Show more
Walking Free: The Extraordinary True Story by Munjed Al Muderis; Patrick Weaver (As told to)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theater and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed in front of his staff. ...Show more
The Turning Tide - A Biography of the Irish Sea by Jon Gower
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water 'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle 'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular.'Times Literary Supplement The Turning Tide is a hymn to a sea passage of world-historical importance. ...Show more
Unbreakable by Ronnie O'Sullivan
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Reading this is like watching an O'Sullivan break: hypnotic, dazzling and impossible to tear yourself away from.' - STEPHEN FRY'Besides quite a few laughs, many readers will find recognition, reassurance, remedy and revelation in O'Sullivan's candid story. I highly recommend it.' - THE TIMES---In a car ...Show more
I Don't Need Therapy: (and other lies I've told myself) by Toni Lodge
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A hilarious memoir of home truths and whatever the opposite of 'that girl energy' is, from one half of the hit podcast Toni and Ryan. Most of us tell little white lies all the time. Whether it's 'I'm five minutes away' or 'It must have gone to my spam folder', most of these fibs are harmless. But what i ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Years by Ranulph Fiennes
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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