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The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A major new talent redefines the literature of rural life. Old world met new when a shepherd in the English Lake District impulsively started a Twitter account. A routine cell phone upgrade left author James Rebanks with a pretty decent camera and a pre-loaded Twitter app--the tools to share his way of ...Show more
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country', but there was far more to the Soong sisters than thes ...Show more
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
"Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again." -David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon One of the New York Times' "20 most antic ...Show more
Confessions of a Bookseller (HB) by Shaun Bythell
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms. Unfortunately, Shaun also has to c ...Show more
Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960 by Boyd, William
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The infamous literary hoax that fooled the art world On January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life's work. Four days later he jumped off a Staten Island ferry, killing himself. His body was never found. When William Boyd published his biography of Abstract Expressionist Nat Tate, ...Show more
Toymaker - A Life of Art, Wonder and Invention by Tom Karen
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Toy inventor and designer Tom Karen recounts his colourful and creative life through the objects and mementos that have come to define it. This is a story about life, about imagination, about being in the present and existing in the past; this is a story about painting, drawing, chopping and changing; a ...Show more
Uncrowned Queen - The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch by Nicola Tallis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
As the battle for royal supremacy raged between the houses of Lancaster and York, Margaret Beaufort, who was descended from Edward III and proved to be a critical threat to the Yorkist cause, was forced to give up her son - she would be separated from him for fourteen years. Surrounded by conspiracies i ...Show more
The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Trump's National Security Advisor took detailed notes. The result is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration from a senior advisor who had served three previous presidents over 30 years, with stunning revelations about happened inside the most powerful room in the nati ...Show more
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year Winner of the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Book of the Year Winner of Blackwell's Debut Book of the Year Winner of iBooks' Boo ...Show more
Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know by Ranulph Fiennes
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Even readers with a broadly low tolerance for macho heroism will find themselves gripped . . . compelling' - Time Out Sir Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of poun ...Show more