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Fifty Years a Feminist by Sue Kedgley
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A pioneering New Zealand feminist reflects on fifty years of feminism. In 1971 Sue Kedgley and a group of other young feminists carried a coffin into Auckland’s Albert Park to protest against decades of stagnant advancement for New Zealand women since they won the right to vote in 1893. From that day, s ...Show more
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
Sonny Bill Williams: You Can't Stop the Sun from Shining by Sonny Bill Williams, Alan Duff
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography
For the first time ever, sporting legend Sonny Bill Williams is telling his story. Working with Alan Duff, award-winning author of Once Were Warriors, this will be the must-read autobiography of the year. Sonny Bill Williams (SBW) is a once in a hundred-year athlete with immense sporting talent in Rugb ...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
Still Standing: What I've learnt from a life lived differently by Jessica Quinn
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Jess Quinn's inspirational memoir tells her story of losing her leg to cancer as a nine-year-old and how she's come to an acceptance of this and turned it into a quest to help others. Jess Quinn is, in her own words, quite literally a walking miracle. Her body has been completely restructured so that s ...Show more
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A legendary conservationist. A lifetime spent fighting for nature. An indispensable message of hope. The world-renowned naturalist and conservationist Jane Goodall has spent more than a half-century warning of our impact on our planet. From her famous encounters with chimpanzees in the forests of Gombe ...Show more
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Shortlisted - Booker Prize 2021 A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet or what she terms 'the portal'. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing thi ...Show more
My Remarkable Journey by Joylette Hylick, Katherine Johnson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a century of turmoil and change. In 2015, at the age of 97, Katherine ...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
Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth by David Attenborough
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt t ...Show more
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and irresistible memoir of life in and out of the kitchen Before Stanley Tucci became a household name with The Devil Wears Prada, The Hunger Games, and the perfect Negroni, he grew up in an Italian American family that spent e ...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
