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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
My Mother and Other Secrets by Wendyl Nissen
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Uncovering old family secrets leads Wendyl Nissen to a better understanding of her mother.
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
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
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
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
Wild at Heart by Alienor le Gouvello
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
From the moment French-born Alienor encountered a pair of wild horses in the Australian outback, she was transfixed. Fiercely loved by some and considered a scourge by others, brumbies have a complicated place in Australian culture and history. Inspired to celebrate their character, Alienor tamed thre ...Show more
A Year at the Chateau by Dick Strawbridge; Angel Strawbridge
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
THE ENTERTAINING AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside, the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairytale château, complete with 45 rooms, ...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