Astor: The Rise And Fall Of An American Fortune by Anderson Cooper
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvent ...Show more
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the fight for women in science by Kate Zernike
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The story of how a group of determined, brilliant women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. It shows that real power is collective power and that speaking up and allying yourself with likeminded others is one of the key pathways to change. This is ...Show more
README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women. In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card ...Show more
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An insightful and moving biography detailing the extraordinary life of award-winning and bestselling author Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his friend, former assistant, and now head of the author's literary estate. At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terr ...Show more
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt
31.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns ...Show more
Cold-Water Eden by Richie Fitzgerald
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world’s most captivating big-wave surfing destinations. Born and raised in Bundoran, with the waves of the west coast of Ireland breaking at his doorstep, Richie Fitzgerald was moulded by his envi ...Show more
Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time an ...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
The Girl in the Green Dress by Jeni Haynes, George Blair-West
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I didn't know that you're only supposed to have one personality. I didn't realise that having lots of voices in your head was abnormal. But you are protecting yourself. You are protecting your soul, and that's what I did.'An intelligent, poised woman, Jeni Haynes sat in court and listened as the man wh ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy #1) by Gerald Durrell
26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell.Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Ge ...Show more
Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky by Caro Giles
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The most beautiful and inspiring memoir you'll read in 2023TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Northumberland skies.Caro Giles lives on the far edge of the country, with her tribe of daughters: The Mermaid, The Whirlwind, The Caulbearer and The ...Show more
Remainders of the Day - More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the ant ...Show more