Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals Observations from a Family Farm by Rosamund Young
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Be transported to the wild meadows of Kite's Nest Farm and peek into the surprising private lives of some of our most familiar of animals. A life-enhancing read from the author of the bestselling gem The Secret Life of Cows. We talk about people behaving like sheep, which assumes that sheep all behave ...Show more
The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s Most Infamous Cold Case by Kirsty Johnston, James Hollings
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
The unsolved mystery of who killed Jeanette and Harvey Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 continues to fascinate. It remains one of the most controversial cases in New Zealand legal history. The murders spawned two trials, two appeals, several books, a royal commission, a film, and - eventually - ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Norman - New Zealand's Lost Leader by Denis Welch
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Norman Kirk was Prime Minister for only 90 weeks but in the early 1970s he inspired us by leading a visionary government with a clear moral purpose. His work also defined New Zealand as a progressive small state with a deep internationalism which became central to our national identity. When he died, we ...Show more
The Twat Files: A hilarious sort-of memoir of mistakes, mishaps and mess-ups by Dawn French
$42.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last sixty years. Nincompoop. Nitwit. Lunatic. Dork. All lovely . . . but . . . nah . . . I prefer Twat. It's neat and it's accurate somehow. Because, yes, I am a Twat . . . sometimes. Aren't we all? THE TWAT ...Show more
Toy Fights: A Boyhood by Don Paterson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insanity of Dundee, sugar, religious mania, the sexual excesses of the Scottish club band scene and, more general ...Show more
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN. His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even o ...Show more
End Times by Rebecca Priestley
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
In the late 1980s, two teenage girls found refuge from a world of cosy conformity, sexism and the nuclear arms race in protest and punk. Then, drawn in by a promise of meaning and purpose, they cast off their punk outfits and became born-again Christians. Unsure which fate would come first - nuclear ann ...Show more
Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill: The Private and Personal Letters by All Sir Winston S.; Packwood Churchill
$43.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography | Series: Letters for the Ages Ser.
Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President ...Show more
The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carre was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait ...Show more
Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days by Victoria Bruce
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Hobbies
"I'm here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no matter what's happened to me, I'm not ready to lie down and die." In 2021, Victoria Bruce quit her corporate job, packed up her life and embarked on Te Araroa trail with her seven-year-old daughter, Emilie ...Show more
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
'Essential reading' Ai Weiwei' *** 'Deeply courageous' Philippe SandsA Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in historyIf you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, there's a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets, and one of on ...Show more