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Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living by Glennon Doyle
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't ...Show more
The Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Simon Nye's TV series, The Durrells, is based loosely on Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy and in particular his much-loved bestseller, My Family and Other Animals. These books in turn are based somewhat loosely on actual events. The real-life Durrells went to Corfu at the urging of Lawrence Durrell, who w ...Show more
Finding Freedom Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Carolyn Durand; Omid Scobie
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
When news of the budding romance between a beloved English prince and an American actress broke, it captured the world's attention and sparked an international media frenzy. But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines – from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son ...Show more
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Juda ...Show more
Clothes... and Other Things That Matter (HB) by Alexandra Shulman
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Chosen by Evening Standard as one of the best books to look forward to in 2020. 'a must-read memoir for even those beyond the fashion set.' - Evening Standard Chosen by Stylist as one of 2020's best non-fiction books. 'In the funny and opinionated Clothes... and other things that matter, former Vogue U ...Show more
Debbie Harry: Face It by Debbie Harry
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
Debbie Harry has achieved a level of global success and iconic stature that is reserved for very few musicians, and even fewer women. Charismatic lead singer, critically acclaimed solo artist and style icon, her allure is endless and her legacy is enduring. In this, her first memoir, Debbie shares her r ...Show more
This Pakeha Life: An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha - and other New Zealanders - curious about their sen ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader by Madeleine Chapman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern is a leader for a new generation, one tired of inertia in the face of pressing issues such as climate change, immigration and the rise of far-right terrorism. Ardern was catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following the Chri ...Show more
Machete and the Ghost by James Griffin; Oscar Kightley
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: near fine
Lelei Lelei Jnr (aka Machete) and Neil Turnbull (aka The Ghost) came from very different backgrounds but when they eventually found each other they became the 2nd five/centre combination that ruled world rugby. On the pitch they were an unorthodox and mostly unstoppable team. On their day, when they wer ...Show more
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way--to the grimly bloody storie ...Show more
Where's Bowie? - Search for David Bowie in Berlin, Studio 54, Outer Space and More by Smith Street Books Staff; Kev Gahan; Rob Cowan (Illustrator)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Scour these intricately illustrated pages for our most beloved icon of pop culture, the late and great David Bowie. This book is a reverent and interactive homage to David Bowie, with dense illustrations of the many real and imagined universes of his own making. Hidden somewhere on each of these double ...Show more
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
''This book has found a special place in my heart. It''s as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it'' Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK ''Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, which moved and delighted me more tha ...Show more