1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? Here at last is an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. First published 2005.
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its hone ...Show more
Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones by Dolly Parton
$95.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
A beautifully illustrated celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive. In Behind the Seams My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the firs ...Show more
Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine
$175.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine is the landmark magnum opus every Bob Dylan fan has been waiting for since the 60s: lavishly illustrated with hundreds of previously unseen photographs and spanning from Dylan's childhood in Hibbing, Minnesota, to the Nobel Prize for Literature and beyond, this is a tre ...Show more
Dame Suzy D: My Story by Susan Devoy
$37.99 NZD
Category: NZ biography
A four-time world squash champion, Dame Susan Devoy has led a remarkably varied life. She's been Race Relations Commissioner, a television star, a newspaper columnist, raised four boys and met Bill Clinton and King Charles. Fiercely driven and wildly competitive, her straight up style and hilarious turn ...Show more
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
$69.99 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and art ...Show more
Excommunicated - A multi-generational story of leaving the Exclusive Brethren by Craig Hoyle
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: near fine
A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren. After coming out as gay as a teenager, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren. The conservative sect was everything he'd ever known - a childhood where television, po ...Show more
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
$59.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular financial collapses 'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the ...Show more
Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. ...Show more
I Don't Take Requests by Tony Marnoch, Michael Hennegan
$29.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER AND WINNER OF THE ATTITUDE BOOK AWARD 'Refreshing, inspiring and candid.' ATTITUDE 'I love this man so much. He was, and always will be, my knight in shining Westwood.' DAVINA MCCALL'This is a story that should never have been told' KATE MOSS 'The perfect beach read' THE SUNDA ...Show more
I Love My Stupid Life: Eat Lit Food And Other Tasty Exploits by Albert Cho
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Biting, pungent, salty and - yes - sweet, too, this is the true story of Albert Cho's life in food and the paramount place of food in his life. Writer Albert Cho has lived through a lot already - from the bland suburban Kiwi racism and heady dairy lolly-bag runs of his childhood to sexual abuse; from th ...Show more