The Lazy Girl's Guide to Living a Beautiful Life by Matilda Rice
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Written in her chatty and approachable style, this is a refreshing, positive guide to life for young women. Matilda emphasises having fun and being yourself.She includes her favourite recipes and some great exercises and workouts you can do easily at home plus heaps of great advice on skincare, beauty a ...Show more
The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian
$23.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
*Soon to be a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, coming May 2018* Ella and John have shared a wonderful life for more than sixty years. Now they're on the run from their doctors and middle-aged children, who just want them to go gently into that undignified night of old ag ...Show more
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, a young Palestinian man and two friends ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes, from which they and their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. One cousin had th ...Show more
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, three young Palestinian men ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes, from which they and their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. One cousin had the door slamm ...Show more
The Letters of Noel Coward by Noel Coward
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Diaries, Letters and Essays | Reading Level: very good
With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished - this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure. Coward's multi-faceted talent as an actor, writer, composer, producer and even as a war-time spy, brought him into close contact with the great, the good an ...Show more
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
"My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I can't but write it in the present tense." Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family ...Show more
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood by Bill Bryson
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Bryson
"Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.' In this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s Middle America. It was a happy time, when almost everything w ...Show more
The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
$60.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Mo ...Show more
The Life Of Graham Greene (Vol.3: 1955-1991) by Norman Sherry
$79.95 NZD
Category: General Biography
This third and final volume of Norman Sherry's biography takes Graham Greene from the very real peril of Cuba to the rigours of the Belgian Congo, through tumultuous Haiti, Nicaragua and Panama, his confrontation with the French mafia, and then into Spain, up to a quiet death at 86, in Switzerland. Sher ...Show more
The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren - The Biography by Paul Gorman
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
'This masterful and painstaking biography opens its doorway to an era of fluorescent disenchantment and outlandish possibility' Alan Moore Malcolm McLaren was one of the most culturally significant but misunderstood figures of the modern era. Ten years after his life was cruelly cut short by cancer, The ...Show more
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd by Finlay Macdonald
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd is both a tale of remarkable success and a window into a brilliant creative mind.Finlay Macdonald's beautifully told, visually gorgeous biography of Dame Lynley Dodd and her creation, the rascally dog Hairy Maclary. 'A visual delight' NZ Listener's 100 Best Books of 2013' ...Show more
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd by Finlay Macdonald
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
Dame Lynley Dodd is New Zealand's best known author and illustrator of children's books. Her career was launched in 1973 with the publication of My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes, which she collaborated on with cousin Eve Sutton. Other picture books soon followed and in 1983 the world famous Hairy Maclary f ...Show more