The Myers by Paul Goldsmith & Michael Bassett
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
The Myers is a sweeping study of four generations of the Myers family. It moves from Prussian Poland to the goldfields of Ballarat to bankruptcy in the South Island and then to a growing fortune in beer and liquor. It tells the story of local government involvement by the first two generations, and the ...Show more
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Art Bechstein steps out of the library into the summer of his graduation year. Not yet ready for respectability, he falls in with the exotic, charming Arthur Lecomte, and ricochets between a homosexual relationship and an intense affair with a strange and beautiful girl called Phlox. Before long, the wo ...Show more
The Mystery of Olga Chekhova by Antony Beevor
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: good
In his latest work, Antony Beevor--bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem and one of our most respected historians of World War II--brings us the true, little-known story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova, a stunning Russian beauty, was the niece of playwrigh ...Show more
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connection ...Show more
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This is the flamboyant autobiography of the uninhibited and wonderful Quentin Crisp.Quentin Crisp was a true original. With his mauve hair and flamboyant sense of style, by the time of his death he was widely hailed as one of the great British eccentrics. An openly gay man in a less tolerant era (he onc ...Show more
The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer
$32.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There sh ...Show more
The Necessary Aptitude : A Memoir by Pam Ayres
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Author Tour 1 - 6 November 2011. An eagerly-awaited country childhood memoir by one of Britain's most-loved personalities. Pam Ayres is one of Britain's best-loved personalities. She appears regularly on TV and radio, and has her own Radio 4 programme Ayres on the Air. She performs her solo stage show ...Show more
The Nehrus and the Gandhis : An Indian dynasty (3rd ed, 2004) by Tariq Ali
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Newly revised, this is a major and authoritative work on one of India's greatest families. The Nehrus are a dynasty without precedent in the modern world; nowhere else and at no other time in recent history has a single family wielded such enduring and pervasive power over the country - and the electora ...Show more
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery by Barbara K.Lipska
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'Oliver Sacks-meets-When Breath Becomes Air ... Barbara Lipska's remarkable story illuminates the many mysteries of our fragile yet resilient brains.' LISA GENOVA, bestselling author of Still Alice and Every Note PlayedIn January 2015 renowned neuroscientist Barbara Lipska's melanoma spread to her brain ...Show more
The New Philanthropists : The new generosity by Charles B. Handy
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Who are the new philanthropists? And how is their philanthropy 'new'? In this remarkable and inspiring book, the eminent management writer Charles Handy and his wife Elizabeth, a portrait photographer, have collaborated to portray a new generation of practical philanthropists, men and women who have mad ...Show more
The New Tsar : The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
$29.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
An epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most conflicted and important leaders. Former New York TimesMoscow Bureau Chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Putin since well before the recent events in the Ukraine, and gives us the fullest and m ...Show more
The Night Dragon by Matthew Condon
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
. . . he is hard to frighten . . . he is very methodical . . . he does not like sunlight because he is very fair-skinned . . . he has the tattoo of St George and the Dragon . . . - Witness statement given to the Crime Intelligence Unit, Brisbane, 1974. In 2017, Vincent O'Dempsey, along with his accomp ...Show more