Words and Pictures - Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition by Jenny Uglow
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
As children, learning to read, we look first at the illustrations - but how do these tell their stories differently from the words? Words & Pictures explores this question through three encounters between writers and artists. It looks at how artists have responded to two great, contrasting works, Pa ...Show more
Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes
$55.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: near fine
It's a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives - from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan.In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed bestseller, Working Class Bo ...Show more
Writing Life - Twelve New Zealand Authors by Deborah Shepard
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
A unique, candid and intimate survey of the life and work of 12 of our most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip Temple, David Hill, Joy Cowley, Vincent O'Sullivan, Albert Wendt, Marilyn Duckworth, Chris Else, Fiona Kidman and Witi Ihimaera. Constructed as Q&As with ...Show more
Year of the Monkey: The New York Times bestseller by Patti Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
'Magical' GUARDIAN'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence - expressed with Smith's signature poetic flair' VOGUE'Extraordinary ... A tense, teasing mix of reality and dream' Sunday Times'A melancholy mood and poetic language distinguish Smith's third memoir' BBC'Her willingness ...Show more
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Part memoir, part 'missive-from-the-middle', Yes Please is a hilarious collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, haikus and words-to-live-by drawn from the life and mind of acclaimed actress, writer and comedian Amy Poehler. Yes Please finds Amy riffing on everything from sex and love to motherhood, famil ...Show more
Yoshitomo Nara by Yeewan Koon
$200.00 NZD
Category: General
The definitive book on the life and career of internationally acclaimed artist Yoshitomo NaraYoshitomo Nara rose to prominence in the mid-1990s, a star in a generation of avant-garde Japanese artists associated with the neo-Pop 'Superflat' movement. This book, made in close collaboration with Nara himse ...Show more
You Are Always with Me: Letters to Mama by Frida Kahlo by Frida Kahlo; Héctor Jaimes (Translator)
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Frida Kahlo is regarded as one of Mexico's greatest painters: her extraordinary personal style, her tragic story, her relationship with Diego Rivera (the more famous painter in their day) alongside her passionate paintings have made her a cult figure since she died over sixty years ago. But beyond the ...Show more
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone - The Biography of Nico by Jennifer Otter-Bickerdike
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
'What I have in common with Nico is the understanding of her furious frustration at not being recognised.' - Marianne Faithfull Over the course of her life, Nico was an ever-evolving myth, an enigma that escaped definition. Though she is remembered for contributions to The Velvet Underground & Nico, ...Show more
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The never-before-told story of three women who courageously reported from the frontlines of the Vietnam War. One spent twenty-three days in captivity. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Ka ...Show more
You Never Know: A Memoir by Tom Selleck
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way. Frank, funny and open-hearted, Y ...Show more
Young Queen by Parris Goebel
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Crazy. Bold. Fearless. Parris Goebel was destined to make her mark. Young Queen is the autobiography of a dancer with a dream . . . a young Polynesian girl who grew up in New Zealand and went on to conquer the hip hop world. In this honest memoir, Parris Goebel shares the extraordinary story of how s ...Show more
Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire by Walter Marsh
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
For half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarising patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all start? In September 1953, 22-year-old Rupert Murdoch landed in Adelaide, South Australia. Fresh from Oxford with a radical reputati ...Show more