The Stranger in the Woods: 'A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival' Wall Street Journal by Michael Finkel
$22.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Could you leave behind all that you know and live in solitude for three decades? This is the extraordinary story of the last true hermit - Christopher Knight. 'This was a breath-taking book to read and many weeks later I am still thinking about the implications for our soc ...Show more
The Strangest Man : The hidden life of Paul Dirac, quantum genius by Graham Farmelo
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize. Through h ...Show more
The Street Kid's Guide to Having It All by John Assaraf
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
No matter what you want in your life, "Having It All" will take you from where you are to where you want to be. Entrepreneur John Assaraf started with nothing and went on to create a multimillion-dollar empire and achieve the life of his dreams, earning himself the nickname "The Street Kid." Now he shar ...Show more
The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch by Paddy Manning
$37.87 NZD
Category: General Biography
The first major biography of Lachlan Murdoch, one of the world's most powerful and enigmatic people -- an epic saga of ruthless power plays and family battles. As heir apparent to the first global media dynasty, Lachlan Murdoch has been waiting to run his father Rupert's empire all his life. In this ri ...Show more
The Sum of our Days by ALLENDE, ISABEL
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home. Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, 'The House of the Spirits', was based on her Chilean childhood, a ...Show more
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton; Lara Love Hardin
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionA powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit."An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity."--Archbishop Desmo ...Show more
The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This title is presented with an Introduction by Stella Tillyyard. Louis XIV was during his reign the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and deployed his charm and talents for spin and intrigue to hold his court and country within h ...Show more
The Sun King: Rupert Murdoch in His Own Words by George Beahm
$18.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch has consolidated his hold over the media and wider political debate in the UK, America and Australia. According to Businessweek, his satellites deliver TV programs in five continents, all but dominating Britain, Italy, and wide swaths of Asia and the Middle Eas ...Show more
The Sun Kings by Hywel Williams
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Over the last 3000 years, the great 'sun kings' of history have dazzled the world with their ability to build empires and rule them absolutely, but equally with their shows of excess and opulence. Experts in the public display of power, they have identified their own authority as the basis of their coun ...Show more
The Supply Party: Ludwig Becker on the Burke and Wills Expedition by Martin Edmond
$42.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
The Burke and Wills expedition of 1860 was one of the best equipped expeditions of the Victorian era but it was doomed to a terrible fate. Much has been written about the leaders of this expedition but what do we know of other members of the party? In The Supply Party, Edmond takes the reader on a physi ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
"A wonderful story... It has all the ingredients of one of Patrick McGrath's icily stylish novels: madness, violence, arcane obsessions, weird learning, ghastly comedy" - John Banville, Literary Review. Two distinguished-looking Victorians, both learned and serious, yet from very different worlds: one a ...Show more
The Surprising Life of Constance Spry by Sue Shephard
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Most people today, if they have heard of her, associate Constance Spry with the cookery book bearing her name. But Connie was much, much more than the author of a bestselling cookery book. She was deeply unconventional, extremely charming and very determined; Spry's life took her from the back streets o ...Show more