Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003 - 2020 by David Sedaris
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunn ...Show more
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new so ...Show more
Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly by Jeremy Clarkson
$42.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Another year on the Diddly Squat Farm and Jeremy is still knee-deep in mud and endless challenges.Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm. Since taking the wheel three years ago Jeremy's had his work cut out. And it's now clear from hard-won experience that, when it comes to farming, there's only one golden rul ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
$16.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living on the breadline in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant ...Show more
Educated by Tara Westover
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't b ...Show more
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN. His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even o ...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
Enzo Ferrari: The definitive biography of an icon by Luca Dal Monte
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Soon to be an AppleTV+ series, Enzo uncovers a wealth of new facts about the origins, ambitions, and private life of Enzo Ferrari.Drawing on years of original research conducted in Italy and abroad, this book lays bare the hidden aspects of Ferrari's career. From his earliest failed business ventures, t ...Show more
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution by John Eidinow
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The thousands of academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her?This is the story of Esther Simpson, a remarkable woman history has largely forgotten, but whose selfless actions left an indelible mark on the cultural and intellectual ...Show more
Four Seasons in Rome - On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome...'Four Seasons in Rome' charts the repercussions of that day, describing Doerr's varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world, a ...Show more
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: The powerful memoir from the beloved star of Friends by Matthew Perry
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundsta ...Show more
Grayson Perry - The Pre-Therapy Years by Chris Stephens, Catrin Jones
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Grayson Perry was the first ceramicist to win the Turner Prize, the internationally renowned award for the best young British Artist. He rapidly established a unique brand as "the transvestite potter." This book examines the plates, pots, and statues from the 1980s to the mid-1990s with which he establi ...Show more