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Bus Stops on the Moon: Red Mole Days, 1974-1980 by Martin Edmond
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Bus Stops on the Moon is a personal and a cultural history. As memoir, it is a sequel to The Dreaming Land (2015). A troubled and restless young Martin Edmond is on his way to becoming the wiser, older man who will sit down and write both narratives. As cultural history, the book gives us a participant' ...Show more
Leonard Cohen: Untold Stories - The Early Years by Michael Posner
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories Ser.
The extraordinary life of one of the world's greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best. Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon--there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, entertaining and inspi ...Show more
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my car ...Show more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron de Hart
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'A vivid account of a remarkable life' --The Washington Post In this bestselling comprehensive, revelatory biography -- fifteen years of interviews and research in the making -- historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg's passion for justice, her adv ...Show more
Lockdown: Tales from Aotearoa by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Like scenes from a science fiction novel, COVID-19 spread like a dark storm across planet Earth. When the virus came to the faraway islands of Aotearoa New Zealand, the nation’s team of five million went into lockdown. Nineteen of the best graphic and comic artists from around Aotearoa New Zealand have ...Show more
The Real Beatrix Potter by Nadia Cohen
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The Real Beatrix Potter is a fascinating and revealing biography of one of the world's most cherished children's authors.Beatrix Potter's famous little white books have enchanted generations of young readers who adored the characters she created and of course her own distinctive illustrations.Born into ...Show more
Oscar Garden : An Adventurous Aviator by ANNAMARIA. GARDEN
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Arrivals
One day in 1930, a man walked into a department store in London and bought an aeroplane. Having just learned to fly, Oscar Garden dreamed of flying to Australia. In his newly purchased aeroplane, he did just that. This adventure and myriad others this risk-taker embarked on are recounted in this book. O ...Show more
Bosie - A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Lord Alfred Douglas, known as 'Bosie', son of the Marquess of Queensberry, was known as one of the most beautiful young men of his generation. Aged twenty-one he met and became the lover and subsequent obsession of Oscar Wilde. Their relationship caused a scandal in 1895 when Wilde took Queensberry, Do ...Show more
My Life in Red and White by Arsene Wenger
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
For the very first time, world-renowned and revolutionary football manager Arsène Wenger tells his own story. He opens up about his life, sharing principles for success on and off the field with lessons on leadership, and vivid tales of his 22 years managing Arsenal to unprecedented success. There, Weng ...Show more
Like Father Like Son by Michael Parkinson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father John William was, and remains, a family love sto ...Show more
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant ride, it's in those wildflowers dancing on their way to ...Show more
Out of the Forest by Gregory Smith
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
For years a man calling himself Will Power lived in near-total isolation in northern New South Wales, foraging for food, eating bats and occasionally trading for produce. But who was this mysterious man who roamed the forest and knew all of its secrets and riddles? Some people thought he might be Jesus ...Show more
