Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a r ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
39.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives by Matt Morgan
39.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? he thought to hims ...Show more
The Stirrings - A Memoir in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: the North of England in the 1970s and 80s. About the scorching summer of 1976 - the last Catherine Taylor would spend with both her parents in their home in Sheffield. About the Yorkshire Ripper, the ser ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change by Helen Brown
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cleo, a warm, wistful coming-of-age true story about the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the small stray cat who helped guide the way. It was 1966 and the times they were a-changing, even in the provincial New Zealand coastal town of New Plymo ...Show more
I Don't by Clementine Ford
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women ...Show more
Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond by Henry Winkler
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Henry Winkler, launched into prominence by his role as 'The Fonz' in the beloved TV series "Happy Days", has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny and widely regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the case, he's ju ...Show more
Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes
40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self Help/Philosophy
Join us on another unforgettable adventure through the extraordinary life and strong opinions of Miriam Margolyes. 'My new book is called Oh Miriam! - something that has been said to me a lot over the years, often in tones of strong disapproval. It contains lots more revelations and stories and discove ...Show more
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs (The Nobel Lecture) by Kazuo Ishiguro
14.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with his homeland of Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in t ...Show more
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
Soundings - Diving for stories in the beckoning sea by Kennedy Warne
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
For the past 40 years, Kennedy Warne, one of New Zealand's best-known nature writers and commentators, has been exploring the underwater world. His love of the ocean began as a small boy sailing and fishing with this father on the Hauraki Gulf and was further strengthened by a degree in marine biology. ...Show more