All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
Bibliomaniac by Robin Ince
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
In this warm and witty celebration of the written word, the popular comedian and presenter takes the reader on a journey across Britain as he explores his lifelong love of books and bookshops. Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with Professor Bri ...Show more
The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society by Anna Neima
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' - Sunday Times' Thanks to Neima's rigorous research, each chapter offers something new.' - Spectator'Neima ranges with impressive confidence across the world'. - Literary Review Santiniketan-Sriniketan ...Show more
Here For a Good Time - Organised thoughts from a disorganised mind by Chris Parker
$36.99 NZD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
Comedian Chris Parker brings his brilliant comic wit to the page. Star of stand-up, winner of Celebrity Treasure Island and lockdown Instagram sensation, Chris Parker shares a series of short stories, essays and musings. Chris has made a name for himself as an outspoken, witty and charming personality w ...Show more
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
$24.99 NZD
Category: Entertainment
The global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller and artist finally tells the unfiltered story of her life in <i>The Meaning of Mariah Carey</i>. It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to ...Show more
Be My Baby by Ronnie Spector
$39.99 NZD
Category: Entertainment
Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, Be My Baby is the true story of how Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ronnie Spector carved out a space for herself against tremendous odds amid the chaos of the 1960s music scene and beyond. Ronnie Spector’s first collaborat ...Show more
Michael Jordan: Life Lessons from His Airness by David H. Lewis
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
From author David H. Lewis and illustrator Gilang Bogy, Michael Jordan: Life Lessons from His Airness contains the secrets to success from the greatest basketball player of all time.“Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.”Michael Jordan defied gravity, transcended the world’s expectatio ...Show more
How to Be a Refugee - One Family's Story of Exile and Belonging by Simon May
$24.99 NZD
Category: Political
'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review' Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a memoir of family secrets with a ruminative twist, o ...Show more
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert
$24.99 NZD
Category: General
The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerWith a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales'A stunningly moving book about the power of hope and love to overcome the very worst of mankind' Piers MorganWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he'd ...Show more
Party Hopper by Peter McCardle
$35.00 NZD
Category: Political
“I’ve found over the many years that, when elections come along, I just sit still at my Beehive desk, buy a coffee, the people around me all change, and I just carry on.” This is the story of Peter McCardle’s journey through the last thirty years in New Zealand politics. Beginning as a National MP, then ...Show more
Rose: The Extraordinary Story of Rose de Freycinet: Wife, Stowaway and the First Woman to Record her Voyage Around the World by Suzanne Falkiner
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who defied the French for love. In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married handsome naval officer Louis de Freycinet, fifteen years her senior. Three years later, unable to bear parting from her husband, she dre ...Show more
Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa by Chris Tse & Emma Barnes (Editors)
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: near fine
A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness, and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you’re hidden? Aotearoa is a land o ...Show more