Prince Harry: The Inside Story by Duncan Larcombe
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Prince Harry has made headlines all over the world with his unruly antics, but instead of being side-lined as the House of Windsor's biggest liability, Prince Henry of Wales has emerged as the jewel in the crown of the modern British Monarchy. Today Harry is the most popular member of the monarchy after ...Show more
Facing Ali: 15 Stories 15 Fighters by Stephen Brunt
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Muhammed Ali cast a blinding light onto his sport, on the tumultuous times he in part initiated and on all of those who surrounded him. That includes the fighters brave enough to stand alone, across the ring from the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Ali's own story has been told again and agai ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: TV Tie-In by Rebecca Skloot
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, NOW AN HBO FILM STARRING OPRAH WINFREY & ROSE BYRNE"No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book" Hilary Mantel, The GuardianHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco far ...Show more
Managing My Life: My Autobiography by Alex Ferguson
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
This book is about the beginning of Sir Alex's football career, until the year 2000. 1999 was an outstanding year for Alex Ferguson - not only did he lead Manchester United, the most glamorous club in the world, to a unique and outstanding treble triumph, but he was awarded the highest honour for his sp ...Show more
Marilyn in Manhattan - Her year of joy by Elizabeth Winder
47.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
In Manhattan, the most famous woman in the world can wander the streets unbothered, spend hours at the Met getting lost in art, and afternoons buried in the stacks of the Strand. Marilyn begins to live a life of the mind in New York; she dates Arthur Miller, dances with Truman Capote and drinks with Car ...Show more
From Cradle to Stage by Virginia Hanlon Grohl
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
Virginia Grohl, mother of Dave Grohl, had not seen any of it coming. Not the arenas of screaming fans, not Nirvana or the Foo Fighters, not the induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and certainly not her son, Dave, performing with Sir Paul McCartney at The White House. Theirs had always been a ...Show more
No Place to Lay One's Head: With a Preface from Patrick Modiano by Francoise Frenkel
38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
A bitter, beautiful and important bookRobert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENTThe French sensation, now in English translation.Fran oise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving ...Show more
Keith Richards - Life by Keith Richards
14.99 NZD
29.99 (50% off)
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
As lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics, and the songs that roused the world. A true and towering original, he has always walked his own path, spoken his mind, and done things his own way. Now at last Richards pauses to tell his story in the most anticipated ...Show more
Air Kiss and Tell: Memoirs of a Blow-up Doll by Charlotte Dawson
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Air Kiss and Tell - Memoirs of a Blow-up Doll is a book that shows us that things that are sparkly, glamorous and smooth on the outside can often be a little dark, awkward and unexpectedly windy on the inside. Sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious, Charlotte Dawson recalls many of the more noteworthy st ...Show more
Adventures of a Wonky Eyed Boy by Jason Byrne
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
‘“Mrs.Byrne, you’ve a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy, with a wonky eye.” My mother wept for all the wrong reasons as she was handed me by the midwife. She could have slept with a platypus and still I would have come out better than this.’ So begins Jason Byrne’s Memoir. It was a time wh ...Show more
Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep by Michael Schulman
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
A portrait of a woman, an era, and a profession: the first thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep--the "Iron Lady" of acting, nominated for nineteen Oscars and winner of three--that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling with love, feminism, and her astonishing talent. ...Show more
M Train by Patti Smith
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: near fine
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village caf. where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspir ...Show more