Under the Wire by Paul Conroy
27.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
NOW A MAJOR FEATURE DOCUMENTARY Determined to cover the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent and the devastating impact of the war on Syria's civilians, veteran photographer Paul Conroy and Marie Colvin,one of the foremost war correspondents of her generation, decided to smuggle themselves acros ...Show more
The Boy Who Felt Too Much by Lorenz Wagner
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Henry Markram is the Elon Musk of neuroscience, the man behind the billion-dollar Blue Brain Project to build a supercomputer model of the brain. He has set the goal of decoding all disturbances of the mind within a generation. This quest is personal for him. The driving force behind his grand ambition ...Show more
Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography by Blanche d'Alpuget
69.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
To mark Bob Hawke's extraordinary life and legacy, this master work brings together the story of the man in full in a definitive hardback commemorative biography. Bob Hawke began life as a good Christian boy from a teetotal family, became a wild, drinking, womanising student, a Rhodes Scholar, a cha ...Show more
Denali: The Story of an Exceptional Dog by Ben Moon
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In the bestselling tradition of Finding Gobi and Marley & Me, the moving story of a dog, his human and the friendship that saved both their lives - and inspired countless others. Ben Moon had no intention of getting a dog until he met the soulful gaze of a husky-pit bull cross pup in a rescue shel ...Show more
Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview by ANTHONY BOURDAIN
35.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
The brilliant intellect and candor of Anthony Bourdain is on full display in this collection of interviews from throughout his remarkable career, including interviews with Neil Degrasse Tyson and Trevor Noah Anthony Bourdain always downplayed his skills as a chef (many disagreed). But despite his mo ...Show more
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather
28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others? In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mi ...Show more
A Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz by Dita Kraus
28.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys of ...Show more
Parisian Lives by Deirdre Bair
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning autho ...Show more
The Aeronauts: Travels in the Air by James Glaisher
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
In 1862, ambitious scientist James Glaisher set out to do the impossible: ascend higher into the skies than ever before. A pioneer of weather forecasting and of photography, he wanted to take ground-breaking research measurements from different altitudes. Before aeroplanes, the only unpredictable availa ...Show more
Graham Greene: The Last Interview by Graham Greene
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
A master of twentieth century fiction, Graham Greene looks back on his life. This volume also includes several key interviews from throughout his long, fruitful career. Graham Greene led one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. The son of a Hertfordshire headmaster, he quickly d ...Show more
Gotta Get Theroux This - My life and strange times in television by Louis Theroux
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat charact ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: near fine
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time.The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by th ...Show more