An Appetite for Wonder - The Making of a Scientist - A Memoir by Richard Dawkins
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: good-very good
Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life and intellectual development? And who inspired him to become the pionee ...Show more
Anderton - His Life and Times by David Grant
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
Jim Anderton, the Labour rebel who founded a new political movement and became deputy prime minister, is the subject of this compelling, warts-and-all biography by award-winning historian David Grant. From his position as the Party's most outspoken president, Jim Anderton became a backbencher in David L ...Show more
Aspiring Daybook: The Diary of Elsie Winslow by Annabel Wilson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
In Aspiring Daybook, poet Annabel Wilson tells of a year in the life Elsie Winslow, who has just returned from Europe to Wanaka to take care of her terminally ill brother and finds herself thinking about love in ways she didn't expect. Like the mountains that surround her and the lake that greets her ev ...Show more
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Personal Memoir by Hana Yasmeen Ali
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
At Home with Muhammad Aliis an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of a legend, a man admired and respected as the greatest sporting icon of our age, written by Ali's daughter Hana. As Muhammad Ali approached the end of his astonishing boxing career, he strove to embrace a new purpose and role in life ...Show more
Aung San Suu Kyi: A Portrait in Words and Pictures by Christophe Loviny
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Placed under house arrest for more than fifteen years, Aung San Suu Kyi has become an international icon for her courage and the personal sacrifices she has made in the struggle against Burma's military regime. With her passion for freedom and human rights, she stands alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Ma ...Show more
Backroads: Charting a Poet's Life by Sam Hunt
$29.99 NZD
$49.99 (40% off)
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: Very Good
In Backroads, Sam Hunt looks back on the life that has seen him become one of New Zealand's best-loved poets. For over 40 years he has lived off his wits as a full-time poet, always writing, and tirelessly performing through the length and breadth of New Zealand. As a child Sam was surrounded by 'a lot ...Show more
Beethoven's Only Beloved: Josephine! by MR John E Klapproth
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones by Dolly Parton
$95.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
A beautifully illustrated celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive. In Behind the Seams My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the firs ...Show more
Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond by Henry Winkler
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
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
Big Bad Book of Bill Murray - A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor by Robert Schnakenberg
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
The man. The movies. The life. The legend. He's played a deranged groundskeeper, a bellowing lounge singer, a paranormal exterminator, and a grouchy weatherman. He is William James "Bill" Murray, America's greatest national treasure. From his childhood lugging golf bags at a country club to his first ta ...Show more
Big Blue Sky by Peter Garrett
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Peter Garrett's life so far has been deeply felt and fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, fierce intelligence and a questing and creative spirit, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives...From his idyllic childhood growing up in the northern suburbs of Sydney ...Show more
Bill & Shirley: A Memoir by Keith Ovenden
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Bill Sutch and Shirley Smith were two of New Zealand's most significant twentieth-century figures: Sutch as an economist, influential civil servant, and inspirational proponent of innovation in the fields of social and economic development, and Smith as glass-ceiling breaker in the formerly male-dominat ...Show more