Manifesto - On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and act ...Show more
Still Standing by Jessica Quinn
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Jess Quinn's inspirational memoir tells her story of losing her leg to cancer as a nine-year-old and how she's come to an acceptance of this and turned it into a quest to help others. Jess Quinn is, in her own words, quite literally a walking miracle. Her body has been completely restructured so that sh ...Show more
The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Phillip Maisel OAM was born in August 1922, in Vilna, Lithuania. When the Germans arrived in Vilna in 1941, Phillip's life changed dramatically. He survived two years in a squalid, overcrowded Jewish ghetto, before enduring multiple Nazi labour and concentration camps. Phillip was liberated in 1945 whil ...Show more
All In: The Autobiography of Billie Jean King by Billie Jean King
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
An intimate self-portrait encompassing the life, times, and career of one of the most transformative individuals--let alone athletes--of recent times. Journeying from a blue-collar childhood to shatter tennis's exclusive country-club culture, Billie Jean King paved the way for a more open, inclusive, a ...Show more
The Louder I Will Sing by Lee Lawrence
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Shortlisted for the Costa Prize 2020'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known, events in modern British history. Lee's journey and fight for justice are both inspiring and enraging' AKALAWhat would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime again ...Show more
Nine Lives: Expeditions to Everest by Robert Mads Anderson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Robert Mads Anderson is an elite mountaineer with a solitary goal: to conquer Everest. After nearly getting killed on his first expedition, he led a team up a new route on the Kangshung Face without oxygen or Sherpa support, climbed solo on the remote North Face, and finally guided a team to the top of ...Show more
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
$10.00 NZD
$29.99 (66% off)
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE 2019 KIRKUS PRIZE IN NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE 2020 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD-ISRAEL FISHMAN NONFICTION AWARDONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019One of the best books of the year as selected by The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; Harper's Bazaar ...Show more
This Pakeha Life - An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha - and other New Zealanders - curious about their sen ...Show more
Anxious Autumn
$10.00 NZD
$29.95 (66% off)
Category: Biography
On 25 March 2020 New Zealand went into lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19. For the next five weeks our ‘team of five million’ endured the unprecedented experience of being required to stay home to save lives. The lockdown was different for everyone – for some it was a reprieve fr ...Show more
Leading Lady: Eva Poole: A Life in the Spotlight by Vivienne Allan
$10.00 NZD
$39.99 (74% off)
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Articulate and intelligent, Eve Poole had a passion for the theatre and the arts. Her desire to protect one of Invercargill’s cultural icons led her into politics and she was elected as the city’s first woman mayor in 1983. Cath Tizard broke similar ground in Auckland that year – the two becoming trailb ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern - A New Kind of Leader by Madeleine Chapman
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern is a leader for a new generation, one tired of inertia in the face of pressing issues such as climate change, immigration and the rise of far-right terrorism. Ardern was catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following th ...Show more
Under the Covers: Secrets of a Magazine Editor by Jenny Lynch
$10.00 NZD
$38.00 (73% off)
Category: Biography
Former editor Jenny Lynch takes the wraps off the unreported side of life in print, explodes myths, unearths secrets and shows that even on seemingly conservative publications such as the New Zealand Woman's Weekly things were seldom exactly as they seemed. Her memoir, aptly titled "Under the Covers", i ...Show more