Taylor Swift: The Whole Story by Chas Newkey-Burden
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The updated story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world with her Eras tour. A small-town girl with incredible talent – and the strength and determination to realise her dream – Taylor Swift has gone from A ...Show more
The Blues Brothers by Daniel de Vise
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
"They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theatres on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local Chicago orphanage; but Aykr ...Show more
Father and Son by Jonathan Raban
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
On 11 June 2011, three days short of his sixty-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban suffered a stroke which left him unable to use the right side of his body. Learning to use a wheelchair in a rehab facility outside Seattle and resisting the ministrations of the nurses overseeing his recovery, Raban began to ...Show more
Hold my Hand, Rosie. Don't Let Go: A mother-and-daughter story of addiction, despair, and hope by Madeline & Rosie Redding
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Rosie is a shy young teenager when she starts experimenting with alcohol. When Rosie’s parents finally realise that their beloved daughter is having problems with her drinking, Rosie is firmly in the grip of alcoholism. What follows is the true story of a family’s battle over ten years to find help for ...Show more
My Effin' Life by Geddy Lee
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling author of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass.Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected bassists. For nearly five decades, his playing and ...Show more
Going Solo (Classic Collection) by Roald Dahl
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: The\Roald Dahl Classic Collection
Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the ...Show more
Boy: Tales of Childhood (Classic Collection) by Roald Dahl
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: The\Roald Dahl Classic Collection
Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine. This beautiful edition of Boy, part of The Roald Dahl Cla ...Show more
Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan by Bariz Shah
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
What does it take to find hope in dark places and change the course of your life? When Bariz Shah's family immigrated to New Zealand, they couldn't have predicted that everything would change after 9/11. Still only a child, Bariz became the target of racist abuse and bullying, and responded the only way ...Show more
Quentin Tarantino: A Graphic Biography by Michele Botton
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: BioGraphics Ser.
Unofficial and unauthorised. "When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'No, I went to films'" From the set of 1993's Pulp Fiction, to a bar room meeting with Robert Rodriguez and an inspirational lunch with Leonardo di Caprio, this unique graphic novel takes us across a series of Holl ...Show more
The Silver River: A memoir of family - lost, made and found - from the Midnight Oil founding member, for readers of Dave Grohl, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin by Jim Moginie
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind the startling rise and global success of one of Australia's most powerful, influential a ...Show more
My Mother and I by Ingrid Seward
$38.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A vivid and revealing portrait of the real relationship between King Charles III and his mother, by the esteemed royal biographer, Ingrid Seward - perfect for fans of the popular Netflix TV series The Crown.The relationship between the late monarch and her son, the King, has long been a subject of fasci ...Show more
A Face for Picasso : Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome by Ariel Henley
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
I am ugly. There's a mathematical equation to prove it. At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome -- a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it. Growing up, Ariel and her sister en ...Show more