200 Women by Ruth Hobday, Geoff Blackwell, Kieran Scott
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography
200 women from around the world, famous and unknown, answer the same five questions, such as “What really matters to you?” and “What would you change in the world if you could?” The answers are inspiring, moving, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, but always powerful. Interviewees include Graca Michel, ...Show more
Someone's Wife - A Memoir of Sorts by Linda Burgess
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A brilliant collection of personal essays from a quietly subversive writer. 'A work written with brio, Someone's Wife is hilarious and devastating, a sliver of New Zealand culture and history told through a single vibrant life and its entanglements with others. Slouching towards Aotearoa, perhaps Burges ...Show more
Just Mercy - A Story of Justice and Redemption (FTI edition) by Bryan Stevenson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A powerful, bold true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America's broken system of justice - from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time. The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. The prison population has increased from 3 ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is a wonderfully entertaining autobiography by Mary Seacole - nurse, entrepreneur and intrepid traveller. Soon to be a major motion picture starring GuGu Mbatha-Raw.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern - A New Kind of Leader by Madeleine Chapman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
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
In Shock by Rana Awdish
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.' Sunday Times'Tense, powerful and gripping... her writing style is often nothing short of beautiful - evocative and emotional.' Adam Kay, ObserverAt seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered ...Show more
The Book of Gutsy Women by Clinton, Hillary Rodham
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there’s a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the toughest resistance imaginable to win victories that have m ...Show more
Ripiro Beach: A Memoir of Life After Near Death by Caroline Barron
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Does DNA write our destinies? Or do the hands that nurture triumph over nature? What is it that determines who we really are? Caroline Barron's father never found his birth mother. After he dies suddenly on her twentieth birthday, Caroline develops an insidious fear of her own untimely death. When she n ...Show more
Dare Not Linger by Nelson Mandela
$44.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk to Freedom. "I ...Show more
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography
In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time. Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holl ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern by Michelle Duff
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is lauded as one of the world's most influential people. Her rise to power has been stellar. In 2017, she became leader of the Labour party just seven weeks before the election, at which she claimed the top job.