How to Escape from Prison by Paul Wood
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A book on how to break free from prison A powerful lesson in personal change As an 18-year-old, Dr Paul Wood was completely off the rails. He wasn't coping with the impending death of his mother, he was dependent on drugs, and was an unemployed high-school dropout committing crimes to feed his habit. Tw ...Show more
I'm Staying at Richard's: Raising the Exceptional Son I Never Expected by Bernadette Agius
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography
This inspiring, heartfelt, and powerful memoir by a mother of a child with Down syndrome explores the incredible blessings and challenges of raising a child with disabilities. When Bernadette Agius--an ambitious career-focused woman--became pregnant, she imagined her unborn child attending the best ...Show more
Tell Me the Planets - Stories of Brain Injury and What It Means to Survive by Ben Platts-Mills
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography
What if you remembered things that never happened? Or you forgot everything every few seconds? Or one side of your body stopped working? In Tell Me the Planets Ben Platts-Mills explores the fractured lives of survivors of brain injury, providing an extraordinary glimpse into their daily struggles to le ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
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
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn; Angela Harding
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the a ...Show more
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island off ...Show more
Untitled: the Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anna Pasternak
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Who was the real Wallis: an opportunistic American social climber, a master manipulator or the true love of Edward's life? Amid the cacophony of condemnation her story has become obfuscated. Untitled is an intimate biography of one of the most misunderstood women in British royal history. His charisma a ...Show more
Bill Birch: Minister of Everything by Brad Tattersfield
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Bill Birch was the quiet achiever of New Zealand politics. A trusted lieutenant to Prime Ministers Muldoon, Bolger and Shipley, Birch was at the heart of the action across a turbulent quarter-century of political and social change. From Think Big and the Employment Contracts Act to overhauls of immigrat ...Show more