The Crossing: A Memoir of Love, Adventure and Finding Your Own Path by Sophie Matterson
38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
An epic story of leaving everything behind to find purpose, adventure and love, by crossing 4750km of rugged Australian terrain with five wild camels. I had always felt like I was looking for 'more' in my life. I couldn't quite define what this 'more' was, but I knew the camels were a part of it. In 202 ...Show more
The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements by Aung San Suu Kyi
28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Aung San Suu Kyi is known for her courageous stand for democracy and human rights inside Burma (now Myanmar). Forced to endure many years of house arrest by the military junta, she continues to act as a focus for change inside a country that is ruled by one of the most hard-line dictatorships in the wor ...Show more
The World According to Kaleb by Kaleb Cooper
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Introducing Clarkson's Farm favourite Kaleb Cooper's worldly wisdom on life's big issues, from the difference between straw and hay to the importance of having a hair perm.Chipping Norton's celebrity farmer Kaleb Cooper has strong views on lots of things: sheep ('suicidal morons'), Jeremy Clarkson ('the ...Show more
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John
28.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
The best selling memoir, now in paperback!
Queen of Our Times - The Life of Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: near fine
The definitive new biography of Her Majesty The Queen by one of Britain's leading royal authorities. With original insights from those who know her best, unseen papers, new interviews with world leaders and a fresh perspective on the longest reign in British history, Robert Hardman tells the full life s ...Show more
Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood
38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time an ...Show more
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age by Anne de Courcy
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half the poets and novelists of the twenties. Born into a life of wealth and privilege, yet one in which she barely saw her parents, Nancy rebelled against expec ...Show more
Sonic Life - A Memoir by Thurston Moore
40.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art - from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to the formation of his legendary rock group, to thirty years of creation, experimentation, and wonder. "Downtown scientists rejoice! F ...Show more
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN. His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even o ...Show more
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: near fine
Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between t ...Show more
The Path of Peace - Walking the Western Front Way by Anthony Seldon
28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
'Profound [and] compelling' Spectator 'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer 'A noble endeavour' New Statesman 'A haunting, intense, enjoyable and memorable book' Tristan Gooley 'Compelling and well-balanced... valuable and poignant' Times Literary Supplement ***A WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 PICK*** W ...Show more
Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend by Flea
30.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star. Michael Peter Balzary was born i ...Show more