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The Hare with Amber Eyes - A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who "burned like a comet" in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of the ...Show more
The Princess Diarist - A Sort of Memoir by Carrie Fisher
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's New York Times bestselling intimate, hilarious, and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the f ...Show more
Lives of Eminent Men by John Aubrey
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'Mr William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.' Gen ...Show more
The Letters Of John And Abigail Adams by John Adams
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Covering key moments in history, these letters are an intimate portrait of a colonial family and an important historical record of the beginnings of American government.
Betsy and the Emperor: The True Story of Napoleon, a Pretty Girl, a Regency Rake, and an Australian Colonial Misadventure by Anne Whitehead
$18.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the fallen emperor was charmed by the pretty teenage daughter of a loc ...Show more
Muhammad Ali - A Memoir by Michael Parkinson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Muhammed Ali appeared on Michael Parkinson's chat show four times, with Parkinson declaring him the 'most remarkable human I ever encountered'. Drawing on those now iconic interviews, Michael Parkinson discusses the life of a sporting icon. From the early days of admiration for his political beliefs, to ...Show more
Prisoner of Tehran - The End of Childhood in Iran by Marina Nemat
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Brought up as a Christian, Marina Nemat
A Positively Final Appearance - A Journal, 1996-98 by Alec Guinness
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
White Beech - The Rainforest Years by Germaine Greer
$12.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Reading Level: very good
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Toast - The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater
$8.00 NZD
Category: Food | Reading Level: very good
The biggest memoir of the year, from Britain
Fitzroy of the Beagle by H E L Mellersh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: good-very good
The Life and Work of Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna - MA Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington
$15.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: good