This Is a Call - The Life and Times of Dave Grohl by Paul Brannigan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups. He's the nicest guy in rock. From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitt ...Show more
Dashing for the Post - The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy years ...Show more
Giordano Bruno - Philosopher Heretic by Ingrid D Rowland
$16.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo--a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. Writing with great verve and ...Show more
Dennis of Etruria - The Life of George Dennis by Dennis E Rhodes
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Black Sunset - Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos by Clancy Sigal
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
For me it begins in such an ordinary way ... with a gorilla, a blonde and a gun ... Mid- 20th century Hollywood; 'Raymond Chandler's LA before Pilates and cell phones'. Clancy Sigal (who would later be the inspiration for Doris Lessing's 'Saul Green') is just back from fighting in the Second World War a ...Show more
Requiem for a Rainbow - A Fijian Indian Story by Satendra Nandan; Kavita Ivy Nandan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this is the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isa ...Show more
Lady in Waiting - My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
**International Bestseller** **The Times (UK) Memoir of the Year** **One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020** An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Anne Glenconner--a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. As seen on Netflix's The C ...Show more
Henrietta Howard - King's Mistress, Queen's Servant by Borman, Tracy
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Don Rickles - The Merchant of Venom by Michael Seth Starr
$25.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: near fine
The first comprehensive biography of Don Rickles, the king of insult comedy and honorary rat pack member whose career spanned decades and influenced generations of comedians, written by New York Post television editor and celebrity biographer Michael Starr. Riding a wave of success that lasted more tha ...Show more
An Appetite for Wonder - The Making of a Scientist - A Memoir by Richard Dawkins
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life and intellectual development? And who inspired him to become the pionee ...Show more