The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Mo ...Show more
Handling Edna by Barry Humphries
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
<p>In this unauthorised biography, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy, long-time manager and the man who was there from the very beginning, Barry Humphries takes a behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look at an icon of our times Dame Edna Everage. Superstar, swami, con ...Show more
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor.Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. I ...Show more
The Exiled Collector: William Bankes and the Making of an English Country House by Anne Sebba
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
On August 30th 1841 William John Bankes, former Tory MP, pioneer Egyptologist and renowned traveller, was caught in compromising circumstances with a guardsman in London's Green Park. Faced with the death penalty, he fled to exile in Venice, leaving forever his beloved house, Kingston Lacy in Dorset. It ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Ame ...Show more
Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon by Lesley Adkins
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Exploration, decipherment and heroism in the name of learning, from the author of The Keys of Egypt.At Behistun, in the Zagros mountains of what is now western Iran, rises a vertical cliff face covered with a huge cuneiform inscription set up in 520 BC to record the exploits of the Persian king Darius t ...Show more
Savage - The Life and Times of Jemmy Button by Nick Hazlewood
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
A tale of tragedy, catastrophe, and the triumph of the human spirit.In 1830 a Yamana Indian boy, Orundellico, was bought from his uncle in Tierra del Fuego for the price of a mother-of-pearl button. Renamed Jemmy Button, he was removed from his primitive nomadic existence, where life revolved around the ...Show more
Mick Jagger by Philip Norman
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
A miracle of still-plentiful hair, raw sex-appeal, and strutting talent . The frontman of one of the most influential and controversial groups of all time. A musical genius with a career spanning over four decades. He is a testament to British glamour, the ultimate architect and demi-god of rock. Bestse ...Show more
Ever Yours, C H Spence. Catherine Helen Spence's an Autobiography 1825-1910, Diary 1894, and Correspondence 1894-1910 by Catherine Helen Spence
$30.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Ever Yours, C.H. Spence offers a narrative of the life of Catherine Helen Spence, in the spirit of the recent bestseller Blue Ribbons and Bitter Bread by Susanna de Vries. Novelist, journalist, preacher, public campaigner for social and electoral reform and life-long promoter of the rights of women, Spe ...Show more
Ned Kelly by John C. Molony
$14.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Since his death in the old Melbourne Gaol on 11 November 1880, Ned Kelly has become a part of the land and its memories. In this evocative, imaginative recreation of the Kelly story, John Molony unravels the tangled skein of a life over which legend has cast a spell.
My Place - indigenous - FP by Sally Morgan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Recounting experiences from travels back to her grandmother's birthplace, this classic of Australian literature documents what started out as a tentative search for information about the author's family--and turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. Unearthing political and societa ...Show more