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The Quick and the Dead by Cynric Temple-Camp
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Dr Cynric Temple-Camp's suspense-filled, often Gothic story-telling ability captivated readers in his debut book, The Cause of Death. In the Quick and the Dead, New Zealand's self-confessed aficionado of death is back with more mysterious illnesses, gruesome murders, baffling crimes, and the other curio ...Show more
Song for Rosaleen by Pip Desmond
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A beautifully crafted memoir of a family coping with their mother's dementia, Song for Rosaleen is both a celebration of Rosaleen Desmond's life and an unflinching account of the practical and ethical dilemmas that faced her six children. Told with love, insight, humour and compassion, it raises importa ...Show more
This Farming Life by Tim Saunders
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Farmer Tim Saunders manages to incorporate some writing into his days, and here he describes his life through the seasons: Summer, shearing, slaughter, crop harvest, conservation; Autumn, floods, trading stock, drenching, dagging; Winter, maize harvest, lambing; and Spring, docking, pet sheep, weaning. ...Show more
One Minute Crying Time by Barbara Ewing
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s - a very different time - and ends in 1962, when she boards a ship for London, to study at the Royal Acade ...Show more
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy. Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing up in a sm ...Show more
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography
WINNER OF THE 2019 KIRKUS PRIZE IN NONFICTION WINNER OF THE 2020 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD-ISRAEL FISHMAN NONFICTION AWARD ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 One of the best books of the year as selected by The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; Harper's ...Show more
The Miracle Typist by Leon Silver
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
In the tradition of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, a heartbreaking true story of love, loss and survival against all odds during the Second World war. Conscripted into the Polish army as Hitler's ground and air forces are bearing down on his country, Jew Tolek Klings vows to return to his wife, Klara, and ...Show more
Courage to Care by Christie WATSON
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
At our most vulnerable, at our most scared, we need others. We need compassion. Nowhere is this clearer than in nursing. Christie Watson was a nurse for over twenty years. Looking back at the nurses she has met then and since from different specialisms, she brings us stories of bravery, wisdom and kindn ...Show more
The Wild Silence (#2) by Raynor Winn
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Raynor Winn's magical and life-affirming new book, The Wild Silence - the follow-up to the uplifting, Sunday Times, internationally bestselling, Wainwright prize shortlisted, and Costa shortlisted, The Salt Path. In The Salt Path, Raynor and Moth go out to find the sea, the windswept and wild coastline ...Show more
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
"Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again." -David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon One of the New York Times' "20 most antic ...Show more
Inge's War - A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler by Svenja O'Donnell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera 'A superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet, author of Spoils What does it mean to be on the wrong side of history? Svenja's beautiful, aloof grandmother Inge never spoke about the past. All her family k ...Show more
The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II by Michael Rosen
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A personal, powerful and resonant account of the Holocaust by one of the best-loved children's authors. By turns charming, shocking and heart-breaking, this is the true story of Michael Rosen's search for his relatives who "went missing" during the Second World War - told through prose, poetry, maps an ...Show more