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Observations of a Rural Nurse by Sara McIntyre (Photographer)
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Sara McIntyre, the daughter of the artist Peter McIntyre, was nine years old when her family first came to Kākahi, in the King Country, in 1960. The family has been linked to Kākahi ever since. On the family car trips of her childhood, McIntyre got used to her fathers frequent stops for subject matter ...Show more
English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The author of the beloved No.1 bestseller The Shepherd's Life returns with a stirring history of family, loss and the land over three generations on a Lake District farm 'A beautifully-written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape.' - Nigel Slater 'Just about perfect.' - Wendell Berry James ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$70.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: Easy
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
The Spymaster of Baghdad by Margaret Coker
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Authentic, moving, visceral, chilling, utterly revelatory, truly masterful. A stunning tour de force by an author who has lived every word of it on the ground. A story of our time that absolutely needs to be told' Damien Lewis, author of Zero Six Bravo The Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of ...Show more
Searching for Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC and Bar by Tom Scott
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has i ...Show more
Rage by Bob Woodward
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency. Rage goes behind the scenes like never before, with stunning new details about early national security decisions and operations and Trump's moves as he faces a global pandemic, ec ...Show more
Banks by Grantlee Kieza
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery - the extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers. Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trump ...Show more
How to Live by Sarah Bakewell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into thes ...Show more
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.' This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with them in bed. Taking us on a journey through comfort reads, street book stalls ...Show more
Tamatea Dusky: The Remarkable Story of Fiordland's Dusky Sound by Peta Carey
$70.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The remarkable story of conservation and history in Fiordland's Tamatea/Dusky Sound, by Peta Carey. With a fascinating history, both Maori and European, it is the place where Captain Cook arrived in 1773, and where ground-breaking conservation began in New Zealand over 120 years ago.
Ripiro Beach - A Memoir of Life after Near Death by Caroline Barron
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Does DNA write our destinies? Or do the hands that nurture triumph over nature? What is it that determines who we really are? Caroline Barron's father never found his birth mother. After he dies suddenly on her twentieth birthday, Caroline develops an insidious fear of her own untimely death. When she n ...Show more
Down in the Valley - A Writer's Landscape by Laurie Lee
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I realized that nowhere was like this.' Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood ...Show more
