The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her si ...Show more
Long Live the Queen - Mighty, Magnificent and Bloody Marvellous Queens We've Forgotten by Emma Marriott
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
Powerful and influential kings have long dominated our view of global history, their queens often relegated to the shadows, their influence, deeds and sacrifices unacknowledged and lost in the passing of time. But not anymore... This book chronicles the forgotten queens from across the globe - those wh ...Show more
Running with the Bulls : My Years With The Hemingways by Valerie Hemingway
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face to face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked into place. For the next two years, Valerie devoted her life to Hemingway and his wife, Mary, traveling ...Show more
Last Boat Out of Shanghai - The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution--a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. "A true page-turner . . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history is something that ha ...Show more
Three Tigers, One Mountain - A journey through the bitter history and current conflicts of China, Korea and Japan by Michael Booth
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'The next Bill Bryson' (New York Times) explores international relations past and present between three East Asian countries - Japan, South Korea and China - in this lively, absorbing travelogue China, Korea and Japan are the neighbours who love to hate each other. But why? More than neighbours, these ...Show more
Patriot or Traitor - The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh by Anna Beer
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
A BBC History Magazine Book of the YearA writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. The fifth son of a Devonshire gentleman, he rose to become Queen Elizabeth's favourite, only to be charged with treason by her succ ...Show more
Heart by Sandeep Jauhar
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
'Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.' -Henry Marsh, New Statesman A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year The heart l ...Show more
Fashion Climbing: A New York Life by Bill Cunningham
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I took to New York life like a star shooting through the heavens...' Bill Cunningham's first love was fashion but the big city came a close second. He left for New York aged nineteen, losing his family's support but enjoying the infinite luxury of freedom. Living on a scoop of Ovaltine a day, he would ...Show more
A Tokyo Romance - A Memoir by Ian Buruma
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments. Through his adventures in the world of avant-garde theatre, his encounters with carnival act ...Show more
On Writing by Charles Bukowski
$23.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A collection of previously unpublished letters from America's cult icon on the art of writing. Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On Writing collects Bukowski's reflections and rumina ...Show more
Marilyn: A Biography by Norman Mailer
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Genius". ("The New York Times"). In 1973, Norman Mailer published "Marilyn", his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome. His work was immediately acclaimed - and an enduring bestseller, rumoured to have sold more copies than any of hi ...Show more
Dashiell Hammett - Man of Mystery by Sally Cline; Otto Penzler (Foreword by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Delivers the goods on Hammett, in brief. . . . An entertaining and informative read." --Library Journal Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery is the first new biography in thirty years on the man who changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, ...Show more