Ernest Hemingway by Boris Vejdovsky
$69.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
An American author and Nobel Prize winner, Ernest Hemingway wrote some of the most well known literature of the 20th century, some of his most famous works are "The Sun Also Rises" (1926) and "A Farewell to Arms" (1929). This title follows the life and times of Hemingway, from his birth in 1899 to his d ...Show more
Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy by Anne Sebba
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
"I don't think I've ever read a book that has moved me more" ANTHONY HOROWITZ "Masterful, original and painfully gripping" PHILIPPE SANDS "A brilliant and fresh take on a famous case" SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Ethel Rosenberg's story is America's Dreyfus Affair: a catastrophic failure of humanity and justi ...Show more
Ettie Rout: New Zealand's Safer Sex Pioneer by Jane Tolerton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Ettie Rout fought a battle for safer sex in the First World War - and won. She gave New Zealand the best sexual health system when its army adopted her prophylactic kit and made every soldier going on leave take one - while she was banned from the pages of the newspapers so New Zealanders wouldn't find ...Show more
Events in the Life of Phillip Tapsell: The Old Dane by Jonathan Adams
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Hans Falk, born in 1790 in Copenhagen, took to the sea as a lad, changed his name to Phillip Tapsell, and after many adventures settled at Maketu in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty. There he became the key trader for Bay of Plenty iwi and married into the highest levels of Te Arawa, while helping other trib ...Show more
Everest - The First Ascent: The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man Who Made it Possible by Harriet Tuckey
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Marking the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest in May 1953, "Everest - The First Ascent" tells the story of the doctor and physiologist Griffith Pugh, without whom the successful conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay would not have been possible. Recruited as an advisor i ...Show more
Every Secret Thing by Gillian Slovo
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who alwa ...Show more
Evolving: Finding Health and Happiness as We Age by Judy Bailey
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
An inspiring and personal guide to ageing well and with happiness, by national treasure Judy Bailey. When beloved broadcaster Judy Bailey signed off her final news bulletin in 2005, she had no idea that retirement would bring some of the most fulfilling years of her life. Ever the journalist, Judy sea ...Show more
Excommunicated - A multi-generational story of leaving the Exclusive Brethren by Craig Hoyle
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren. After coming out as gay as a teenager, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren. The conservative sect was everything he'd ever known - a childhood where television, po ...Show more
Exile on Front Street: My Life as a Hells Angel by George Christie
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
After forty years in the Hells Angels, George Christie was ready to retire. As the president of the notorious Ventura chapter for the club, he had been the yin to Sonny Barger's yang. Barger was the reckless figurehead and de facto world leader of the Angels. Christie was the negotiator, the spokesman, ...Show more
Exposed by John Wareham
$29.95 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
A distinguished Manhattan-based maverick accepts an invitation to share 'a few inspiring words' with a visiting class from his former New Zealand high school, where sexual abuse was an open secret, and sadistic masters ran rife. How much truth should he share? With unerring wisdom and dark wit, Pulitzer ...Show more
Faking It: My Life in Transition by Kyle Mewburn
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Kyle Mewburn grew up in the sunburnt, unsophisticated Brisbane suburbs of the 1960s and '70s in a household with little love and no books, with a lifelong feeling of being somehow wrong - like 'strawberry jam in a spinach can'. In this book, Kyle describes this early life and her journey to becoming her ...Show more
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
In February 1991, Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour on board his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine. He had come to complete his purchase of the ailing New York Daily News. Crowds lined the quayside to watch his arrival. Taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand, children a ...Show more