Working Class Boy by Jimmy Barnes
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
The critically acclaimed number 1 bestseller in paperback. A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was ...Show more
Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
It's a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives - from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan.In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed bestseller, Working Class Bo ...Show more
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
Xi: A Study in Power by Kerry Brown
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
A timely political primer on Xi Jinping by acclaimed author and academic, Professor Kerry Brown.
Yearbook - Seth Rogen by Seth Rogen
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people's searches using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks ...Show more
Yes, Minister: An Insider's Account of the John Key years by Chris Finlayson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
An insightful and entertaining glimpse into what really made the John Key government one of the most successful conservative governments New Zealand has ever seen.
Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad and Life Was a Catch-22 by Erica Heller
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
'You're Joseph Heller's daughter? How terrific'! But was there a catch? Like his most famous work, Joseph Heller was a study in contradictions: eccentric, brilliant and voracious, but also mercurial, competitive, and stubborn, with a love of mischief that sometimes cut too close to the bone. "Yossarian ...Show more
You Probably Think This Song Is About You by Kate Camp
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win. ‘Never apo ...Show more
You'll Never Make It - A New Zealand Pilot's Story by Rod Hall-Jones
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Rod Hall-Jones is a Te Anau-based author who has flown fixed-wing aeroplanes and helicopters since taking flying lessons at the age of 17. He has overcome more than a few hurdles to get to where he is today - including an examiner determined that he should not become an instructor, six engine failures, ...Show more
Young Eliot: From St Louis to the Waste Land by Robert Crawford
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T S Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century's most important poet from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the publication of his most famous poem, The Wast ...Show more
Young Queen by Parris Goebel
$29.99 NZD
$35.00 (14% off)
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Crazy. Bold. Fearless. Parris Goebel was destined to make her mark. Young Queen is the autobiography of a dancer with a dream . . . a young Polynesian girl who grew up in New Zealand and went on to conquer the hip hop world. In this honest memoir, Parris Goebel shares the extraordinary story of how s ...Show more
Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden
$29.99 NZD
$50.00 (40% off)
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Most people today think of Winston Churchill as simply the wartime British bulldog - a jowly, cigar-chomping old fighter demanding blood, sweat and tears from his nation. But the well-known story of the elder statesman has overshadowed an earlier part of his life that is no less fascinating, and that ha ...Show more