The Age of Turbulence : Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From the bestselling author of The Map and the Territory and Capitalism in America The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan's incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effec ...Show more
Alistair Cooke's American Journey : Life on the Home Front in the Second World War by Alistair Cooke
59.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Alistair Cooke, then a Washington correspondent for The Guardian, recognized a great story to be told in investigating at first hand the effects of the Second World War on America and the daily lives of Americans as they adjusted to radically new circumstances. Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack, w ...Show more
The Lodger by Charles Nicholl
55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'One Mr Shakespeare that laye in the house...' In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry - but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist's ...Show more
Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore
37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Breaking the autobiographical mode, Michael Moore hilariously presents 20 far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from his own life. Moore is his own meta-Forrest Gump, as one moment he's an 11-year old boy stuck on a Senate elevator with Bobby Kennedy, and the next moment he's inside the Bitburg cemetery w ...Show more
A View of Delft by Anthony Bailey
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Vermeer has always been considered the most elusive of great artists, but this work tracks him down in his home town. It takes the reader back to 17th-century Delft, and gives a portrait of Vermeer, the Protestant who married a prosperous Catholic girl and had 15 children. Trade Paperback
Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep by Siba Shakib
28.99 NZD
32.95 (12% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The moving story of an indomitable Afghan woman, Shirin-Gol, who rebelled against life within a forced marriage, spent behind the walls of her house, and who wanted an education for her children so that they might have the chance to live free from the fear and poverty she had known since girlhood.
Unforgivable Blackness by Geoffrey C. Ward
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
He was the first black heavyweight champion in history (1908-15), and the most celebrated - and most reviled - African American of his age. In "Unforgivable Blackness", prize-winning biographer Geoffrey C. Ward brings to vivid life, the real Jack Johnson, a figure far more complex than the newspaper hea ...Show more
The Spy in the Bookshop : Letters between Heywood Hill and John Saumarez Smith 1966-74 by John Saumarez Smith (ed)
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Whilst compiling and editing "The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street", described as 'a little gem' by the "Sunday Times", John Saumarez Smith discovered that one side of that 'elegant and entertaining' ("Spectator") and 'thought provoking and... laugh out loud' ("Country Life") correspondence, had been to som ...Show more
Someone Else's Child by Sue Phillips
39.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In her late thirties, with three children of her own, Sue Phillips chose to carry a baby for a couple who were unable to conceive. She didn't do it for money, or because they asked her to, or because she wanted the baby herself. She did it because she couldn't bear being in a position to help them and d ...Show more
Mercy, Mater and Me Sister Angela Mary: A Memoir by Sister Angela Mary
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the story of a young woman, a Sister of Mercy from Ireland, arriving in Brisbane in 1947 aboard an old troop ship, having left behind her close-knit family and friends. From humble beginnings, Sister Angela Mary, originally trained as a teacher, was called upon to work as a nurse at Brisbane's M ...Show more
Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers Making Their Mark by Susan Sheridan
42.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'The woman writer's return to publication after periods of silence resembles the nine lives of the legendary cat.' The traditional view of postwar Australian literature shows a scene of flourishing male writers, with women confined to the domestic sphere. In Nine Lives , Susan Sheridan rewrites the page ...Show more