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9780007155118
The Essential Spike Milligan order quantity
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NZ$ 26.00 each
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Author: Spike Milligan (compiler Alexander Games)
Published by: Fourth Estate
In Stock: 1
When Spike Milligan died in 2002, he left behind one of the most diverse legacies in British entertainment history – as well as a legion of devoted fans and admirers. Milligan's themes ranged from environmental issues to the war, from nostalgia to depression, and his prolific output covers some of the most evocative events of the twentieth century, in a style both twistedly comic and harrowingly honest.
From the pioneering lunacy of The Goon Show through his first novel Puckoon to the mould-breaking war memoirs that began with Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, Milligan wrote with a passionate honesty that combined lyricism with all-out lunacy. His love of children also produced some of the most popular kids' verse ever written. This, the first posthumous anthology of his work, compiled with the co-operation of his closest circle, provides a comprehensive guide to Milligan's work, as well as shedding light on some less familiar ... more
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9780719567001
A Million Little Pieces order quantity
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Author: James Frey
Published by: John Murray (Publishers) Ltd
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Aged just twenty-three, James Frey had destroyed his body and his mind almost beyond repair. When he enters a rehabilitation centre to try to reclaim his life, he has to fight to determine what future, if any, he has. His lack of self-pity, cynicism and piety gives him an unflinching honesty - a fearless candour that is at once charming and appalling, searing and darkly funny.

Powerful and searingly self-critical ... easily the most remarkable non-fiction book about drugs and drug taking since Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ... Perversely uplifting, as a memoir, it is almost mythic' Observer

This edition now contains a disclaimer from the author, about the fictionalising of some details in the book.
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9781844086856
Lives Like Loaded Guns : Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds order quantity
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Author: Lyndall Gordon
Published by: Virago Press Ltd
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Though in her lifetime only ten of Emily Dickinson's poems were published, her death revealed 1,789 poems, many of them in hand-sewn booklets, secreted in a locked chest. She is now regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come down to us as a woman disappointed in love, an odd and pathetic woman who dressed in white and shut herself away. Lyndall Gordon sees instead her volcanic character, a mystic, and lover, whose family harboured a hothouse drama of sex, scandal and devastating betrayal. Emily Dickinson was a woman beyond her time who found love, spiritual quickening and immortality all on her own terms.
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9780571248124
A Life Like Other People's order quantity
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Author: Alan Bennett
Published by: Faber and Faber
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Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his mother's descent into depression and later dementia comes hand in hand with the uncovering of a long-held tragic secret. A heartrending and at times irresistibly funny work of autobiography by one of the best-loved English writers alive today.

First published 2005 in Untold Stories; this edition 2009.
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9781905798209
A Lover of Unreason : The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill - Ted Hughes's Doomed Love order quantity
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Author: Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev
Published by: Portico
In Stock: 2
'Assia was my true wife, and the best friend I ever had', wrote Ted Hughes, after his lover surrendered her life and that of their young daughter in 1969, six years after Sylvia Plath had suffered a similar fate.
Diva, she-devil, enchantress, muse, Lillith, Jezebel - Assia inspired many epithets during her life.
The tragic story of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been related from one of two points of view: hers or his. Missing for over four decades had been a third: that of Hughes' mistress.
This first biography of Assia Wevill views afresh the Plath-Hughes relationship and at the same time, recounts the journey that shaped her life.
Wevill's is a complex story, formed as it is by the pull of often contrary forces. The incredible story of Ted Hughes's deeply troubled lover received glowing reviews. This book provides a fascinating new perspective on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's relationship. It is a ... more
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9780297854418
Arthur Miller : the definitive biography order quantity
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Author: Christopher Bigsby
Published by: weidenfeld & nicolson
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This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights whose postwar decade of work earned him international critical and popular acclaim. Arthur Miller was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over sixty years, writing a wide variety of plays - including The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman - which are still performed, studied and lauded throughout the world. Born in 1915 to moderately affluent Jewish-American parents, Miller wrote during a fascinating time in American history. The Great Depression was a period of deprivation for many that left an indelible mark on the national psyche, and, like many, Miller found hope for the beleaguered common man in Communism. The Second World War elevated the common man to war hero, but when the Cold War subsequently began, the ugly elements of American conservatism freely persecuted writers and artists ... more
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9780732288044
A Simpler Time order quantity
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Author: Peter Fitzsimons
Published by: HarperCollins
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It still amazes me what they allowed us to do without their supervision or help, while remaining deeply loving parents. Climb trees, from the age of four or five? No problems. Drive the tractor from the age of six or seven onwards? Good luck to you. Haul on the hoist to pull the bins filled with oranges off the trailer? Yes. Take your bike out on the Pacific Highway and ride to school? Just be careful, but okay. Their rough reckoning was that if we thought we could do something, we probably could - and if we thought we couldn’t do something, we probably still could, if we applied ourselves. Peter FitzSimons’ account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney, in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and generations past, when praise was understated but love unstinting; work was hard and values clear; when people stood by each other in adversity. Above all, in the FitzSimons home, days ... more
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9781408809365
Eat, Pray, Love ( Film Tie-In) order quantity
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NZ$ 31.00 each
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Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Published by: Allen & Unwin
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It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing pleasure, devotion and balance.
So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.
 
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9780733328909
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Author: Harari, Fiona
Published by: harper collins
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Elders is a landmark series of one-on-one interviews between Andrew Denton and prominent ‘elders’ of our tribe, each over the age of 65, to discover what life has taught them. With subjects as diverse as Alan Alda, Sir David Attenborough, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and Isabelle Allende, each interview seeks to enlighten audiences with a fundamental philosophy that is often forgotten valuing the experience of our elders.
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9780007237050
Fab: An intimate life of Paul McCartney order quantity
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Author: Howard Sounes
Published by: Harper Collins
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The living embodiment of The Beatles, a musical juggernaut without parallel, Paul McCartney is undoubtedly the senior figure in pop music today. In this authoritative biography, journalist and acclaimed author Howard Sounes leaves no stone unturned in building the most accurate and extensive profile yet of music's greatest living legend. He is one of the biggest stars that has ever existed, the only key member left from the unquestioned 'biggest band of all time'. But despite the almost unprecedented press coverage he has received throughout his lifetime, the private personality of Paul McCartney remains a source of intrigue and relative mystery to the public. Spanning the entirety of McCartney's life from early childhood right up to the present day, Fab delves deep into the life of this remarkable and often surprising man, revealing the often dark reality behind his consistently positive, relaxed public image. For the first time, ... more
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9781846140167
He Knew He Was Right : The Irrepressible Life of James Lovelock and Gaia order quantity
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Author: John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin
Published by: Allen Lane
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Jim Lovelock is an iconic figure in British science, a prophet whose prophecies are coming true. This is his definitive authorised biography.

Lovelock is best known as the 'father' of Gaia theory, which is now established as the most useful way of understanding the dramatic changes happening to the environment of the Earth. But few people know about his early work as a chemist and inventor - work which included inventing the detectors used to search for life on Mars, and blowing the whistle on the depletion of ozone layer. In his personal life, he was a Quaker and conscientious objector in World War Two (later changing his mind in view of the evils of Nazism), supported his family for a time by selling his own blood, and gave up a salary and security to become an independent scientist based in an English village - from which all his best known work emerged.
As he approaches his 90th birthday, looking forward to going into ... more

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9781846682667
Howards End is on the Landing : A year of reading from home order quantity
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Author: Susan Hill
Published by: Profile Books Ltd
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Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking new purchases in order to get to know her own collection again. A book which is left on a shelf for a decade is a dead thing, but it is also a chrysalis, packed with the potential to burst into new life. Wandering through her house that day, Hill's eyes were opened to how much of that life was stored in her home, neglected for years. "Howard's End is on the Landing" charts the journey of one of the nation's most accomplished authors as she revisits the conversations, libraries and bookshelves of the past that have informed a lifetime of reading and writing.
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9780141043081
In Cold Blood (The Penguin Magnum Collection) order quantity
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Author: Truman Capote
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible, yet entirely and frighteningly human. The book that made Capote's name, "In Cold Blood" is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative.
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9780732291945
Mary MacKillop's Sisters : A life unveiled order quantity
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Author: Anne Henderson
Published by: HarperCollins
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Through their own words, the sisters reflect on their work, their vows of poverty, celibacy and obedience and what these mean in the modern world. Always interesting and sometimes surprising, this book is an invaluable social and historical document and a wonderful read.
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9780760336472
Neil Young: Long may you run order quantity
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Author: Daniel Durcholz
Published by: Voyageur Press
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9780007281442
Open : An autobiography order quantity
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Author: Andre Agassi
Published by: Harper Collins
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Andre Agassi, former tennis World No. 1 tells his story – in his own words. Not only will this book cover his tennis career but also some extraordinary insights into his personal life.
Did you know . . .
He won eight Grand Slam singles tournaments throughout his career and is one of only five male players to have won all four separate Grand Slam singles titles.
He won an Olympic gold medal in singles
AND he is the only male player to have won a career Golden Slam. (The only female player to have won a career Golden Slam was Steffi Graf.)
Which brings us to Agassi’s personal life . . .
-He dated Barbara Streisand in the early 90s before eventually marrying Brooke Shields. But unfortunately that didn’t last and they divorced after just two years of marriage. That same year, Steffi Graf and Andre were both winners at the French Open and started dating. They were married in 2001 and now live in Las Vegas with their two ... more
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9781877378454
Postcards from Tukums: A family detective story order quantity
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Author: Ann Gluckman
Published by: David Ling Publishing Limited
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Hidden letters, ancient postcards, & years of piecing together fragments about Ann’s grandparents who, in 1904, left Tukums in Latvia (then part of Imperial Russia) to settle in Stratford, Taranaki. A gorgeous book full of photos & fascinating memorabilia.
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9781926428031
Reading by Moonlight : How books saved a life order quantity
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Author: Brenda Walker
Published by: Hamish Hamilton
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Choosing the right books to take to hospital during her breast cancer treatment was crucial for this novelist, English professor & literary scholar.
This is a stunning book about healing & about the solace & sustenance offered by books. Inspiring!

First published 2010.
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9780330519984
The Bridge: The life and rise of Barack Obama order quantity
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Author: David Remnick
Published by: Macmillan General Books
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This book, Remnick's first full length work of non-fiction since the bestselling King of the World, will tell the story of race in the history of America through the prism of the country's first mixed-race president; a man elected against the odds, symbol of hope for many, inheritor of a nation in the throes of a catastrophic crisis of identity.
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9780330426237
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks order quantity
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Author: Rebecca Skloot
Published by: Picador Australia
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine.
The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years.
If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons - as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the ... more

 
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