My Family and Other Rock Stars by Tiffany Murray
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'witty and sweet, and perfectly captures the highs and lows of an extraordinary childhood' Andrew Miller Tiffany's work is like you look out the window and there it is - the sun dancing in the sky . . . My Family And Other Rock Stars will make you grow wings. Get out there now and buy it. The ghost of ...Show more
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Prison Journey - To Hell and Back by Lara Love Hardin
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'Lara Love Hardin shares compelling and important truths in her beautifully told personal story.' PIPER KERMAN, author of the no. 1 New York Times bestseller Orange is the New Black'Thrilling, funny, heartbreaking and moving. I'll return to this book when I need to be reminded of the power of the human ...Show more
First Things by Harry Ricketts
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
In First Things, Harry Ricketts chronicles his early life through the lens of ‘firsts’: those moments that can hold their detail and potency across a lifetime. Set mostly in Hong Kong and Oxford, these bright fragments include the places, people, writers, encounters and obsessions that have shaped Ricke ...Show more
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A charming, hilarious account of Griffin Dunne's coming of age among a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan. At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary L.A. party for the pub ...Show more
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further conversations with my psychiatrist by Baek Sehee
33.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur When Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with her psychiatrist, her hope was to create a reference for herself. She never imagined she would reac ...Show more
George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him' ... a memoir of love, obsession and feathers An Oprah Magazine Book of the Year 2023 'A magical, endearing memoir ... the literary romance of the year' Oprah 'This book pulses with a defiant wonder at the living world, as wild a ...Show more
Wish I Was Here by M. John Harrison
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters' Club M. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author, encomp ...Show more
Never Succumb to Beige by Frances Manwaring
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Not succumbing to beige is about wearing your metaphorical high viz vest with flair and panache—being true to who you are and what you bring to the world. In extended essays drawn from her own colourful life, and traversing the joys of schadenfreude, strategic giftbuying, the value of teeth, and lessons ...Show more
Christopher Isherwood Inside Out by Katherine Bucknell
85.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
An engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him famous. From the editor of Isherwood's diaries and letters An engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him famous. From the editor of Isherwood's diaries and letters. Christopher Isherwo ...Show more
My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by Hannah Pick-Goslar
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Two best friends' lives were about to change for ever, neither would ever be forgotten... 'As a girl I witnessed the world I loved crumble and vanish, destroyed by senseless hatred, and with it, my best friend Anne' When Hannah's family flee from the Nazi to Amsterdam, she soon strikes up a friendship ...Show more
The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The diaries of the last British Governor, five weeks on the Sunday Times best-seller list In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not - as other British colonies over the decades - for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from ...Show more
The Half Bird by Susan Smillie
37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
One woman's solo sailing odyssey - from Land's End to the shores of Greece - explores the unexpected joy of solitude. When Susan set sail from the south-west coast of England on her beloved sailboat, Isean, she was unaware this spontaneous departure would lead to a journey spanning several years and co ...Show more