Will by Mark Will Smith Manson
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The 'Event' Autobiography of the Year now out in paperback - a brave, inspiring and wildly entertaining memoir full of self-help lessons for readers, from one of the world's most charismatic and much-loved actors The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller PRAISE FOR WIL ...Show more
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay
45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life. From Bletchley Park cod ...Show more
By My Hands by Florian Gadsby
55.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The internet's favorite potter opens up about his life and craft in this inspiring, stunningly photographed ode to the beauty of small things that brighten life's daily rituals.Florian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery, refining his technique towards the point of perfection--and as his skill has gr ...Show more
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER, OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD IN HARDBACK TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR 'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' Red PSYCHIATRIST- So how can I help you?ME- I don't know, I'm ...Show more
Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia by Hadley Freeman
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
From Hadley Freeman, the bestselling author of House of Glass, comes her searing and powerful memoir about mental ill health and her experience with anorexia.This is how the Anorexia Speak worked in my head:'Boys like girls with curves on them' - If you ever eat anything you will be mauled by thuggish b ...Show more
Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog
55.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human exper ...Show more
Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on ...Show more
The Nature of Honour by David McBride
42.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Son, father, soldier, lawyer, adventurer, crusader - tells the colourful and fascinating life story of David McBride. Son of the renowned Sydney obstetrician, Dr William McBride, who raised the alarm on the anti-nausea drug thalidomide in the 1960s and was later struck off the medical register for falsi ...Show more
The Fruit Cure: The story of extreme wellness turned sour by Jacqueline Alnes
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to ...Show more
Jenny McLeod - A Life in Music by Norman Meehan
50.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Born in 1941, at age five she discovered she could read music fluently. After a childhood in Timaru and Levin, she went on to study music with Douglas Lilburn and Frederick Page at Victoria University College, and in Europe with two imposing figures of mid-twentieth century modernism: Olivier Messiaen a ...Show more
End Times by Rebecca Priestley
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
In the late 1980s, two teenage girls found refuge from a world of cosy conformity, sexism and the nuclear arms race in protest and punk. Then, drawn in by a promise of meaning and purpose, they cast off their punk outfits and became born-again Christians. Unsure which fate would come first - nuclear ann ...Show more
Robert Lord Diaries by Chris Brickell (Editor); Vanessa Manhire (Editor); Nonnita Rees (Editor)
45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
‘Sometimes I wonder why I have been forced to spend my creative life grappling with words & the logic & rationality they demand … I wish I could find a way of reaching directly into another’s heart. Words are my only tool. Sometimes I think perhaps I have not worked hard enough. I am still alive ...Show more