Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure whose extraordi ...Show more
Fighting Fate by Justin Yerbury
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Pursued by 'the beast' of motor neurone disease, groundbreaking scientist Justin Yerbury wrote this extraordinary memoir entirely with eye movements. It is the sharpest possible lens on the value of life and hope. Justin Yerbury made a promise to his mother while she was dying of motor neurone disease ...Show more
From There to Here - A Memoir by Joe Bennett
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty. Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty books, and now, at long last, a memoir. From There to Here describes a childhood of fishing, cricket, friends, a dog, some mild molestation and a few deat ...Show more
Sylvia Pankhurst - Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A wonderful book ... Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia's extraordinary life' The Times'A masterpiece' Vanessa Redgrave Born into one of Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel. A free spirit and radical visionary, history placed her in the shadow of her famous mo ...Show more
What It Feels Like for a Girl by Paris Lees
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I don't know what it is about heights. I'm scared of 'em. Dead scared. But not of fallin'. I'm scared of jumpin'. Coz whenever I'm high up, I get this overwhelmin' urge to just... leap off.' Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for "talkin' li ...Show more
The Woman with the Cure by Lynn Cullen
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
She gave up everything - and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and ‘50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one’s life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its ...Show more
Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Terrific... Very funny' Guardian What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawe ...Show more
Life Keeps Me Dancing: 108 years well lived, grounded in creativity, adventure and love by Eileen Kramer
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'I am not old. I have just been here for a long time.' Eileen Kramer has lived the most extraordinary life. Born just after Australia entered World War I, she embraced creativity and adventure from an early age. She danced and painted murals in Karachi; worked as an artist's model in Paris and London; ...Show more
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her 10 years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in 16 countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter.
After A Funeral by Diana Athill
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The story of Diana Athill's relationship with Didi - a gifted writer and an Egyptian in exile - and a remarkably honest, poignant look at love and grief. This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to take his own life. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she ...Show more
Burning Boy by Paul Auster
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A major re-assessment of the genius of Stephen Crane - best known for The Red Badge of Courage.
Never Finished - Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within by David Goggins
$89.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Can't Hurt Me, David Goggins' smash hit memoir, demonstrated how much untapped ability we all have but was merely an introduction to the power of the mind. In Never Finished, Goggins takes you inside his Mental Lab, where he developed the philosophy, psychology, and strategies that enabled him to learn ...Show more