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
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
I Live a Life Like Yours - A Memoir by Jan Grue
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A profoundly beautiful memoir about living in a vulnerable body, fiercely and tenderly rewriting our understanding of relationships and desire.
Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987 by Helen Garner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Diaries
Finally, Helen Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Recorded with frankness, humour and steel-sharp wit, these accounts of her everyday life provide an intimate insight into the work of one of Australia's greatest living writers. Ye ...Show more
Anna by Amy Odell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Fascinating' Sunday Times 'Deeply sourced and rich with anecdotes' The Times 'Like a nonfiction version of The Devil Wears Prada' Elizabeth Day 'Odell's extensive reporting dredges up a wealth of delightful details' New York Times This definitive biography of Anna Wintour chronicles the steep climb ...Show more
Eat A Peach: A Memoir by David Chang
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The celebrated chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious gets uncomfortably real in his debut memoir. 'Funny, wise, humble, and self-aware. With Eat a Peach, he puts words to so many of the things we all feel' Chrissy Teigen, New York Times bestselling author of Cravings In 2004, Momofuk ...Show more
Rust - A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. A young woman's debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as she returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland. Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly ...Show more
Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life (new Edition) by Roxana Robinson
$53.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is without question the best book ever written on O'Keeffe' New Yorker Born on a wheat farm in Wisconsin in 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia O'Keeffe had her eyes wide open to the beauty of nature from the very beginning, and by her twenties had become a formidable artist, and a striking ...Show more
A Gentle Radical - The Life of Jeanette Fitzsimons by Gareth Hughes
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A major biography of Jeanette Fitzsimons, the hugely influential leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Jeanette Fitzsimons was a visionary, a pioneer and a radical. This is the story of someone who battles National and Labour's lock on parliament and had the courage to challenge political s ...Show more
The Sister -The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea by Sung-Yoon Lee
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in North Korea. Stomping the world stage from the shadows of her secretive state, she is creating headlines and fevered speculation about her role and her future. She is the sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, as her murd ...Show more