The Girl in the Green Dress by Jeni Haynes, George Blair-West
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'I didn't know that you're only supposed to have one personality. I didn't realise that having lots of voices in your head was abnormal. But you are protecting yourself. You are protecting your soul, and that's what I did.'An intelligent, poised woman, Jeni Haynes sat in court and listened as the man wh ...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
Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands by Annie Worsley
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose-painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE'I have read pages and pages of this wonderful book, swept away by its beauty and understanding, its chromatic brilliance' ADAM NICOLSON A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a bus ...Show more
Strong Female Character: Nero Book Awards Winner by Fern Brady
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Prizewinner - Nero Prize for Non Fiction 2023 THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER 'An absolute riot. I'm literally going to read it again once I've finished, and I'm a miserable bastard...it's a belter' - FRANKIE BOYLE'A set text for all of us in 2023' - DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITEA summary of my book:1. I'm dia ...Show more
A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
With insight, humour, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and inc ...Show more
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Welcome to Sotheran's, the oldest, most bonkers bookshop in the country, with its bizarre clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabelled keys, poisoned books, some things that aren't even books, and deeply eccentric staff. Think Diary of a Bookseller but with quite a lot more Bernard Black.Some years ago, ...Show more
Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion by Alfons Kaiser
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A Financial Times Book of the Year: the definitive story of fashion's most enigmatic icon. Karl Lagerfeld lived a very public life. He shaped the Chanel and Fendi brands for decades, and his wit and wisdom amused and informed the world. Yet despite a massively public persona, his hinterland remained unk ...Show more
Running Free - The Autobiography by Robin Knox-Johnston
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston burst to fame when he became the first man ever to complete a single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation of the world. Now, 50 years on from that famous voyage, he reveals the true, extraordinary story of his life. After leaving school, he immediately joined the Royal Naval Reser ...Show more
The Duchess Who Dared: The Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Charles Castle
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The extraordinary story behind A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany.
Casting Off : A Memoir by Elspeth Sandys
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: Near Fine
At the end of the first volume of Elspeth Sandys absorbing memoir, What Lies Beneath, an adult Elspeth has solved the riddle of her birth parents and begun to piece together the events of her early life and find her place in the world. Casting Off begins on the eve of Elspeths first marriage. She and he ...Show more