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To The End Of The World - Travels with Oscar Wilde by Rupert Everett
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The extraordinary and outrageous memoir from award-winning writer and actor Rupert Everett. They say that sometimes ghosts don't realise they're dead and wander around screaming because no one is paying them any attention. Well, in show business you may have been dead five years before you finally twig ...Show more
More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
How to be an older woman? Who knows. Being a young woman can be challenging. But it turns out not even a fraction of the bullshit has happened to you by the time you turn thirty. Because your thirties, forties and beyond see you dealing with Real Life, the stuff you never thought would happen to you- gr ...Show more
Shakespearean: Life According to Shakespeare by Robert McCrum
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Why do we return to Shakespeare time and again?When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became h ...Show more
A Year at the Chateau by Dick Strawbridge; Strawbr
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside, the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairytale chateau, complete with 45 rooms, seven outbuildings, 12 acres of land and its own moat. Thro ...Show more
Tea and Scotch with Bradman (HB) by Roland Perry
$45.00 NZD
Category: Sport | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Discovering the man behind the legend In 1995, journalist and author Roland Perry wrote to Sir Donald Bradman requesting an interview for a biography he was planning of the great cricketer. Surprisingly, the Don agreed. It was the start of a conversation that continued for years, during which the real B ...Show more
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers - her psychotherapy group - and in turn finds human connection, and herself. Christie Tate had just b ...Show more
Stories of Hope: Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives by Heather Morris
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more
The Windsor Diaries: 1940-45 by Alathea Fitzalan Howard
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The Windsor Diaries are the never-before-seen diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard, who lived alongside the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at Windsor Castle during the Second World War. Alathea's home life was an unhappy one. Her parents had separated and so during the war she was sent to live wi ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$45.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy. Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub Catch a Rising Star as a twenty-one-year-old student in autumn of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved eve ...Show more
The Wild Silence (#2) by Raynor Winn
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Raynor Winn's magical and life-affirming new book, The Wild Silence - the follow-up to the uplifting, Sunday Times, internationally bestselling, Wainwright prize shortlisted, and Costa shortlisted, The Salt Path. In The Salt Path, Raynor and Moth go out to find the sea, the windswept and wild coastline, ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more