A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank by Nir Baram
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Award-winning journalist and author Nir Baram spent a year and a half travelling around the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In this fascinating recount of that journey, Baram navigates the conflict-ridden regions and hostile terrain to speak with a wide range of people, among them Palestinian-Israeli citi ...Show more
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
$29.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER * ONE OF NME's BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * ONE OF VARIETY'S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * INCLUDED IN AUDIBLE'S BEST OF THE YEAR LISTSo, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake ...Show more
Made For Goodness by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
As Archbishop of Cape Town at the height of the Apartheid regime in South Africa, Desmond Tutu saw many shocking and violent incidents. Later, as Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as a leading peace negotiator in many troubled parts of the world, he heard many appalling stories o ...Show more
Dying of Politeness - A Memoir by Geena Davis
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, the surprising tale of her "journey to badassery"--from her epically polite childhood to roles that loaned her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood. At three years old, Geena Davis announced she was going to be in movies. Now, ...Show more
The Secret Heart: John le Carre: An Intimate Memoir by Suleika Dawson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life John le Carré led a life entirely constructed of secrets – not just in his first career, as a British spy and agent runner during the height of the Cold War or in his second, as a world-renow ...Show more
Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In Dead People I Have Known, the legendary New Zealand musician Shayne Carter tells the story of a life in music, taking us deep behind the scenes and songs of his riotous teenage bands Bored Games and the Doublehappys and his best-known bands Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer. He traces an intimate history ...Show more
Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens by Arthur Parkinson
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A captivating, beautifully illustrated memoir of a life in nature, and a testament to the mutual rewards and delights of keeping chickens, by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Flower Yard Growing up in an ex-mining town in Nottinghamshire, Arthur Parkinson never wanted a dog, or a cat, or a pon ...Show more
Tell Me Again: A Memoir by Amy Thunig
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding that the story of her birth be retold. Years later, heavily pregnant with her own first child, she learns what really happened that day. It's a tale that exemplifies many of the events of her early life, w ...Show more
Elizabeth: An intimate portrait from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years by Gyles Brandreth
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarchThis intimate, personal biography of Queen Elizabeth II tells the story of her remarkable life, reign and times, from a perspective unlike any other. Gyles Brandreth writes the Queen's tale candidly with grace and sensitiv ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector
$52.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between 1967 and 1977, Clarice Lispector wrote weekly dispatches from her desk in Rio for the Jornal de Brasil. Already famous for her revolutionary, interior, metaphysical novels, in her Chronicles she turns h ...Show more
Gloves Off: Tyson Fury Autobiography by Tyson Fury
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The No-Holds-Barred Autobiography - including the full story behind Tyson's record-breaking victory against Dillian Whyte at Wembley stadium in front of 94,000 peopleTyson pulls no punches in his most candid, comprehensive and entertaining book yet, which chronicles for the first time in full his inspir ...Show more