Louise Sutherland: Spinning the Globe by Bronwen Wall
$20.00 NZD
Category: Cycling | Series: New Zealand Cycling Legends
Louise was a small woman with a big heart. She knew virtually nothing about bicycles, except what really mattered, and so became a cycling legend without winning a single race. Instead Louise Sutherland planned her own route - one that was far longer and rougher than any Tour de France. She was the firs ...Show more
The Longest Day: Standing up to Depression and Tackling the Coast to Coast by Matt Calman
$34.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
What do you do when you reach rock bottom? Matt Calman's most consistent tool for dealing with problems throughout his life was alcohol. But it got to the stage where he was no longer willing to put up with the dark side of his drinking. So he quit. But the problems that had been simmering away for most ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics
One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century ... A journey from luminous childhood, through the dark experiences of supposed madness, to the renewal of her life through writing fiction. It is a heroic story, and told with such engaging tone, humorous perspective and imaginative power' Micha ...Show more
Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame; Linda Grant (Editor, Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Welcome to the comical, ironical, and multiple worlds of one Violet Pansy Proudlock (a ventriloquist), who is also known as Alice Thumb (a gossip and secret sharer of limited imaginings) and, at other times, as Mavis Furness Barnwell Halleton (a writer twice married).
How to Escape from Prison by Paul Wood
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A book on how to break free from prison A powerful lesson in personal change As an 18-year-old, Dr Paul Wood was completely off the rails. He wasn't coping with the impending death of his mother, he was dependent on drugs, and was an unemployed high-school dropout committing crimes to feed his habit. Tw ...Show more
A Sharp Left Turn - Notes on a life in music, from Split Enz to Play It Strange by Mike Chunn
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A rollicking yarn about the early days of ground-breaking band Split Enz, but also the powerful story of how Mike Chunn dealt with a crippling mental health issue and went on to become one of our most influential music identities. This is a gripping read that works on several levels. It's the sliding-do ...Show more
On Coming Home (BWB Texts) by Paula Morris
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: BWB Texts
'The declamatory return; a homeland as a 'wearying enigma'. This all makes sense to me. The New Zealand that's home to me may be a place of sheep and rugby and number-eight wire, whatever that is, but it's also none of those things. Am I still a New Zealander?' Award-winning writer Paula Morris confront ...Show more
The Bike and Beyond: Life on Two Wheels (BWB Texts) by Laura Williamson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: BWB Texts
'The bicycle is a time machine, a link to the past. But sometimes the bicycle also feels like a link to the future - not the future we once imagined, the one with flying cars and replicators, but more like the one the Victorians might have pictured: streets crowded with bikes, strange ones of all kinds. ...Show more
April Fool's Day: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that's how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love. Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering ...Show more
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilari ...Show more
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the a ...Show more
The Quick and the Dead - True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist by Cynric Temple-Camp
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Dr Cynric Temple-Camp's suspense-filled, often Gothic story-telling ability captivated readers in his debut book, The Cause of Death. In the Quick and the Dead, New Zealand's self-confessed aficionado of death is back with more mysterious illnesses, gruesome murders, baffling crimes, and the other curio ...Show more