Richard Emerson: the Hopfather by Michael Donaldson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Richard Emerson is one of our pre-eminent brewers, a trailblazer who is often lauded as the godfather of craft beer in New Zealand. Born profoundly deaf in 1960s Dunedin, Emerson triumphed against all odds to launch Emerson's Brewery in 1992. He went on to create a string of unique, award-winning beers, ...Show more
You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956-1986 — Volume 2 by C.K. Stead
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: C. K. Stead Memoirs Ser.
New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everyman - poet, novelist, critic, activist - C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study a ...Show more
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
"Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again."-David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon One of the New York Times' "20 most antici ...Show more
Welcome Home - A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters by Lucia Berlin
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
"As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as the brightest diamond." --Kristin Iversen, NYLON NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. Named a Fall Read by Buzzfeed, Vulture, Newsday and HuffPost A compilation of sketches, photographs, and letters, Welcome Home is an essentia ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
One Minute Crying Time by Barbara Ewing
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s - a very different time - and ends in 1962, when she boards a ship for London, to study at the Royal Acade ...Show more
Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms. Unfortunately, Shaun also has to c ...Show more
Not That I'd Kiss a Girl by Lil O'Brien
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A heartbreaking and hilarious true story of coming out as gay in New Zealand. Lil O'Brien accidentally outed herself to her parents at the age of nineteen when they overheard her talking to a friend about liking girls. Half an hour later she found herself on the side of the road, with instructions to co ...Show more
Under the Covers: Secrets of a Magazine Editor by Jenny Lynch
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Former editor Jenny Lynch takes the wraps off the unreported side of life in print, explodes myths, unearths secrets and shows that even on seemingly conservative publications such as the New Zealand Woman's Weekly things were seldom exactly as they seemed. Her memoir, aptly titled "Under the Covers", i ...Show more