On Call - The Anatomy of My Life As a Surgeon, a Daughter, a Mother by Ineke Meredith
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Frank, sharp-witted and heart-rending, On Call is a stunning memoir by a female Samoan-New Zealand general surgeon about life, death, and the human limits of care As soon as she could, Ineke Meredith left her family home in Samoa for New Zealand, filled with determination not to be like her mother: lov ...Show more
Going Solo (Classic Collection) by Roald Dahl
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: The\Roald Dahl Classic Collection
Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the ...Show more
Boy: Tales of Childhood (Classic Collection) by Roald Dahl
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine. This beautiful edition of Boy, part of The Roald Dahl Cla ...Show more
The Stirrings - A Memoir in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: the North of England in the 1970s and 80s. About the scorching summer of 1976 - the last Catherine Taylor would spend with both her parents in their home in Sheffield. About the Yorkshire Ripper, the ser ...Show more
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life. From Bletchley Park cod ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$39.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Private Equity by Carrie Sun
$39.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A gripping memoir of one woman's self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture When we meet Carrie Sun, she can't shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie excelled in school, graduat ...Show more
Stay True by Hua Hsu
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, TIME, Rolling Stone 'One of the best nonfiction books about friendship ever, right up there with Patti Smith’s Just Kids’ – The Atlantic When Hua Hsu first meets Ken in a Berkele ...Show more
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage. In her mid-thirties Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot--an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those ye ...Show more
Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor by Roger Lewis
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsom ...Show more
Widow Basquiat - A Memoir by Jennifer Clement
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Canons | Reading Level: near fine
Madonna. Andy Warhol. Keith Haring. Fab 5 Freddie. Debbie Harry. Julian Schnabel. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into the company of many of New York's established and aspiring stars. Unable to deal with the demands that his ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
$32.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A collection of letters from John le Carre, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood to his final yearsA Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carre's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness ...Show more