No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island off ...Show more
Rough Beauty - Forty Seasons of Mountain Living by Karen Auvinen
$27.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Helen MacDonald's H Is for Hawk, Karen Auvinen, an award-winning poet, ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life's big questions with "candor and] admirable courage" (Christian Science Monitor). Determined to live an independent li ...Show more
Let Me Not Be Mad - A Story of Unravelling Minds by A. K. Benjamin
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Let Me Not Be Mad is an immersive, virtuosic and provocative investigation of madness, love and self-destruction that defies categorisation. 'Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat' Guardian 'I have rarely read a more haunting and enthralling account of a descent into madness' Stephen Fry 'Stun ...Show more
James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker
$42.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
James Joyce was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, but he was not immediately recognised as such; rather he lived in exile in the cosmopolitan Europe of the 1920s in a bid to escape the suffocating atmosphere and parochial prejudices of his native Dublin. His unstinting dedication to ...Show more
Dalai Lama - The Definitive Biography by Norman Alexander
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Impressive in its clarity this biography is the most detailed and accurate to date. Written in an engaging prose, it ends with an insightful prediction of the legacy of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and a cleareyed assessment of the challenges that the fifteenth will face' The New York TimesThe Dalai Lama ...Show more
Graham Greene: The Last Interview by Graham Greene
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
A master of twentieth century fiction, Graham Greene looks back on his life. This volume also includes several key interviews from throughout his long, fruitful career. Graham Greene led one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. The son of a Hertfordshire headmaster, he quickly d ...Show more
Hiking with Nietzsche - Becoming who you are by John J Kaag
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
A man goes in search of himself in the Swiss Alps with the help of Nietzsche.
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for her subjects to bear on one of our greatest, and most elusive, novelists. Widely acclaimed as the finest of Austen biographies, the book offers us "a brave, sharp-tongued character who fairly bounces off the pag ...Show more
The Invisible Writing by Arthur Koestler
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Vintage Classics
Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of twentieth-century man and his dilemma. Arrow in the Blue ended with his joining the Communist Party and The Invisible Writing covers some of the most important experiences in his life. This book tells of Koestle ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one novels - several of which are now established classics - Maugham expertly concealed a private life. Predo ...Show more
The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
$32.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, this book is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft.
The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her si ...Show more