Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more
Surviving Marmite - A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in New Zealand by Anisa MacLean
$32.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In 2000, when I was just seven years old, my family immigrated from Iran to New Zealand. Fresh off the plane, we settled in Timaru, a port 'city' where everyone farms and wears gumboots under their rugby shorts. There, we stood out like a bunch of Middle Eastern immigrants in a town where everyone farms ...Show more
Mama's Boy: A Memoir by Dustin Lance Black
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'To outsiders, my mom and I should have been enemies. Our house should have been divided -- North vs South, red vs blue, conservative vs progressive, or however you want to put it. Instead, my mom and I fuelled each other. Her oil lit my lamp, and eventually mine lit hers. The tools I'd learned to wiel ...Show more
README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of ...Show more
Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, the instant Sunday Times bestseller by Dolly Alderton
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From the bestselling and beloved author of Everything I Know about Love and Ghosts - the definitive selection of her Dear Dolly agony aunt letters and answers from her hugely popular Sunday Times Style column- with an introduction by Dolly. 'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-pr ...Show more
Bob Dylan - Chronicles - Volume One by Bob Dylan
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the USA, Bob Dylan.“I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.” So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles ...Show more
Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors by Tom Bower
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Tom Bower, Britain's leading investigative biographer, unpicks the tangled web surrounding the Sussexes and their relationship with the royal family. From courtroom dramas to courtier politics, using extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews from insiders who have never spoken before, this book ...Show more
Bryce Courtenay: Storyteller (HB) by Christine Courtenay
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The long-awaited memoir of the late Bryce Courtenay - Australia's bestselling author - as told by his wife, Christine Courtenay. When Christine Courtenay began penning her own life story in lockdown last year, she found herself increasingly drawn into the story of her late husband and bestselling author ...Show more
Sahara: My Journey of Love, Loss and Survival in the Desert by Paula Constant
$43.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Having walked more than 5000 kilometres from Trafalgar Square to Morocco, Paula Constant finds herself at the westernmost edge of the Sahara Desert - and the brink of sanity. The wheels have fallen off her marriage and her funds are quickly drying up, but she is determined to complete the second stage: ...Show more
Woman with the Iceberg Eyes - Oriana F. Wilson by Katherine MacInnes
$44.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Captain Scott's expedition to the Antarctic, the most famous story of exploration in the world, played out on the great ice stage in the south. Oriana Wilson, wife of Scott's best friend and fellow explorer Dr Edward Wilson, was watching from the wings. She is the missing link between many of the notabl ...Show more
Ross Taylor: Black & White by Paul Thomas
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
When an athlete with an exceptional record of achievement and longevity comes to the end of their career, the numbers can speak for themselves.Ross Taylor has scored the most runs, made the most centuries and taken the most catches by a New Zealander in international cricket. He's the first New Zealand ...Show more