Joanna Margaret Paul: Imagined In The Context of a Room by Lucy Hammonds
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A significant publication that accompanies a major retrospective exhibition of the same name developed by Dunedin Public Art Gallery in partnership with the Sarjeant Art Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui. Joanna Margaret Paul is one of the major figures of our recent art history - an innovative and exp ...Show more
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz - The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas c ...Show more
The Good Mothers: the True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
We live in their buildings, work in their companies, shop in their stores, eat in their restaurants, and elect politicians they fund. Founded more than 150 years ago by shepherding families in the toe of Italy, the 'Ndrangheta is today the world's most powerful mafia, with a crushing presence in Souther ...Show more
Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love by MURAKAMI HARUKI
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet. Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Haruki Murakami's books have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans ...Show more
I am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and C ...Show more
My Mother, Munchausen's and Me by Helen Naylor
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
There was a time when I loved my mother. It's shocking to imply that I stopped loving my mum because mothers always love their children and always do their best for them. Mothers are supposed to be good. But my mother wasn't good. Ten years ago, Helen Naylor discovered her mother, Elinor, had been faki ...Show more
Wayward: Just Another Life to Live by Vashti Bunyan
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'An epic in miniature . . . I loved - and lived - every sentence' - Benjamin Myers. In 1968, Vashti Bunyan gave up everything and everybody she knew in London to take to the road with a horse, wagon, dog, guitar and her then partner. They made the long journey up to the Outer Hebrides in an odyssey of ...Show more
Grand: Becoming my mother's daughter by Noelle McCarthy
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The astonishing debut memoir about mothers and daughters, drinking, birth and loss, running away and homecoming from prize-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy. "I'll be grand, girl, I've great faith." —Mammy, just before she died. Funny, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in p ...Show more
Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Captain James Cook's three epic journeys between 1768 and 1779 were the last great voyages of discovery. Sailing some 170,000 miles, Cook's ships reached every continent and every ocean, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Kamchatka to Java to Easter Island to the coast of Oregon. Before Cook set off ...Show more
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, ...Show more
Lee Miller's War - Beyond D-Day by Lee Miller + Antony Penrose (Editor)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Lee Miller's work for Vogue from 1941-1945 sets her apart as a photographer and writer of extraordinary ability. The quality of her photography from the period has long been recognized as outstanding, and its full range is shown here, accompanied by her brilliant despatches. Starting with her first repo ...Show more