Fox and I - An Uncommon Friendship by Catherine Raven
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A solitary woman's inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative power of her unusual friendship with a wild fox. Catherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive father and an indifferent mother. Drawn to the natural world, she worked as a ranger in national parks, ...Show more
Liar's Autobiography by Chapman Graham
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Graham Chapman reveals what it was like to be part of the revolutionary and zany Monty Python teamRequired reading for Monty Python fans, this true and false memoir is Graham Chapman's own hilarious account of his life as a Python and as a homosexual. The book equals Joe Orton's famous Diaries in provid ...Show more
Consolations Of The Forest: Alone In A Cabin In The Middle Taiga by Sylvain Tesson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Wellbeing & Inspiration
Sylvain Tesson, found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the middle taiga, on the shores of Baikal, for six months. Noting carefully his impressions of the silence, Sylvain Tesson shar ...Show more
A Home-Grown Cook: The Dame Alison Holst Story by Alison Holst
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Dame Alison Holst holds more titles than her damehood suggests: she's been invariably described as 'Mother of the Nation', 'Queen of the Kitchen' and 'a groundbreaker in the culinary world'. In the sixties, Dame Alison singlehandedly changed the way women prepared food for their families with her legend ...Show more
Goldie by Roger Blackley
$70.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Charles F. Goldie (1870-1947) is one of New Zealand's best known artists, with mystique surrounding his work. His fame has been fed by newspaper reports documenting record-shattering prices, thefts, vandalism and forgeries. The book explores Goldie's career, his early still life paintings, his time as a ...Show more
Alberto Giacometti - A Biography by Flammarion; Catherine Grenier
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Alberto Giacometti is more than a major twentieth-century artist-he is also one of the century's most intriguing characters. This biography, the result of new research, takes us into the private life of an artist haunted by his oeuvre, driven relentlessly by an uncompromising and demanding nature. Follo ...Show more
Activism, Feminism, Politics and Parliament by Margaret Wilson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Margaret Wilson has always lived a political life. From her days as a child growing up in the Waikato in a Catholic family attuned to fairness, an unlikely law student in the 1960s in a class with a few other women, and an emerging socialist feminist who read radical texts and attended women’s conventio ...Show more
Things I Learned at Art School by Megan Dunn
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From the writer who brought you Tinderbox, a book about a woman trying to write a book, comes Things I Learned at Art School, a memoir by a woman who has never kept a diary. Until now. Part memoir, part essay collection, Megan Dunn’s ingenious, moving, hilariously personal Things I Learned at Art School ...Show more
Brood - A Novel by Jackie Polzin
$44.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
"A wonderfully written first novel, full of nuance and humor and strangeness...[Polzin] writes beautifully about everything." --Elizabeth McCracken, The New York Times An exquisite new literary voice--wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Str ...Show more
National Identity - Confessions of an Outsider by Simon Bridges
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
An open, honest and at times intensely personal memoir about race, fatherhood, marriage, masculinity, fitting in, and the things that shape our national character. Simon Bridges grew up as the son of a working-class Baptist preacher in Te Atatu, as the youngest of six children. In many ways he had a typ ...Show more
God's Architect by Rosemary Hill
$51.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widow ...Show more
The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics by Jim Morrison; Tom Robbins (Foreword by)
$75.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks.Created in collaboration with Jim Morrison’s estate and inspired by a posthumously discovered list entitled “Pla ...Show more