My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
$85.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) an ...Show more
Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's Songs Reimagined by Kirsten Krauth (editor)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This stunning follow up to Minds Went Walking- Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined features Christos Tsiolkas, Cate Kennedy and Andy Griffiths. From an automaton of Nick Cave, to a man who can't keep his blood out of the food he is preparing; from a vengeful Uber driver to a spinner of souls; and from a boy ...Show more
Labour of Love - A Personal History of Midwifery in Aotearoa by Joan Skinner
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has seen extraordinary change, both in the way women are supported to give birth and in the social and political context in which they become mothers. Labour of Love weaves her own experiences as a midwife into the story of childbirth in Aotearoa: the incre ...Show more
My Grandfather's Life - Grandpa, I Want to Know Everything about You. Give to Your Grandfather to Fill in with His Memories and Return to You As a Keepsake by Editors of Chartwell Books
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Creative Keepsakes Ser.
Record your grandfather's life story in this beautiful keepsake journal with 200 guided exercises and prompts that take him back through each stage of his life and its accompanying adventures. Whether called Papa, Grampie, Grandpa, or something else, grandfathers are a family's most-prized treasure ...Show more
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally MannIn this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost geneticall ...Show more
My Own Magic - A Decade of Travel, Tricks and Transformation by Anna Kloots (Contribution by)
$47.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scenes, Anna Kloots felt invisible in her own life. Consumed by a marriage that left no space for her own desires, she chose to reframe the failure of her marriage as an opportunity to begin again. Now, for ...Show more
Toy Fights: A Boyhood by Don Paterson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insanity of Dundee, sugar, religious mania, the sexual excesses of the Scottish club band scene and, more general ...Show more
Bookshop Dogs by Ruth Shaw
$39.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many have great stories, be they funny, sad, strange, bemusing, quirky or sweet. Woven throughout are tales of the very special Hun ...Show more
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger
$42.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof. The seven rules to follow to realise your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, a ...Show more
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
$70.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and art ...Show more
Patrick Stewart - Making It So - A Memoir by Patrick Stewart
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, MAKING IT SO, ...Show more