Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A major new biography published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, offering a fresh, human portrayal "Illuminating. . . . Tunbridge's pithy A Life in Nine Pieces is different and welcome: a biography presented through the focus of nine different compositions."--Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian" ...Show more
The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more evident to the lovers of her novels than in the pages of her letters. This handsome celebration of Auste ...Show more
Pour Me: A Life by A. A. Gill
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'A. A. Gill, the man who makes a living getting beneath the skin of things, whether it's television, restaurants or places round the world - has skinned himself' Vanity Fair A. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon. He ...Show more
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has be ...Show more
Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more t ...Show more
The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free' The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert's fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran's feared Islamic Revolutionary Gu ...Show more
Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Athill's debut, and a modern classic memoir: a moving story of love and loss, heartbreak and hope during the second world war. Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to ...Show more
Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorised!) Biography of Golf's Most Colourful Superstar by Alan Shipnuck
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A rollicking good time." --Golfweek * "Thoroughly engaging." --The Washington PostA juicy and freewheeling biography of legendary golf champion Phil Mickelson--who has led a big, controversial life--as reported by longtime Sports Illustrated writer and bestselling author Alan S ...Show more
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
Ma'am Darling - 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE SOUTH BANK SKY ARTS LITERATURE AWARD 2018 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' Mail on Sunday 'I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich' Observer She made John Lenn ...Show more
Chasing the Light
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success of Platoon in 1 ...Show more
Car Crash: A Memoir by Lech Blaine
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Lech Blaine was just seventeen when he was in a crash that killed his best friends and changed his life. On an evening in 2009, seven teenage boys piled into a car to go to a party. They never arrived. The driver - who was not drunk or high - made a routine error and then overcorrected. The vehicle flew ...Show more