Aphrodite's Breath: A mother and daughter's Greek Island adventure by Susan Johnson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell. In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at the ...Show more
A Waiter in Paris - Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City by Edward Chisholm
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'This astonishing book describes a cruel, feral existence and is worthy of standing on the shelf next to George Orwell's Down And Out In Paris And London (1933) as another classic about human exploitation.' - Daily Mail'Chisholm's story is immersive and often thrilling ... He's a fine writer.' - WSJ'Kit ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by PICK-GOSLAR HANNAH
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
In this never-before-seen memoir, Bergen-Belsen survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar shares incredibly powerful words on the final untold portrait of her childhood friend, Anne Frank. The inspiring and heartbreaking true story of two best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds. When Hannah Pick-Goslar ...Show more
There's a Cure for This - A Memoir by Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The striking debut memoir from award-winning doctor and writer, Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]. "I graduated as a doctor in 2020 and arrived into the Covid-19 pandemic with my ta moko on my arm, my hospital lanyard, my stethoscope and a purpose. I don't know why medicine felt like coming home. I had no ...Show more
Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' - a memoir about finding an identity, a voice and laughter. A funny, elegant, moving memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known authors, a woman who finally rebelled against being a handmaiden. By the time Barbara Else was ...Show more
From There to Here - A Memoir by Joe Bennett
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty. Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty books, and now, at long last, a memoir. From There to Here describes a childhood of fishing, cricket, friends, a dog, some mild molestation and a few deat ...Show more
Hungry to Be Happy: How I Lost and Found My Mind by Harry Averill
$34.00 NZD
Category: Biography
As a fourteen-year-old psych ward patient, Harry realised he had a choice: let anorexia keep ruining his life, or fight back against everything his mind told him was true. Now twenty-two years old, Harry delicately pieces together how his mind derailed to that point, what's happened since he made his c ...Show more
Changes: An Oral History of Tupac Shakur by Sheldon Pearce
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A New Yorker writer’s intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur’s life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death. In the summer of 2020, Tupac Shakur’s single “Changes” became an anthem for the worldwide protests against the murder of George F ...Show more
Second Chances - Facing my demons and finding a better me by Hayley Holt
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A raw and honest story of alcoholism, recovery, and courage in the face of loss Hayley Holt grew up in the public eye. On our screens for over twenty years, her highs and lows have been aired for everyone to see. Now it's time to share her side of the story. Raised a dancer in bedazzled dresses and fake ...Show more
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival. After the show, in a state of a ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir by Sam Neill
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more