After by Nikki Gemmell
35.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Nikki Gemmell's world changed forever when the body of her elderly mother was found and it became clear she had decided to end her own life. After the immediate shock came the guilt and the horror, for Nikki, her family, relatives and friends. No note was left, so the questions that Elayn's euthanasia d ...Show more
Bloody Mary: My Story by Mary Coughlan
27.99 NZD
Category: Biography And Memoir
Since she rose to international fame in 1985 with her seminal Irish jazz album Tired and Emotional, Mary Coughlan's battles with addiction, the problems in her personal life and career have been well documented. But until now she has never spoken of the traumatic events in her childhood that led to a li ...Show more
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
32.99 NZD
Category: Biography And Memoir | Reading Level: very good
During the US book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces, he was being deported 'from the country of the well across the st ...Show more
From Cradle to Stage by Virginia Hanlon Grohl
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
Virginia Grohl, mother of Dave Grohl, had not seen any of it coming. Not the arenas of screaming fans, not Nirvana or the Foo Fighters, not the induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and certainly not her son, Dave, performing with Sir Paul McCartney at The White House. Theirs had always been a ...Show more
The Secrets of My Life by Caitlyn Jenner
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In this remarkable memoir - written with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger during her pivotal first years of rebirth - Caitlyn Jenner reflects on her past as she looks to her future. With poignancy and humour, Caitlyn writes about her confusion growing up, the temporary triumph of the Oly ...Show more
No Place to Lay One's Head: With a Preface from Patrick Modiano by Francoise Frenkel
38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
A bitter, beautiful and important bookRobert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENTThe French sensation, now in English translation.Fran oise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving ...Show more
Keith Richards - Life by Keith Richards
14.99 NZD
29.99 (50% off)
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
As lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics, and the songs that roused the world. A true and towering original, he has always walked his own path, spoken his mind, and done things his own way. Now at last Richards pauses to tell his story in the most anticipated ...Show more
Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir by Alan Cumming
27.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.A beloved star of stage, television, and film--"one of the mo ...Show more
Air Kiss and Tell: Memoirs of a Blow-up Doll by Charlotte Dawson
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Air Kiss and Tell - Memoirs of a Blow-up Doll is a book that shows us that things that are sparkly, glamorous and smooth on the outside can often be a little dark, awkward and unexpectedly windy on the inside. Sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious, Charlotte Dawson recalls many of the more noteworthy st ...Show more
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew
28.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Winner of the Costa Biography Award. Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War, in peacetime he lived on his wits and dazzling charm. But these were not always enough to sustain a family. As his memory began to fail ...Show more
Adventures of a Wonky Eyed Boy by Jason Byrne
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
‘“Mrs.Byrne, you’ve a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy, with a wonky eye.” My mother wept for all the wrong reasons as she was handed me by the midwife. She could have slept with a platypus and still I would have come out better than this.’ So begins Jason Byrne’s Memoir. It was a time wh ...Show more