Phosphorescence: The inspiring bestseller and multi award-winning book from the author of Bright Shining by Julia Baird
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bett ...Show more
Nights in White Castle - A Memoir by Steve Rushin
27.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Picking up where he left off in his acclaimed memoir Sting-Ray Afternoons, Steve Rushin brilliantly captures a bygone era, and the thrills of new adulthood in the early 80s.It begins in Bloomington, Minnesota, with a 13-year-old kid staging his own author photo that he hopes will someday grace the cover ...Show more
Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss by Rachel Clarke
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life, and with the love of life. It brought me often to laughter and - several times - to tears' Robert MacfarlaneFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deepl ...Show more
Breaking and Mending - A Junior Doctor's Stories of Compassion and Burnout by Joanna Cannon
24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The unforgettable memoir from the bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and Three Things About Elsie.
My Last Supper - One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making by Jay Rayner
24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'Hilarious, informative, enlightening, instructive ... It's the funniest book I've read all year' - Chris Evans You're About to Die. What Would Your Final Meal Be? This question has long troubled Jay Rayner. But why wait for death? Why not eat your 'last meal' now, when you can enjoy it? So, he had a ...Show more
Tall Tales and Wee Stories - The Best of Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly
24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday Times In December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinar ...Show more
Motherwell by Deborah Orr
45.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Just shy of 18, Deborah Orr left Motherwell - the town she both loved and hated - to go to university. It was a decision her mother railed against from the moment the idea was raised. Win had very little agency in the world, every choice was determined by the men in her life. And strangely, she wanted t ...Show more
Paws In The Proceedings by Longden, Deric
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Deric's gentle tales of life in Huddersfield with his wife Aileen and their menagerie of playful cats have won him thousands of loyal fans. And after a few years break Deric returns with the latest, and eagerly awaited, instalment of his memoirs. Deric is getting on a bit now and so are his cats. Life c ...Show more
Paris Match: Falling in (love) with the French by John von Sothen
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
An American falls in love and becomes a Parisian - just not the way he imagined. In Brooklyn, John von Sothen fell in love with Anais, a French waitress. And then, one night in Paris, on the Pont Neuf, she agreed to marry him ("Bah, we can always get divorced!"). A couple of decades in, the two have be ...Show more
Her Say - Survivors of Domestic Abuse Tell Their Own Stories by Jackie Clark and the Aunties
35.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
In 2012, Jackie Clark launched The Aunties, a grassroots charity helping women to rebuild their lives after a period of trauma. She quit her job, turning her back on her comfortable life, to focus on The Aunties full-time, becoming Aunty in Charge and assisting hundreds of women with material needs and ...Show more
Fourteen: My Year of Darkness, and the Light that Followed by Shannon Molloy
35.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Fourteen is this generation's Holding the Man - a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man's search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school. This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay kid at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regio ...Show more
Dalai Lama - Definitive Biography by Alexander Norman
38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
The Dalai Lama is one of the best-known and respected public figures of modern times. A Nobel Peace Prize Winner, advocate for peace and campaigner for compassion, he regularly speaks at sell-out arena tours across the globe. In this new biography, Alexander Norman reveals the complex and compelling cha ...Show more