A Bloody Good Rant: My Passions, Memories and Demons by Thomas Keneally
45.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Following a lifetime observing Australia and its people, Tom Keneally turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him. 'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The Utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren ...Show more
Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
An intimate and magical memoir about embarking on a road trip with Borges through Scotland and the famed writer's thoughts on literature, love and poetry. In this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years ...Show more
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism by Naoki Higashida
21.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The No. 1 Sunday Times and internationally bestselling account of life as a child with autism, now an award-winning documentary film. 'It will stretch your vision of what it is to be human' Andrew Solomon, The Times What is it like to have autism? How can we know what a person - especially a child - wit ...Show more
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk. Nadia Wassef knows this song by heart. In 2002, with her siste ...Show more
Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more by Natasha Lunn
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A celebration of love in all its strange and beautiful forms. After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as well as drawing ...Show more
Before & Laughter by Jimmy Carr
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
*A memoir and self-help manual by one of the country's most treasured comedians - for anyone who feels stuck in a rut but doesn't have the tools or self-belief to shake things up*In his mid-twenties, Jimmy was bored, boring, unfulfilled and underachieving. He wasn't exactly depressed, but he was very sa ...Show more
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training. Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream: model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workah ...Show more
Renegades - Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen; Barack Obama
80.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-breaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus con ...Show more
Diddly Squat by Jeremy Clarkson
38.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Welcome to Clarkson's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bustling hedgerows, woodlands and natural springs. Jeremy always liked the idea being a farmer. But, while he was barrelling around the world having more fun with cars than was entirely reasonable, it seem ...Show more
In the Wars by Waheed Arian
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'A thrilling and absorbing read from first to last. What a life and what an inspiration.' Stephen Fry __________ Born in war-torn Afghanistan, Waheed Arian's earliest memories are of bombs. Fleeing the conflict with his family, he spent much of his childhood in refugee camps in Pakistan, living sometime ...Show more
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Trent Dalton goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a travelling priest. A wid ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The international bestselling writer Ann Patchett has been described as 'one of the foremost chroniclers of the burdens of emotional inventory and its central place in American lives' and 'a master of her art' (Observer). In her new collection, with her trademark blend of wryness, intelligence and wisdo ...Show more