The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist's Journey Through Life by Dr Richard Shepherd
38.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death.This book is about death, but in it I will take readers on a journey through life... How can death tell us about life? Conducting many thou ...Show more
Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon
29.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A new Sunday Times bestseller from Bryony Gordon, Telegraph columnist and author of the bestselling The Wrong Knickers. For readers who enjoyed Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive and Ruby Wax's Sane New World, Mad Girl is a shocking, funny, unpredictable, heart-wrenching, raw and jaw-droppingly truthful ...Show more
Rememberings (HB) by Sinead O'Connor
48.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, fearless activism, and of the enduring power of song. Blessed with a singular voice and a fiery temperament, Sinéad O'Connor rose to massive fame in the late 1980s ...Show more
Parisian Lives - Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir by Deirdre Bair
24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written - or even read - a biography herself. The next seven years of intimate conversations, in ...Show more
House of Kwa by Mimi Kwa
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Wild Swans meets Flesh Wounds in this riveting family saga spanning four generations The dreamer boy travelling on dragon hide ... a tiger running alone in the night ... Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the news was so shocking her hair turned grey. Why would a father ...Show more
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: The New York Times bestseller by Lauren Hough
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A memoir in essays about so many things--growing up in an abusive cult, coming of age as a lesbian in the military, forced out by homophobia, living on the margins as a working class woman and what it's like to grow into the person you are meant to be. Hough's writing will ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a ...Show more
Howards End Is On The Landing - A Year Of Reading From Home by Susan Hill
28.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read or forgotten she owned or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking new purchases in or ...Show more
Debbie Reynolds - Unsinkable - A Memoir by Debbie Reynolds
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In the closing pages of her 1988 autobiography Debbie: My Life, Debbie Reynolds wrote about finding her brave, loyal, and loving new husband. After two broken marriages, this third, she believed, was her lucky charm. But within a few years, Debbie discovered that he had betrayed her emotionally and fina ...Show more
Yearbook - Seth Rogen by Seth Rogen
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people's searches using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks ...Show more
The Lost Cafe Schindler by Meriel Schindler
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history. Were they really related to Franz Kafka and Oscar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame? Or Hitler's Jewish doctor - Dr Bloch? What really ...Show more
Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
24.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A fascinating exploration into the human relationship to swimming and our innate connection to water.'A jewel of a book, a paean to the wonders of water and our place within it' James Nestor, bestselling of author of Breath 'Glorious' The New York Times Take a dive into the deep and discover what it is ...Show more