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
Between Me and Myself: A Memoir of Murder, Desire and the Struggle to Be Free by Sandra Willson
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
On 29 April 1959, Sandra Willson, a twenty-year-old trainee psychiatric nurse from Paddington, devastated by the break-up of her relationship with her female lover, left her home and hailed a taxi. Asking the driver to take her to a remote location on the coast near Cronulla, she waited until he had sto ...Show more
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
26.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path. _______ 'Extraordinary: wise, unflinching, exquisite. Profound' Observer 'A thrill to read. The nature writi ...Show more
Car Crash: A Memoir by Lech Blaine
37.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Lech Blaine was just seventeen when he was in a crash that killed his best friends and changed his life. On an evening in 2009, seven teenage boys piled into a car to go to a party. They never arrived. The driver - who was not drunk or high - made a routine error and then overcorrected. The vehicle flew ...Show more
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes by Martha Long
27.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start. As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. But just when it seems thing ...Show more
Michelle Obama - Becoming by Michelle Obama
30.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesThe No. 1 BestsellerBritis ...Show more
Motherwell - A Girlhood by Deborah Orr
24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 'A fitting legacy left by a blazing talent' Observer'A masterpiece' Andrew O'Hagan, Guardian'Completely amazing' Lucy Mangan, Stylist'A modern classic' Daily Mail'Raw, compelling, wise and tender' Dolly Alde ...Show more
The Louder I Will Sing by Lee Lawrence
27.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Shortlisted for the Costa Prize 2020'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known, events in modern British history. Lee's journey and fight for justice are both inspiring and enraging' AKALAWhat would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime again ...Show more
Mudlarking - Lost and Found on the River Thames by Lara Maiklem
24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
'Enchanting' SUNDAY TIMES ... 'Driven by curiosity, freighted with mystery and tempered by chance, wonders gleam from every page' MELISSA HARRISON ... 'Brilliant. No one has looked at these odd corners since Sherlock Holmes' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ... 'Fascinating. There is nothing that Maiklem does not know ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
12.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. As a young man struggling to find his voice as a writer, George Orwell left the comfort of home to live in the impoverished working districts of Paris and London. He would document both the chaos and boredom of de ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Shortlisted Man Booker International 2019 Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of workWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008, and ...Show more