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
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
Clothes ... and other things that matter by Alexandra Shulman
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Chosen by Evening Standard as one of the best books to look forward to in 2020. 'a must-read memoir for even those beyond the fashion set.' - Evening Standard Chosen by Stylist as one of 2020's best non-fiction books. 'In the funny and opinionated Clothes... and other things that matter, former Vogue UK ...Show more
Self Made / On Her Own Ground by A'Lelia Bundles
27.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Soon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale biography of "one of the great success stories of American history" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C.J. Walker--the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist--by her great-great-granddaug ...Show more
Thinking Again by Jan Morris
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A second volume of Jan Morris' diaries, life through the eyes of a legendary writer in her ninth decade.