Dog Years by Mark Doty
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The story of the acclaimed poet's time with his two beloved retrievers - and a poignant, perceptive meditation on life, death, and the nature of canine companionship. Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he find ...Show more
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty by Ash Barty
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where and who I am today. I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, right? But for me and my team it's always been important to reflect on every part of ...Show more
Bryce Courtenay: Storyteller (HB) by Christine Courtenay
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The long-awaited memoir of the late Bryce Courtenay - Australia's bestselling author - as told by his wife, Christine Courtenay. When Christine Courtenay began penning her own life story in lockdown last year, she found herself increasingly drawn into the story of her late husband and bestselling author ...Show more
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (HB) by Shaun Bythell
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown. The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty ...Show more
Verse, Chorus, Monster! by Graham Coxon
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A long-awaited memoir of Blur co-founder, guitar legend and visual artist Graham Coxon. Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to become one of the most innovative and respected guitarists of his generation - but it wasn't always easy. G ...Show more
Motherlands: In Search of Our Inherited Cities by Amaryllis Gacioppo
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Our creation stories begin with the notion of expulsion from our 'original' home. We spend our lives struggling to return to the place we fit in, the body we belong in, the people that understand us, the life we were meant for. But the places we remember are ever-changing, and ever since we left, they c ...Show more
Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a 21st-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine. His most recent work, Grey B ...Show more
The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Vol. 1 - A Restless Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winner, chart-topping recording artist. 'The definitive, scrupulously researched biography of a life steeped in mystery' Observer. The definitive biography of one contemporary ...Show more
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age by Reid Mitenbuler
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II. Deep in the Arctic wilderness, Peter Freuchen awoke to find himself buried al ...Show more
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'A powerful, beautiful book. Its fierce love - of the land, the ocean, the elders and the ancestors - warms the heart and moves the spirit.' - Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming- ...Show more
The House With All The Lights On: Three generations, one roof, a language of light by Jessica Kirkness
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'If I were to tell you our story in sign language—the story of my grandparents and me—I'd begin with a single finger touching my chest.' Jessica Kirkness has traversed the boundary between deaf and hearing cultures all her life. Her memoir tells the story of her grandparents who grew up deaf in a he ...Show more
A Fortunate Woman - A Country Doctor’s Story by Polly Morland
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
‘Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry’ - Sunday Times ‘Contains a profound mesage for the future at a critical moment for general pratcice and us all’ - TLS A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insi ...Show more