The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: near fine
With an introduction by Simon Callow Judgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the opinion that Shakespeare was a genius. Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? And wha ...Show more
Not Right in the Head: How One Family Laughed Their Way Through Alzheimer's by Michelle Wyatt
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A light-hearted, heart-warming account of how one family faced Alzheimer's and how the almost comical events within the secure walls of the nursing home made them realize that humor was the only way through. Michelle Wyatt's mum always joked with the family that if she ever developed Alzheimer's like he ...Show more
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In An Appetite for WonderRichard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continues ...Show more
Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me by Ron Miscavige
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The only book to examine the origins of Scientology's current leader, RUTHLESS tells the revealing story of David Miscavige's childhood and his path to the head seat of the Church of Scientology told through the eyes of his father. Ron Miscavige's personal, heartfelt story is a riveting insider's look a ...Show more
The Shearers by Evan McHugh
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"For much of its history Australia has been described as riding on the sheep's back . . . but if the country rode on anyone's back, it was on the aching, creaking, flexing spines of Australian shearers.' Armed with their blades, a sense of adventure and a relentless work ethic, shearers have been a fund ...Show more
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Bronte's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind th ...Show more
My Father's Fortune : A Life by Michael Frayn
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. In this book he sets out to rediscover that lost land before all trace of it finally disappears beyond recall. As he tries to see it through the eyes his parents and t ...Show more
To Reach the Clouds by Philippe Petit
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
One night in 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak, he gave the high-wire performance of all time, making eight crossings over the course of an hour, 110 floors up above the earth, as a hundred thousand people ...Show more
The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
One of the bestselling memoirs of all time, David Niven's The Moon's a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen. Beginning with the tragic early loss of his aristocratic father, then regaling us with tales of school, army and wartime hi-jinx, Niven shows how, eve ...Show more
Heroes of the Skies by Michael Veitch
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Every veteran has a story. Sometimes these stories become part of family folklore. Sometimes they are too terrible to speak of. In April 1943 Cyril Burcher bombed a German U-boat, killing its entire crew. Thirty years later, a letter arrived for him out of the blue from the daughter of the U-boat capta ...Show more
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Amy Schumer. Her memoir. Need we say more? Amy Schumer is taking the world by storm. In just a few short years, she's become a huge movie star, writing and starring in Trainwreck, not to mention BFFs with Jennifer Lawrence and Judd Apatow, is a media darling, acclaimed as a subversive comic genius, and ...Show more
The Moon's a Balloon: The Guardian's Number One Hollywood Autobiography by David Niven
$27.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Takes readers back to David Niven's childhood days, his humiliating expulsion from school and to his army years and wartime service. After the war, he returned to America and there came his Hollywood success in films such as "Wuthering Heights" and "Around the World in 80 Days".