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".
Hemingway in Love by A. E. Hotchner
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke--a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose telling H ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing ...' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all th ...Show more
The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carre
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.' The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, ...Show more
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a pre-read / used book. Good condition. slight creasing on spine SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a long time to come' Sunday Times 'Seldom ...Show more
First they killed My Father by Loung Ung
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A daughter of Cambodia remembers. Soon to be a Netflix original movie directed by Angelina Jolie. Until age five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of an educated, high-ranking government official. When the Khmer Rouge stormed the city in 1975, the young girl and her family fled from ...Show more
Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Set in present-day Hong Kong, The Expatriates follows the lives of three women. An unspeakable tragedy leaves twenty-something Mercy with a crippling personal inertia, and Margaret, a mother of three, numb and unable to heal. In the same small expatriate community, Hilary tries to distract herself from ...Show more
Wolf Boys by Dan Slater
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
At first glance, Gabriel Cardona was the poster boy American teenager: great athlete, bright, handsome and charismatic. But the streets of his border town of Laredo, Texas, were poor and dangerous, and it wasn't long before Gabriel abandoned his promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug carte ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I ...Show more
I am Brian Wilson: The Genius Behind the Beach Boys by Brian Wilson
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
They say there are no second acts in American lives, and third acts are almost unheard of. That's part of what makes Brian Wilson's story so astonishing. As co-founder member of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever recorded. With int ...Show more
Peggy and Me by Miranda Hart
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Hello dear book browser and welcome to Peggy and Me. The story of my life since getting a beautiful Shih-Tzu Bichon Frise cross puppy (I call the breed a Shitty Frise - fun) in the form of Peggy. Some of you may be thinking: "a book about a dog, how totally brilliant, I need hear no more, I'm sold." In ...Show more