Stronger: Fighting Back After the Boston Marathon Bombing (FTI) by Jeff Bauman with Bret Witter
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
STRONGER is the New York Times bestselling memoir of Jeff Bauman, the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor. When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing he did was try to sp ...Show more
Labyrinths - Emma Jung, her Marriage to Carl and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis by Catrine Clay
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The story of Emma and Carl Jung's highly unconventional marriage, their relationship with Freud, and their part in the early years of Psychoanalysis. Emma Jung was clever, ambitious and immensely wealthy, one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland when, aged seventeen, she met and fell in love with Car ...Show more
Dare Not Linger by Nelson Mandela
$44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk to Freedom. "I ...Show more
Train to Nowhere: One Woman's War, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator by Anita Leslie
$42.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Train to Nowhere speaks of another mood, a different time and a grittier generation...This, surely, is the second world war we want to rediscover in print' Robert McCrum, Observer'If Evelyn Waugh's Mrs Algernon Stitch had been possessed of a heart, a sense of humour, and a glorious prose style, it coul ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A collection of Bennett's diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015 Alan Bennett's third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories. Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one ...Show more
What Is It All But Luminous by Art Garfunkel
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon & Garfunkel--a memoir (of sorts)- artful, moving, lyrical; the making of a musician; the evolution of a man, a portrait of a life-long friendship and collaboration that became one of the most successful singing duos of their time. Art Garfunkel writ ...Show more
My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage by Ingrid Seward
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When a young Princess Elizabeth met and fell in love with the dashing Naval Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, it wasn't without its problems. The romance between the sailor prince and the young princess brought a splash of colour to a nation still in the grip of post-war austerity. When th ...Show more
Peggy Seeger - First Time Ever - A Memoir by Peggy Seeger
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Peggy Seeger is one of folk music's most influential artists and songwriters. Born in New York City in 1935, she enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and left-wing politics - they remain her lifeblood. After college, she travelled to Russia and China - against US advice - before arriving in London, wher ...Show more
The Wife's Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A Finalist for The Governor General's Award for Nonfiction in Canada In this indelible memoir that recalls the life of her remarkable ninety-five-year old grandmother, Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam tells the story of modern Ethiopia--a nation that would undergo a tumultuous transformation from feud ...Show more
The Unmapped Mind: A Memoir of Neurology, Incurable Disease and Learning How to Live by Christian Donlan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"My daughter took her first steps on the day I was diagnosed - a juxtaposition so perfect, so trite, so filled with the tacky artifice of real life that I am generally too embarrassed to tell anybody about it."Shortly after his daughter Leontine was born, Christian Donlan's world shifted an inch to the ...Show more
The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon by Cherry Lewis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after.In 1817 - exactly 200 years ago - James Parkinson (1755-1824) defined the disease so precisely that we still diagnose it to ...Show more
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story by Christie Watson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* An astonishing memoir about nursing and an urgent call for compassion and kindness'It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh. It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions more than ever' Adam Kay, author of T ...Show more