The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life by Henry Hitchings
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'Delightful' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday'Witty, engaging' Sunday Times'Beguiling and intelligent' TLSThe World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life is a source of profound good sense about what it means to teach, read, write and travel. More than that, though, Samuel Johnson continuall ...Show more
Killing It: A Memoir of Love, Life, Death and Dinner by Camas Davis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
After losing her job as a food journalist, Camas Davis felt totally lost, out of love with her life and the world. She had spent her career writing about food, but she had never forced herself to grapple with how it got to her plate. Now she wanted to change that, she wanted to experience something real ...Show more
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell (updated edition) by David Marr
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
David Marr's explosive bestseller, now expanded and fully updated.In March this year, the nation's most powerful Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, was jailed for child sexual assault. In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man, his career and his ultimate fall. Marr reveals a cleric at ease with power ...Show more
Packing My Library - An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhatta ...Show more
Renia's Diary: A Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Renia Spiegel
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
July 15, 1942, Wednesday Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I'm separated from the world. Renia is a young girl who dreams of becoming a poet. But Renia i ...Show more
My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'A Catch Me If You Can for the internet age... What Anna did was make Instagram flesh.' Guardian 'Anna looked at the soul of New York and recognized that if you distract people with shiny objects, they will be virtually unable to see anything else. And the thing was: it was so easy.' New York Magazine ...Show more
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American Midwest, Shortes ...Show more
Keep Clear: My Adventures with Asperger's by Tom Cutler
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
It is only after a crack-up, at the age of 55, that Tom Cutler gets the diagnosis that allows him to make sense of everything that's come before, including his weird obsessions with road-sign design, magic tricks, spinning tops, and Sherlock Holmes. The final realisation that he has Asperger's allows a ...Show more
Take Six Girls - The Lives of the Mitford Sisters (Illustrated Edition) by Laura Thompson
$59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Writer, countrywoman, Fascist, Nazi, Communist, duchess. Born in that order, they were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald ...Show more
Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2 ...Show more