Toy Fights by Paterson D Staff
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A future classic of memoir by one of the greatest writers at work today'A classic of its kind.' - William Boyd'Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant.' - Scotsman'A work of dazzling craft.' - Times Literary Supplement'A memoir in a million.' - Sunday TimesDon Paterson was born in D ...Show more
A Man Named Dave (#3) by Dave Pelzer
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The concluding volume of Dave Pelzer's million-copy bestselling memoir. 'I don't blame others for my problems. I stand on my own. And one day, you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself.' These words were eighteen-year-old Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother, a woman who had a ...Show more
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A Times Best Music Book of 2023*'Glorious! I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Self deprecating and refreshingly honest' - Sunday Times'Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend'Hilarious and so emotionally true' -Cameron Crowe'Taupin' ...Show more
Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary by Nina Stibbe
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' - Meg Mason'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' - Bonnie Garmus'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David NichollsTwenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (D ...Show more
Diary of A Mad Diva by Joan Rivers
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
You know what she says out loud. Can you imagine what she writes in her diary? Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making smash hit I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me (Berkley, 2012), the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, a ...Show more
Internal Medicine - A Doctor's Stories by Terrence Holt
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. "Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives," Internal Medicine finds the compassion from ...Show more
So, Anyway... by John Cleese
$54.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a comedy giant. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-wracking first public appearance, at St Peter's Preparatory School at the age of 8 and 5/6ths; his endlessly peripatetic home life w ...Show more
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy - the Story of Anonymous by Gabriella Coleman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Here is the ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the non-name Anonymous, by the writer the "Huffington Post "says "knows all of Anonymous' deepest, darkest secrets." Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the ...Show more
The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last 'grain race' of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby. In 1939, a young Eric Newby - later renowned as a travel writer of exceptional talent - set sail aboard Moshulu, the largest sailing ship still employed in the transporta ...Show more
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A unique coming-of-age story from the lost world of Arab-Jews In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. 'Remarkable.' Max Hastings, THE SUNDAY TIMES Today the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, a ...Show more
House of Stone by Christina Lamb
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. In 2000, after Robert Mugabe had launched his controversial land reform programme, Nigel Hough held on to a fervent hope that he might keep hold of his ...Show more
A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and His Imperfect Human
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Peter was a confirmed loner and cat hater, until he was given a small, grey (and impeccably handsome) kitten with folded ears by his then girlfriend. The girlfriend went but Norton stayed - in fact, he and Peter became inseparable. Trotting along beside him down the street, having his own chair in resta ...Show more