The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to Be Free by Andy West
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
‘Tense and intimate… an education’ Geoff Dyer ‘Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending’ Lenny Henry ‘Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving’ Terry Waite __________ Can someone in prison be more free than someone outside? Would we ever be good if we never felt shame? What makes a person worthy of ...Show more
Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' - a memoir about finding an identity, a voice and laughter. A funny, elegant, moving memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known authors, a woman who finally rebelled against being a handmaiden. By the time Barbara Else was ...Show more
Landlines by Raynor Winn
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Raynor knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he - can he? - set out with her on another healing walk?Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour and their hope is that it can work its magic agai ...Show more
There's a Cure for This - A Memoir by Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The striking debut memoir from award-winning doctor and writer, Emma Wehipeihana (Emma Espiner). "I graduated as a doctor in 2020 and arrived into the Covid-19 pandemic with my ta moko on my arm, my hospital lanyard, my stethoscope and a purpose. I don't know why medicine felt like coming home. I had n ...Show more
No Protocol for Me - The Triumphs, Trials and Temptations of a Photojournalist in Africa by Maurice Harvey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'Magnificent.' Rachel Clarke 'A book to treasure and reread; I'm very grateful for it.' Gavin Francis As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to m ...Show more
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The powerful, inspiring follow-up to the critically acclaimed, multi-million #1 bestselling memoir Becoming In The Light We Carry, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. She considers the questi ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more
Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop by Alba Donati
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Alba Donati's Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop is not only a work of significant beauty, it's inspiring. It's inspiring about the continuing life of books, and about the ways in which our lives can change and our dreams can come true, if only we insist on believing in changes and dreams' Michael Cunningham, ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights.Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly ...Show more
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour
$62.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Brilliantly written, compulsively readable and insightful' Pat Barker, author of The Silence of the Girls 'A first-class life and a rollicking read ... Close to a masterpiece' Sunday Times An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. An ...Show more