Paula by Isabel Allende
15.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
In December 1991, Allende's daughter Paula, aged 26, fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. This book started as a letter to Paula written during the hours spent at her bedside, and became a personal memoir and a testament to the ties that bind families - a brave, enlightening, inspiring true story. Thi ...Show more
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880. ...Show more
The Choice by Bernadette Bohan
32.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
An inspiring story of an ordinary woman's spirited fight against all odds. After defeating breast cancer the first time, when she miscarried a baby, Bernadette Bohan's doctor told her: 'You've got more than most. You have a girl and a boy, so go home and live your life.' Yet twelve years later a little ...Show more
Stuart : A life backwards by Alexander Masters
27.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Stuart, A Life Backwards, is the story of a remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator (ÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂâÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂa middle class scum ponce, if you want to be honest ...Show more
Teacher Man : A memoir by Frank McCourt
27.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
This is the third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers "Angela's Ashes" and "'Tis". In "Teacher Man", Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City! Frank McCourt arrived in ...Show more
The Chains of Heaven : An Ethiopian Romance by Philip Marsden
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago. 'Ethiopia bred in me the conviction that if there is a wider purpose to our life, it is to understand the world, to seek out it ...Show more
My Invented Country : A Memoir by Isabel Allende
24.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A highly personal memoir of exile and homeland, filled with the wit, melancholy and distinctive voice that have charmed readers of her fiction. My Invented Country is a memoir about her native Chile that acknowledges the role of memory and nostalgia in shaping her life, her books, and her very connectio ...Show more
So I Have Thought of You. The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald by Penelope Fitzgerald
27.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist -- and prolific correspondent -- Penelope Fitzgerald. Acclaimed for her exquisitely elegant novels -- including the Booker Prize-winning 'Offshore' -- and superb biographies, Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the finest British authors of ...Show more
Diving-Bell and the Butterfly (movie tie-in cover) by Jean-Dominique Bauby (tr from French Jeremy Leggatt)
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of communication.' In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French 'Elle' and the father of tw ...Show more
Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion. After seven years in a convent, which she left, dismayed by its restrictions, an experience recounted in 'Through the Narrow Gate', Karen Armstrong struggled to establish herself in a new wa ...Show more
Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer by Alexander Maitland
29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-known character and motivations, as well as recounting the details of his extraordinary life. Wilfred Thes ...Show more
Our Little Secret by Duncan Fairhurst
39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Raised in a household where secrets and sick rituals were part of daily life, Duncan was manipulated, bullied and raped from the age of four for over a decade. This is his story. Desperate to escape his father's tyranny, he tried to kill himself.