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.
A Lion In The Bedroom by Pat Cavendish O'Neill
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Out of Print Ser.
Pat Cavendish O'Neil was born into a world of enormous riches, eccentricity and intrigue. Her mother, Enid Lindeman of the Australian wine family, was a famous beauty who married four times. Two husbands were millionaires, two had titles and none lived long. Somerset Maugham jokingly dubbed his dazzling ...Show more
Flaubert by Frederick Brown
50.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Gustave Flaubert, whose "Madame Bovary" outraged France's right-thinking bourgeoisie when it was first published in 1836, is brought to life in Frederick Brown's new biography in all his singularity and brilliance. Frederick Brown's portrayal is of an artist fraught with contradictions - his wit and bra ...Show more