Bacon in Moscow by James Birch
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true' Grayson Perry This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount the ground-breaking retrospective of Francis Bacon's work at the newly refurbished Central House of Artists, Mo ...Show more
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace' - Patricia Highsmith (New Year's Eve, 1947). Made famous by the great success of her psychol ...Show more
Orwell The New Life by D.J. Taylor
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A fascinating exploration of George Orwell--and his body of work--by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to twenty-first-century readers. We find ourselves in an era when the moment is ripe for a reevaluation of the life and the works of one of the twentieth ...Show more
The Real Enid Blyton by Nadia Cohen
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
She is the most prolific childrens author in history, but Enid Blyton is also the most controversial. A remarkable woman who wrote hundreds of books in a career spanning forty years, even her razor sharp mind could never have predicted her enormous global audience. Now, fifty years after her death, Enid ...Show more
You Will Feel It In The Price Of Bread: A Love Letter to Ukraine by Katya Hudson
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Both a celebration and a lament for Ukraine, a moving personal memoir taking us from Katya's idyllic childhood with her siblings- holidays in Crimea and carefree days working the land at the Dacha; to the sickening impact of Putin's invasion and its effect on Katya, her friends and family - the anxiety, ...Show more
The Survivor by Josef Lewkowicz; Michael Calvin
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The extraordinary true story of the Holocaust survivor who endured six death camps before joining the hunt for the Nazis and bringing his tormentors to justice. One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit, unshakeable fait ...Show more
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine by Sophie Duncan
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A cultural, historical and literary exploration of the birth, death and legacy of the ultimate romantic heroine - Shakespeare's Juliet Capulet'An astonishing tour-de-force... Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerJuliet Capulet is the heartbeat of the world's most famous love story. ...Show more
All Blacks Don't Cry: A Story of Hope (Revised edition) by John Kirwan
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
All Blacks Don't Cry is the remarkable story of hope and healing from well-known mental health campaigner, and legendary former winger, Sir John Kirwan. While 'JK' is now famous for sharing his own experiences with depression, there was a time when he suffered alone. One of the most devastating wingers ...Show more
Freezing Order: Vladimir Putin, Russian Money Laundering and Murder - A True Story by Bill Browder
29.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry ‘Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Belton ‘A jaw-dr ...Show more
A Girlhood: A Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
When Carolyn Hays's child made clear to the family that they were all wrong, he was not a boy, but, in fact, a girl, the Hays shifted pronouns, adopted a nickname and encouraged her to dress as she felt comfortable. One ordinary day, a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families knocked on t ...Show more
README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of ...Show more
Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov
37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a 21st-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine. His most recent work, Grey B ...Show more