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Kamala's Way by Dan Morain
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
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Olive, Mabel and Me by Andrew Cotter
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
"My name is Andrew Cotter and once upon a time I was a sports broadcaster. In Olive, Mabel and Me I try to explain how it can be that after a career commentating on Olympic Games, World Cups and Wimbledon finals, I am now far better known for describing the daily lives of my Labradors, Olive and Mabel. ...Show more
I Am an Island by Tamsin Calidas
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'The memoir of the year' - Vogue 'Completely astonishing...the fragility of life transcended and restored by the triumphant pull of a determination to survive' - Juliet Nicolson When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home. Disenchanted by Lo ...Show more
Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark by Julia Baird
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bet ...Show more
A Seat at the Table by Amy Raphael
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'Fascinating and illuminating' STYLIST 'Perceptive and candid' IRISH TIMES 'Wide-ranging, deep-dive, soul-baring interviews, full of candid, intimate, spiky meditations on inspiration, artistry, sexuality, race, love, self-doubt, abuse, defiance and everything in between' OBSERVER 'Variously optimistic, ...Show more
Down in the Valley - A Writer's Landscape by Laurie Lee
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I realized that nowhere was like this.' Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood vi ...Show more
Plagued by Fire - The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biog ...Show more
The Storm Within: The Autobiography of a Legend by Cameron SMITH, with Andrew WEBSTER
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
***CAPTAIN OF THE 2020 TELSTRA NRL PREMIERSHIP WINNERS THE MELBOURNE STORM*** Cameron Smith AM is the most decorated rugby league player of all time. The recipient of numerous Dally M and Golden Boot awards, he has starred in the toughest league competition on the planet every season since he made his N ...Show more
Federer - The Greatest of All Time by Chris Bowers
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Roger Federer is not only one of the greatest tennis players ever to pick up a racket - if not the greatest - but he is one of the global icons of our time. Characterised by a mixture of passion and calmness, a fierce competitor with a regal bearing, he is both an athlete and an ambassador, a street fig ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy - A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Film Tie In Edition) by J. D. Vance
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Coming November 2020 as a major motion picture starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close 'The political book of the year' Sunday Times 'A frank, unsentimental, harrowing memoir ... A superb book' New York Post 'I bought this to try to better understand Trump's appeal ... but th ...Show more
Greenlights (PB) by Matthew McConaughey
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. 'I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clue ...Show more
Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman 'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald 'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree 'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell 'I was entrance ...Show more
