The Years by Annie Ernaux
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Shortlisted Man Booker International 2019 Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of workWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008, and ...Show more
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant - the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae rem ...Show more
The fight of my life by Barbara Clark
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Barbara Clark is a former nurse and mother of three children, two with special needs. She was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in February 2005. During her treatment, she found that there was a drug existing, Herceptin, that would double survival chances for her particular form of canc ...Show more
Theo Schoon: A Biography by Skinner Damian
$60.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Émigré artist Theo Schoon was fascinating, unorthodox, controversial, pioneering and at times reckless. His life intersected with important cultural periods and places, where what it meant to be modern in New Zealand were being debated andarticulated in art, literature, music and theatre.The art he pion ...Show more
There Are No Grown-Ups by Pamela Druckerman
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
AUTHOR OF THE NO.1 BESTSELLER FRENCH CHILDREN DON'T THROW FOODREVEALS THE THINGS IT TOOK HER FORTY YEARS TO LEARN- There are no grown-ups. Everyone else is winging it too. Does it ever feel like everyone - except you - is a bona-fide adult? Do you wonder how real grown-ups get to be so mysteriously ca ...Show more
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Winner, Honorable Mention, 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards, True Crime category Helen Garner won a 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for her outstanding contribution to international literature. 'Garner's book is superbly alive to the narrative dynamics of the case; she tells a grim story of unhappy ...Show more
This Life - A Novel by Quntos KunQuest; Zachary Lazar (Foreword by)
$35.76 NZD
Category: General Biography
This Life is the debut novel by Quntos KunQuest, a longtime inmate at Angola, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary. This marks the appearance of a bold, distinctive new voice, one deeply inflected by hiphop, that delves into the meaning of a life spent behind bars, the human bonds formed therein, a ...Show more
This Modern Love by Will Darbyshire
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. This Modern Love is a unique crowdsourced book of letters, stories, and photographs about the state of modern romance by YouTuber Will Darbyshire. 'Question 1. What would you say to your ex, without judgement?' Seeking closure after a tough break-up, Will Darbyshire was driven ...Show more
This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal by Octavia Bright
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A beautiful, brave, ideas-rich, open and electric reckoning - with addiction, loss, self and hope in your twenties and thirties I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn't make it stop. It rarely felt like a choice, though, of course, in some ways it was. It's only the death drive, my dear, Freud wo ...Show more
This Really Isn't about You by Jean Hannah Edelstein
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult life, because my father was dying from cancer. Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died. Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too. When J ...Show more
This Will Only Hurt a Little
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'Funny, refreshingly candid memoir about Hollywood, motherhood and BFFhood' Cosmopolitan 'Busy is a legit writer with a voice as clear as a bell' Tina Fey 'Judy Blume meets Karl Ove Knausgaard meets one brave woman from Arizona' Miranda JulyA memoir by the beloved comedic actress known for her roles o ...Show more
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Diaries of a Junior Doctor | Reading Level: very good
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more tha ...Show more