A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final years John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Pr ...Show more
Dante by Alessandro Barbero
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
A new biography of Dante from award-winning historian Alessandro Barbero and translator Allan Cameron.
Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts by Kathryn Harkup
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear - that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowled ...Show more
Free - Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
$38.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable coming of age story exploring the meaning of freedom - personal, collective, political - from an extraordinary new voice. Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost ...Show more
I Want You To Know We're Still Here - My family, the holocaust and my search for truth by Esther Safran Foer
$34.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
A moving and powerful inter-generational memoir about story and memory. Mine is a family of readers and writers. Our house is filled with books. There are contemporary design books on the coffee table in the living room, legal books in my husband's home office, and piles of children's books for when my ...Show more
Lolita in the Afterlife - On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century by Jenny Minton Quigley (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and bestsellerdom. More than sixty years later, this phenomenal novel generates as much buzz as it did when originally published. Central to countless issues at the forefront of our national discourse-- art an ...Show more
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an in ...Show more
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'Fascinating and intimate' OBSERVER'Lucid, distilled, honest' MAGGIE NELSON'Gorgeous, symphonic, tender' CARMEN MARIA MACHADOHow do you tell the real story of someone misremembered - an icon and idol - alongside your own?Jenn Shapland's celebrated debut is both questi ...Show more
Navigation: A Memoir by Joy Cowley
$45.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Reading Level: good
In the world of New Zealand children's books, the name Joy Cowley engenders enormous respect and affection. She has published dozens and dozens of children's trade books of all kinds, such as the Mrs Wishy Washy series, the award-winning Shadrach trilogy and Hunter. And she has written literally hundred ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, ...Show more
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate
$65.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
A dazzling new biography of Wordsworth's radical life as a thinker and poetical innovator, published to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth. William Wordsworth wrote the first great poetic autobiography. We owe to him the idea that places of outstanding natural beauty should become what he called ' ...Show more
Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3 by Deborah Levy
$26.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' Following the international critical and commercial success of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and b ...Show more