Simon Mannering - Warrior by Gray Wynne
49.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Simon Mannering is one of elite sport's great enigmas. Since 2005 he has been a regular fixture in the Warriors and Kiwis rugby league teams and has captained both sides. He has the passion and drive of Brad Thorn and the consistency of Richie McCaw. He regularly leads tackle counts, always has the resp ...Show more
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
27.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilari ...Show more
Father and Son by Jonathan Raban
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
On 11 June 2011, three days short of his sixty-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban suffered a stroke which left him unable to use the right side of his body. Learning to use a wheelchair in a rehab facility outside Seattle and resisting the ministrations of the nurses overseeing his recovery, Raban began to ...Show more
The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-ac ...Show more
A Beer in the Loire by Tommy Barnes
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Tommy Barnes was at breaking point, frustrated by a dead-end job, fed up with renting in London and, to cap it all, failing to make it as a stand-up comedian. But he didn’t break - instead he made himself redundant and took off to France with girlfriend Rose to pursue his dream of brewing beer. Settled ...Show more
Notes From Inside by Anne Thurston
30.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Notes from Inside is a narrative memoir about abuse, intergenerational trauma and mental illness – but it is also about how Anne Thurston managed to address and eventually cope with those issues. Her own stories are positioned in relation to those of other women in her family – both ancestors and descen ...Show more
Tell No One by Brendan Watkins
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A stunning memoir of one man's search for his birth parents, which uncovered an astonishing global scandal at the heart of the Catholic Church.
The Farmer's Wife by Helen Rebanks
45.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A gorgeous portrait of Helen Rebanks's Lake District life. As dawn breaks on the farm, Helen Rebanks makes a mug of tea, relishing the few minutes of quiet before the house stirs. Within the hour the sounds of her husband, James, and their four children will fill the kitchen. There are also six sheepdo ...Show more
Ringside: A Tale of Music and Mayhem From the Man Behind Rock and Roll Superstars Cold Chisel by Rod Willis
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A tale of music and mayhem from the man who made Cold Chisel rock and roll superstars.
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir by Sly Stone
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a trailblazer who created a new kind of music, mixing Black and white, male and female, funk and rock; penned some of the most iconic anthems of the 1960s and 70s, from "Everyday People" to "Family Affair"; and electrified audiences with a ...Show more
Delight by J. B. Priestley
24.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.' Dolly Alderton 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius.' Dame Judi Dench 'My apology, my little bit of p ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more