Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
12.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. As a young man struggling to find his voice as a writer, George Orwell left the comfort of home to live in the impoverished working districts of Paris and London. He would document both the chaos and boredom of de ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
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 Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Hunt to Cure Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Save His Son by Tracie White; Ronald W. Davis
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Based on a viral article, the gripping medical mystery story of Ron Davis, a world-class Stanford geneticist who has put his career on the line to find the cure for chronic fatigue syndrome, the disease killing his son.
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust by James Comey
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
This will not come as a surprise to anyone, including even to the President's most ardent defenders: Donald Trump lied to me from the start Saving Justice is James Comey's searing memoir and guide to reclaiming truth in the institutions of justice, which have been so badly damaged under Trump. Whether o ...Show more
Untethered: A Memoir by Hayley Katzen
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
When urban academic Hayley Katzen moves to a remote Australian cattle property to live with her farmer girlfriend, she hopes, at last, to find home. But this is no happy-ever-after tree change. Lecture halls, law reform and the arts are replaced with castrating calves, shovelling manure, fire-fighting ...Show more
Make Life Beautiful by Shea McGee; Syd McGee
32.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Confidence in your craft is built by learning from one experience at a time. Now you can sharpen your skills, focus on your goals, and achieve your dreams with the inspirational, behind-the-scenes story of Syd and Shea McGee, the stars of the new Netflix series Dream Home Makeover. For the one million- ...Show more
Still Lives: A Memoir of Gaza by Marilyn Garson
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Four years, two wars and one most unlikely social enterprise. Marilyn Garson was an experienced aid professional who created jobs at the edge of war. In 2011, she was invited to move to the Gaza Strip. Friends warned her that nothing worked behind the Gaza blockade. Unable to resist that challenge, Mari ...Show more
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant ride, it's in those wildflowers dancing on their way to ...Show more
How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes. It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that made the late Hans Rosling, author of worldwide bestseller Factfulness, the most popular researc ...Show more
The Best of Me by David Sedaris
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
A lavish gift edition of David Sedaris's best stories, spanning his spectacular bestselling career. Hand-picked by David himself, these are stories that will make you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time, from "the funniest man alive" (Time Out New York). What could be a more tempting Christmas gif ...Show more
Like Father Like Son - A family story by Michael Parkinson
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
A look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father John William was, and remains, a family love stor ...Show more
Can You Make This Thing Go Faster? by Jeremy Clarkson
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Clarkson returns to set our off-kilter world to rights yet again, in a brand new, hilarious collection of stories and observations. From smug muesli-munchers to the dreariest parts of London, there has been plenty of reason to abandon all hope in these deeply troubling times. But with Clarkson in your c ...Show more