Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
40.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Critically acclaimed, award-winning British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard details his childhood, his first performances on the streets of London, his ascent to worldwide success on stage and screen, and his comedy shows which have won over audiences around the world. Over the course of a thirty-year c ...Show more
The Speed of Sound by Thomas Dolby
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'The engaging, emotional, funny and surprising' (JJ Abrams) memoir of electronic music and technology pioneer Thomas Dolby Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee, whose 'She Blinded Me With Science' reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982, appeared in Breaking Bad, and was even covered b ...Show more
Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
26.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
On childhood holidays to the beach, the sun and surf kept Tim Winton outside in the mornings, in the water; the wind would drive him indoors in the afternoons, to books and reading. This ebb and flow of the day became a way of life.In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession w ...Show more
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
38.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In 2015 poet and writer Nina Riggs was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it metastasised later that year. She was thirty-eight years old, married to the love of her life and the mother of two small boys; her mother had died only a few months earlier from multiple myeloma. The Bright Hour- A Memoir of Li ...Show more
Good Muslim Boy by Osamah Sami
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Good Muslim Boy is Osamah Sami’s true depiction of his life as a young Muslim man. From his early life with his family in Iran during the Iran/Iraq war, to their migration to Australia, his tale is in turns comic and tragic, and explores the universal truths of growing up, falling in love and marriage, ...Show more
What Cancer Taught Me by Jake Bailey
30.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'None of us get out of life alive, so be gallant, be great, be gracious and be grateful for the opportunities you have.' Delivered from a wheelchair while undergoing cancer treatment, Jake Bailey's inspirational end of year speech as Head Boy at Christchurch Boys' High School made headlines around the ...Show more
The Button Box by Lynn Knight
28.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
I used to love the rattle and whoosh of my grandma's buttons as they scattered from their Quality Street tin. An inlaid wooden chest the size of a shoe box holds Lynn Knight's button collection. A collection that has been passed down through three generations of women: a chunky sixties-era toggle from a ...Show more
Centaur by Declan Murphy
38.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Coping with your own death, when you are not yet dead, is a strange thing...A natural on a horse since he was able to walk, and imbued with a pure love of riding, Declan Murphy became one of the most brilliant jockeys of his generation before his world came crashing down at the final hurdle of a race at ...Show more
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
39.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: General Adult
Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk - reliable if ...Show more
Boy's Don't Cry: A Story of Love, Depression and Men by Bryony Kimmings, Tim Grayburn
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Suicide is the single biggest killer of men aged 20-45 in the UK. Depression and undiagnosed mental illness are huge contributors to these deaths as they're often more difficult to diagnose in men. And those men don't tend to talk about the typical symptoms or visit their doctor. Meet Tim. For nearly a ...Show more
Injury Time (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time finds James in a ...Show more
Between Them - Remembering My Parents by Richard Ford
22.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his parents - an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family loveRichard Ford's parents volunteered little about their early lives - and he rarely asked. Later, he piec ...Show more