My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: The\Corfu Trilogy Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell.Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Ge ...Show more
Remainders of the Day - More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the ant ...Show more
Spare by The Duke of Prince Harry Sussex
59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century- two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their li ...Show more
Whatever Next? Lessons from an Unexpected Life by Anne Glenconner
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Bracing honesty, rare insight, and hilarious revelations from the author of the smash-hit New York Times bestselling memoir Lady in Waiting as she shares everything she's learned from her extraordinary and unexpected life. Lady in Waiting brought us royal magic, beguiling insight, and jaw-dropping stori ...Show more
Bushline - A Memoir by Robbie Burton
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Robbie Burton is a tramper, mountain-lover and book publisher, who has had a life-long infatuation with the wild places of New Zealand. In this memoir he recalls a childhood in which the natural world played a central part, and led to a youthful obsession with tramping, skiing and mountaineering. In hi ...Show more
Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, tea ...Show more
The Ponies at the Edge of the World by Catherine Munro
50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
I had drifted, gotten lost, strayed from the paths and places I love. I felt Shetland calling me, and in this moment, I began my slow, imperfect journey towards finding home.Catherine Munro transforms her life when she ups sticks and moves to the tiny island of Whalsay as part of her PhD, studying the h ...Show more
Diddly Squat - A Year on the Farm (#1 Diddly Squat) by Jeremy Clarkson
25.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to Clarkson's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bustling hedgerows, woodlands and natural springs. Jeremy always liked the idea being a farmer. But, while he was barrelling around the world having more fun with cars than was entirely reasonable, it seem ...Show more
Raiment - A Memoir by Jan Kemp
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhood to the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual e ...Show more
Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Linda Collins gets up on a Monday morning, dresses for work, makes coffee and goes into her daughter Victoria’s bedroom. Why hasn’t Vicky got up yet? It’s an important day: the start of the second term of her final year at school. Today she will hear her latest exam results. The bedroom is empty. So beg ...Show more
This Is Not How It Ends - How Rewriting your Story can Save Your Life by Jehan Casinader
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A BOOK OF HEALING AND HOPE BY NEW ZEALAND TV JOURNALIST JEHAN CASINADER As an award-winning TV journalist, Jehan Casinader told other people's stories - until he lost control of his own. Severely depressed, he tried everything - from mindfulness to massage; Prozac to Pilates. Was something missing? This ...Show more
Inge's War - A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler by Svenja O'Donnell
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera'A superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet, author of SpoilsWhat does it mean to be on the wrong side of history?Svenja's beautiful, aloof grandmother Inge never spoke about the past. All her family knew wa ...Show more