A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his mother's ...Show more
Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando by Stefan Kanfer
59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Marlon Brando will never cease to fascinate us: for his triumphs as an actor ("On the Waterfront", "The Godfather", "Last Tango in Paris"), as well as his disasters; for the power of the screen portrayals he gave, and for his turbulent, tumultuous personal life. Seamlessly intertwining the man and the w ...Show more
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation in New York City. A few years later he discovered folding bikes, and starting taking them with him on music tour overseas, and experienced a sense of liberation as he pedaled around many of the world's ...Show more
Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Syd Barrett was the lead guitarist, vocalist, and principle songwriter in the original line up of Pink Floyd. During his brief time with the band (1966-68) he was the driving force behind the unit. After he left the band he made just two further solo albums which were both released in 1970, before withd ...Show more
Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from "Closing Time" to "Orphans", "Lowside of the Road" is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and ou ...Show more
Family Romance: A Memoir by John Lanchester
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Family Romance is a beautifully written memoir in which John Lanchester joins the dots of his parents' history, their extraordinary secrets and the shape of their shared life. From his grandparents' beginnings in rural Ireland and colonial Rhodesia, Lanchester navigates through his parents lives: his ...Show more
Family Romance : A Memoir by John Lanchester
28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of "Fragrant Harbour", John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets - from his grandparents' life in colonial Rhodesia to his mother's time as a nun - with clear-eyed compassion. First published 2007. ...Show more
Lucia in the Age of Napoleon by Andrea di Robilant
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1797, Lucia, a beautiful statesman's daughter was married off to a powerful Venetian, only to be caught up in the turbulence of Napoleon's march. This is her story, from dazzling young hostess in Habsburg Vienna, lady-in-waiting at the court of Prince Eugene de Beauharnais in Milan, single mother in ...Show more
Coltrane by Ben Ratliff
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
John Coltrane, who died aged 40 in 1967, is one of half a dozen truly fundamental contributors to the history of jazz. No-one - not Armstrong, Ellington or Monk, nor even Charlie Parker - inspires quite the same mystique or continuing intensity of fascination. No young saxophonist of the past forty year ...Show more
Lucia in the Age of Napoleon by Andrea di Robilant
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1797, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a Venetian statesman, was married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families of the once glorious maritime Republic. They were a golden couple in Venice's twilight years. But Lucia's life was suddenly trans ...Show more
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
32.99 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This book brings together Alan Bennett's diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, together with hilarious accounts of his many television plays, notably An Englishman Abroad and A Pr ...Show more
The History Boys (Film edition) by Alan Bennett & Nicholas Hytner (adapted from the original stage play by Alan Bennett)
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's screenplay, staff room rivalry ...Show more