So Farewell Then by Wendy E. Cook
29.99 NZD
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The most intimate portrait of Peter Cook to date, Cook's first wife writes of her life with Britain's most ingenious and innovative comedian, and offering a side of him few have ever seen. To his many fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they never met. Over a decade since his untimely de ...Show more
The Sailor in the Wardrobe by Hugo Hamilton
36.99 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Following the huge success of The Speckled People, this is Hugo Hamilton's continuing story of his German-Irish upbringing in Dublin. Young Hugo longs to be released from the confused identity he has inherited from his German mother and Irish father, but the backdrop of his mother's shame at the hands o ...Show more
Don't Tell Mummy by Toni Maguire
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This heart-wrenching memoir from Toni Maguire tells the deeply moving story of an idyllic childhood that masked a terrible truth. Underneath her mother's gentility and her father's roguish charm lay horrifying secrets, which eventually led to their only child's near destruction. The first time her fathe ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
34.00 NZD
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed o ...Show more
House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe by Christina Lamb
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides.
House of Stone by Christina Lamb
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. In 2000, after Robert Mugabe had launched his controversial land reform programme, Nigel Hough held on to a fervent hope that he might keep hold of his ...Show more
Ghost Girl by Torey L. Hayden
16.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a stunning and poignant account of an extraordinary teacher's determination from the author of the No. 1 "Sunday Times" bestsellers "The Tiger's Child" and "One Child". Jadie never spoke, never laughed, never cried. She spent every waking hour locked in her own private world of shadows. But noth ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
47.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Didion is a writer's writer, admired and adored by a horde of famous magazine, film and book writers who continue to publicise her work. Didion is 'the First Lady of journalism' (The Observer) First published 2005. ...Show more
The Little Prisoner: How a Childhood Was Stolen and a Trust Betrayed by Jane Elliott
19.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
How a childhood was stolen and a trust betrayed.An inspirational true story of a four-year-old girl who fell into the power of a man whose evil knew no bounds. She encountered terrifying mental and physical torture from her psychopathic stepfather for a period of 17 years until she managed to break free ...Show more
Bigger than Hitler ? Better than Christ by Rik Mayall
26.99 NZD
33.00 (18% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
He invented alternative comedy with The Young Ones, he brought down the Thatcher administration with The New Statesman and he changed the face of global culture with his masterpiece Bottom. Not only was his number one single