Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
14.99 NZD
50.99 (70% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angela's Ashes and 'Tis. In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City. Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a y ...Show more
Motorcycle Diaries of Che Guevara by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The film tie-in edition of the established modern classic. In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on 'La Poderosa', the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Che Guevara. Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these a ...Show more
David Beckham : My Side by David Beckham with Tom Watt
25.99 NZD
27.95 (7% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
He may live in Madrid but he continues to make front-page headlines. This is David Beckham's own story of his career to date, for Manchester United, Real Madrid and England, and of his childhood, family and private life. Featuring David's first full account of a turbulent year in Spain, on and off the f ...Show more
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union', offers his first major work of non-fiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels. A shy manifesto; an impractical handbook; the tr ...Show more
Bertie, May and Mrs Fish: Country Memories of Wartime by Xandra Bingley
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a lyrical, evocative and wonderfully original wartime memoir about life on a farm in the Cotswolds, seen through the eyes of a child. Bertie, May and Mrs Fish is Xandra Bingley's account of her childhood on a Cotswold farm, set against the backdrop of the Second World War and its aftermath. Bing ...Show more
Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
24.99 NZD
29.99 (16% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a sometimes brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic, while his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who has been marked by the Nazi past, speaks to them in German. He himself want ...Show more
Mishima's Sword : Travels in search of a Samurai legend by Christopher Ross
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1970, Japan's most famous writer, Yukio Mishima, cut open his stomach and was then beheaded with his own antique sword. His anachronistic suicide has been called many things: a desperate heroic gesture; a work of art; a political protest; the antics of a madman. But, which is correct? And, w ...Show more
Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
24.99 NZD
26.99 (7% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion. After seven years in a convent, which she left, dismayed by its restrictions, an experience recounted in 'Through the Narrow Gate', Karen Armstrong struggled to establish herself in a new wa ...Show more
Help Yourself: How You Can Find Hope, Courage and Happiness by Dave Pelzer
30.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"A Child Called It", an autobiographical book, chronicles Pelzer's harrowing experience of child abuse. His follow-up book to that one was "The Lost Boy" and concerned his life in foster homes. Dave Pelzer willed himself to overcome the worst life had to offer (his case of child abuse was one of the wor ...Show more
Robert Louis Stevenson : A Biography by Claire Harman
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The short life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction: his travels, illness, struggles to become a writer, relationships with his volatile wife and step-family, friendships and quarrels have fascinated readers for over a century. In his time he was both ...Show more
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
28.99 NZD
29.99 (3% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
At the age of four Marya Hornbacher looked in a mirror and decided she was fat. At nine, she was bulimic. At 12, she was anorexic. By the time she was 18, she'd been hospitalized five times, once in a mental asylum. Her doctors and her parents had given up on her; they were watching her die. But Marya d ...Show more