Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935. Now this fragmentary moder ...Show more
The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carre was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait ...Show more
Everywhere an Oink Oink by David Mamet
$58.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies. David Mamet went to Hollywood on top--a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a ve ...Show more
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
$32.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer, Getting Lost is a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair. Getting Lost is the diary kept by ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Europe - Station to Station by Redmer Yska
$50.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Reading Level: very good
Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfield's Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfield's journals and letters, Redmer Yska traces her restless journey in Europe, seeking out the pla ...Show more
Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson, Tuulikki Pietila
$33.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated there to live, p ...Show more
One Italian Summer by Pip Williams
$28.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
A warm, poignant and often hilariously self-deprecating story of a family's search for a better way of living Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food, and spend more time with the people they love. But jobs and responsibilities got in the way: their ...Show more
Russell (The Great Philosophers) by Ray Monk
$19.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Series: The\Great Philosophers Ser.
'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts' Bertrand Russell'Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know'Bertrand Russell discovered mathematics at the age of eleven. It was, he recalled, a transpor ...Show more
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
The official biography of the award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate. 'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.' At the time of his death in 201 ...Show more
The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
$50.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
These are the complete journals of Sylvia Plath. "Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and ...Show more
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Donna ...Show more