Free - Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
$38.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable coming of age story exploring the meaning of freedom - personal, collective, political - from an extraordinary new voice. Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost ...Show more
I Want You To Know We're Still Here - My family, the holocaust and my search for truth by Esther Safran Foer
$34.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
A moving and powerful inter-generational memoir about story and memory. Mine is a family of readers and writers. Our house is filled with books. There are contemporary design books on the coffee table in the living room, legal books in my husband's home office, and piles of children's books for when my ...Show more
Lolita in the Afterlife - On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century by Jenny Minton Quigley (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and bestsellerdom. More than sixty years later, this phenomenal novel generates as much buzz as it did when originally published. Central to countless issues at the forefront of our national discourse-- art an ...Show more
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an in ...Show more
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'Fascinating and intimate' OBSERVER'Lucid, distilled, honest' MAGGIE NELSON'Gorgeous, symphonic, tender' CARMEN MARIA MACHADOHow do you tell the real story of someone misremembered - an icon and idol - alongside your own?Jenn Shapland's celebrated debut is both questi ...Show more
Navigation: A Memoir by Joy Cowley
$45.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Reading Level: good
In the world of New Zealand children's books, the name Joy Cowley engenders enormous respect and affection. She has published dozens and dozens of children's trade books of all kinds, such as the Mrs Wishy Washy series, the award-winning Shadrach trilogy and Hunter. And she has written literally hundred ...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
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, ...Show more
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate
$65.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
A dazzling new biography of Wordsworth's radical life as a thinker and poetical innovator, published to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth. William Wordsworth wrote the first great poetic autobiography. We owe to him the idea that places of outstanding natural beauty should become what he called ' ...Show more
Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3 by Deborah Levy
$26.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' Following the international critical and commercial success of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and b ...Show more
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath. *A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED PRIZE 2021* Determined not ...Show more
Shame by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the 12 year old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. Wi ...Show more