Rory & Ita by Roddy Doyle
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells -largely in their own words - the story of his parents' lives from their first memories to the present. Born in 1923 and 1925 respectively, they met at a New Year's Eve dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods -t ...Show more
Hope's Boy by Andrew Bridge
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
From the moment he was born, Andrew Bridge and his mother, Hope, shared a love so deep that it felt like nothing else mattered. Trapped in desperate poverty and confronted with unthinkable tragedies, all Andrew ever wanted was to be with his mom. But as her mental health steadily declined, and with no o ...Show more
We'll Always Have Paris: Trying and Failing to be French by Emma Beddington
$8.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
As a bored, moody teenager, Emma Beddington came across a copy of French ELLE in the library of her austere Yorkshire school. As she turned the pages, full of philosophy, sex and lipstick, she realized that her life had one purpose and one purpose only: she needed to be French. Instead of skulking in he ...Show more
APRIL FOOL'S DAY by BRYCE COURTENAY
$8.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering behind this young man's life. Damon's story is one of lifelong struggle, his love for Celeste, the compassion of family, and a fight to the end for integrity.A testimony to the po ...Show more
A Fig at the Gate: The Joys of Friendship, Gardening and the Gaining of Wisdom by Kate Llewellyn
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
A deeply satisfying diary of gardening, family, friends, ageing and renewal. In A Fig at the Gate, author Kate Llewellyn, now in her seventies, embraces a new phase in her life, asking the question, 'How does one live well?' Following the joyful crafting of her gardens in the Blue Mountains (The Waterl ...Show more
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
$8.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her husband of fifteen years left her for Bob, a guy he met on Gay.com, but that same week a car accident left her injured. Needing a place to rest and pick up the pieces of her life, Rhoda packed her bags, cr ...Show more
That Oceanic Feeling by Fiona Capp
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
A captivating memoir that explores the lure of the sea and the author's love affair with surfing. For Fiona Capp, surfing had always been more than physical. It was a way of bringing together the life of the body and the life of the mind. But time took her in a different direction and she lost touch wit ...Show more
A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French
$12.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
This first novel by Dawn French is told through the eyes of a mother and her two teenage children. There's seventeen-year-old Dora, a stroppy teenager who's just come out of her first relationship (it lasted a whole six weeks) and who's longing to escape to university; her long-suffering mother, Mo, a c ...Show more
All the Money in the World FTI (previously Painfully Rich) by John Pearson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Inspired by the fortunes and misfortunes of the Getty family, whose most extraordinary and troubled episode - the kidnap and ransom of grandson Paul Getty - is now a major motion picture, directed by Ridley Scott, from a screenplay written by David Scarpa and starring Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg ...Show more
The Bravest Voices by Ida Cook
$12.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
This timeless memoir documents two sisters' bravery leading up to WWII - a singular historical account that shines a light on one of humanity's darkest hours. Ida and Louise Cook are two ordinary Englishwomen, seemingly destined never to stray from their quiet London suburb and comfortable jobs - Ida as ...Show more
Worth Fighting For by Lisa Niemi Swayze
$12.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
From the author of The Time of My Life (written with her husband Patrick Swayze) a remarkable, new account of grief, loss, caregiving, and moving on, with never before revealed stories of the Swayzes’ final months together. Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze first met as teenagers at his mother’s dance stud ...Show more
Instrumental by James Rhodes
$12.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised teenager or discovering an Adagio by Bach while in a hospital ward - such ...Show more