The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
$32.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, this book is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft.
Pimp: the Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim; Irvine Welsh (Introduction by)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Canons Ser.
In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the men in their lives to becoming a giant of the street ...Show more
The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her si ...Show more
Running with the Bulls : My Years With The Hemingways by Valerie Hemingway
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face to face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked into place. For the next two years, Valerie devoted her life to Hemingway and his wife, Mary, traveling ...Show more
Fashion Climbing: A New York Life by Bill Cunningham
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'I took to New York life like a star shooting through the heavens...' Bill Cunningham's first love was fashion but the big city came a close second. He left for New York aged nineteen, losing his family's support but enjoying the infinite luxury of freedom. Living on a scoop of Ovaltine a day, he would ...Show more
A Tokyo Romance - A Memoir by Ian Buruma
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments. Through his adventures in the world of avant-garde theatre, his encounters with carnival act ...Show more
Marilyn: A Biography by Norman Mailer
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Genius". ("The New York Times"). In 1973, Norman Mailer published "Marilyn", his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome. His work was immediately acclaimed - and an enduring bestseller, rumoured to have sold more copies than any of hi ...Show more
Dashiell Hammett - Man of Mystery by Sally Cline; Otto Penzler (Foreword by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Delivers the goods on Hammett, in brief. . . . An entertaining and informative read." --Library Journal Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery is the first new biography in thirty years on the man who changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, ...Show more
The Stranger on the Bridge: My Journey from Despair to Hope by Jonny Benjamin; Britt Pflüger; The Duke of Cambridge (Foreword by); Britt Pflüger
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 2008, 20 year-old Jonny Benjamin stood on Waterloo Bridge, about to jump. A stranger saw his distress and stopped to talk with him - a decision that saved Jonny's life. Fast forward to 2014 and Jonny, together with Rethink Mental Illness launch a campaign with a short video clip so that Jonny could f ...Show more
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a pre-read / used book. Good condition. slight creasing on spine SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a long time to come' Sunday Times 'Seldom ...Show more
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life by Michael Caine
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares wisdom and stories from his remarkable career in this "engrossing" memoir that "shines with positive energy" (Library Journal, starred review).One of our best-loved actors, Michael Caine has starred in over 100 films in his six-decade career, spanning classic movies ...Show more
Educated by Tara Westover
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't b ...Show more