Gone to New York - Adventures in the city by Ian Frazier
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Frazier makes us fall in love with America's greatest city all over again just the way he did In the early 1970s, the writer Ian Frazier left a small town in Ohio to move to a loft in lower Manhattan. Gone to New York is Frazier's account of the city over the thirty years he's lived there, a boo ...Show more
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
$4.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
Author, screenwriter and poet Maya Angelou distills the wisdom of a lifetime into this inspiring collection of down-to-earth essays about matters timely and timeless. The author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings celebrates the inimitable strength of her womanhood and the power of the word to surpass al ...Show more
The Voice is All - The lonely victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
In The Voice is All, Joyce Johnson, author of her classic memoir, Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac, brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities.ÿ Looking more deeply tha ...Show more
Maximum City - Bombay lost and found by Suketu Mehta
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Winner Of The 2005 Kiriyama Prize For Non-FictionSuketu Mehta Left Bombay At The Age Of 14. Twenty-One Years Later He Returned To Rediscover The City. The Result Is This Stunning, Brilliantly Illuminating Portrait Of The Megalopolis And Its People-A Book, Seven Years In The Making, That Is As Vast, As D ...Show more
This I Believe - An A to Z of a Writer's Life by Carlos Fuentes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
In a series of inspired meditations and polemics, Fuentes explores and celebrates subjects as disparate as 'Balzac' and 'Beauty'; 'Reading' and 'Relaxation'; 'Sex' and 'Shakespeare'. The essays are woven together with the familiar Fuentes themes of politics, time and language and through them runs the v ...Show more
Sorry, I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Peter Bland
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
An evocative and intriguing memoir following Peter's boyhood in the UK, experiencing the war years, living with the 'total stranger' who was his father and enduring the premature loss of both parents. It takes him to near destitution before he immigrated to New Zealand, a place that struck him with its ...Show more
The Crane Wife - A Memoir in Essays by C J Hauser
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander Chee Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up to live somebody else's life. In this intimate, frank and funn ...Show more
Joseph Anton - A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children, which was awarded the Best of the Booker Prize in 1993, comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that woul ...Show more
The Price of Illusion - A Memoir by Joan Juliet Buck
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris and "one of the most compelling personalities in the world of style" (New York Times) comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris- ...Show more
Frood - The True Story of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Jem Roberts
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: good-very good
As a wise ape once observed, space is big - vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly so. However, if you look too closely at space, it becomes nothing but lumps of rock and sundry gases. Sometimes it's necessary to take a step back, and let a few billion years go by, before any of the true wonder and scope of th ...Show more
William Faulkner - The Making of a Novelist by Martin Kreiswirth
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Martin Kreiswirth challenges the accepted notion that The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner's fourth and possibly finest novel, represented an unprecedented turning point in the writer's literary career, a quantum leap in his imaginative development. He argues that Faulkner's earlier work, both published and ...Show more