The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved in ...Show more
My Ear at His Heart - Reading my father by Hanif Kureishi
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Following the discovery of an unfinished manuscript written by his father, Kureishi looks back on his own development as a writer in the light of his father s unrealised literary ambitions A remarkable insight into the birth of a writer, and the moving discovery of family secrets. When Hanif Kur ...Show more
Genet - A Biography by Edmund White
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
FROM THE AUTHOR OF A BOY'S OWN STORY AND THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY'A superb introduction to the great novelist and playwright, vagabond, thief and convict, and to the brutal childhood from which he mined his remarkable vision' J G Ballard, Books of the Year, Sunday TimesInterviewing lovers, friends, publish ...Show more
Son of a Gun - A Memoir by Justin St. Germain
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath Includes an exclusive conversation between Alexandra Full ...Show more
Simone De Beauvoir by Deirdre Bair
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Vintage Lives | Reading Level: very good
During the last six years of her life, the philosopher, feminist, novelist and author of the landmark work, "The Second Sex", gave Deirdre Bair her unqualified co-operation and time. In interviews, she provided new insights and material that are central to understanding her life and work.
Touchstones: A memoir by James McNeish
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
A young man leaves home a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter, to travel the world. He returns to New Zealand changed almost beyond recognition. Along the way he meets nine people who influence his life and help make him the writer he becomes. James McNeish's Touchstones has a cast of characters who inclu ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - An Autobiography Volume 2 by Janet Frame
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writer New Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a poor b ...Show more
Brecht - A Biography by Ronald Hayman
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
What You Made of It - A Memoir, 1987-2020 by C K Stead
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
The third and final volume of C. K. Stead’s memoirs, from leaving the University of Auckland to write full-time until today. ‘These are my encounters and engagements with the world of books and writers, and of teaching and writing about them,’ C. K. Stead writes in this third and final volume of his mem ...Show more
From the Edge of the Sky: A Memoir by Maurice Shadbolt
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Compelling and revealing, From the Edge of the Sky continues the often hectic and sometimes poignant tale of the life and times of New Zealand's most distinguished storyteller. As lively as his novels, this new memoir teems with the often improbable New Zealanders who have coloured Shadbolt's life as a ...Show more
Anything That Burns You - A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet by Terese Svoboda
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Author, poet, and memoirist Svoboda takes the reader on a fascinating journey from Ridge's childhood as a newly arrived Irish immigrant in the grim mining towns of New Zealand, to her years as a budding writer in Sydney, Australia, to her migration to America and the cities of San Francisco, Chicago, an ...Show more
Never Enough - Places and people mainly by Frank Sargeson
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good- very good