The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating. As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more
Later Auden by Edward Mendelson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
The definitive study of Auden's poems from 1939 to 1973. "For a poet like myself, an autobiography is redundant," W. H. Auden wrote to a friend, "since anything of importance that happens to one is immediately incorporated, however obscurely, in a poem." This book is the history of Auden's poems, and of ...Show more
Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960 by Richard Layman (Editor); Julie M. Rivett (Editor); Josephine Hammett Marshall (Introduction by); Dashiell Hammett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
This work is compiled of the letters, both private and professional, of Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sam Spade. In his five great crime novels, all of them written between 1927 and 1935, Dashiell Hammett gave America a cast of immortal characters - Sam Spade, the Continental Op, and Nick and Nora Charle ...Show more
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
If there is any solace in growing older, it is that you will find yourself guffawing in hysterical recognition at the situations Nora Ephron describes, from the impossibility of trying to remember people's names at parties,to struggling with the new technology. You will find yourself rolling off th ...Show more
North Face of Soho - More Unreliable Memoirs Book 4 by Clive James
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser. | Reading Level: very good
At the very end of May Week Was in June, we left our hero sitting beside the River Cam one beautiful 1968 spring day, jotting down his thoughts in a journal. Newly married and about to leave the cloistered world of Cambridge academia for the racier, glossier life promised by Literary London, he was, so ...Show more
Henry Handel Richardson - The Letters, Volume 3: 1934-1946 by Clive Probyn (Editor); Bruce Steele (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: near fine
The publication of Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence is a major event in Australian scholarly publishing. There are approximately 1,500 unpublished manuscript letters to and from HHR, of which almost a thousand are in her own hand. They form a correspondence between Australia, England, Germany, I ...Show more
One of Ben's - A New Zealand Medley by Maurice Shadbolt
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Timebends: A Life by Arthur Miller
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
The poignant autobiography of Arthur Miller, following his life from boyhood in New York to celebrity status. It includes numerous frank accounts, such as the first staging of Death of a Salesman, and his marriage to Marilyn Monroe.
On Writing - A memoir of the craft by Stephen King
$14.00 NZD
Category: Writing | Reading Level: good-very good
This text offers a unique insight into the life of Stephen King. It explores what books and films influenced him as a young writer, his first idea for a story and the true-life tale that inspired Carrie. The book also takes the reader through all the basic skills of writing.
The Book of Martyrdom + Artifice - First Journals and Poems 1937-1952 by Allen Ginsberg
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
These are the earliest journals and never-before-published poems of legendary Beat Generation avatar and poet extraordinaire Allen Ginsberg.
James Baldwin - Artist on Fire by W. J. Weatherby
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
A long-time friend of the writer and social critic traces his development and journey from Harlem, to Paris, and finally back to America and discusses his lifelong dedication to articulate the intricacies of race relations and human struggle.
Searching for Schindler - A Memoir by Thomas Keneally
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
In 1980 Tom Keneally was in Beverley Hills returning from the Sorrento film festival where The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith had been showing. Looking for a new briefcase, Tom meets the Polish-Jewish Leopold Pfefferberg Page aka Poldek and his life for the next few years is taken over by this charismatic an ...Show more