The Color of Water - A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "l ...Show more
James K Baxter - A Portrait by W H Oliver
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
The Life of James K.Baxter by Frank McKay
$18.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
James K. Baxter (1926-1972), one of the major English language poets of this century, was a man of contradictions. This biography records his many faces and attempts to illustrate his popularity. The text was the recipient of the New Zealand Book Award for Non-Fiction in 1991.
R A K Mason by J E Weir
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Series: New Zealand Writers and Their Work Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Letters of Max Beerbohm - 1892-1956 by Max Beerbohn; Rupert Hart-Davis (ed)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
The Gentle Barbarian - The Life and Work of Turgenev by V S Pritchett
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
John Mulgan by Paul Day
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Series: New Zealand Writers and Their Work | Reading Level: very good
To the Is-Land - An Autobiography Volume One by Janet Frame
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good
The first part of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, this text chronicles her childhood and adolescence, spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Illustrated Kipling by Rudyard Kipling; Neil Philip (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Hello Darkness by Peter Wells
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Description: It's now a year exactly since my urologist told me I had an aggressive cancer that was incurable. I was rushed into hospital and thus began a year of chemotherapy, radiation and all the ups and downs of a sickness that arrived in my life with the noise and terror of an old fashioned train. ...Show more
In My Father's House by Sean Dunne
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Seán Dunne’s mother died at the age of thirty-three, when he was four years old. In My Father’s House, his account of the trials and tests of a childhood in Waterford in the 1960s, touched a communal heart when it was published in 1991, and became a bestseller. This eloquent testimony to one fractured f ...Show more